“In fact, the automaker loses more than $32,000 on every car that rolls off the production line in Normal, Illinois, as Automotive News reports:”

Remember Mitsubishi Circa 1996? They actually made some great vehicles. That line up included the Eclipse, 3000GT, Galant (with awesome vr-4 variant!), Montero, and even a near-luxury Diamante. That’s not even getting into the forbidden fruit EVO III.

I think it’s more than American roads are long and straight compared to European roads and low-powered subcompacts are especially terrible when tasked at cruising at 80mph. If you only have $18k to spend, it’s usually a far better experience to get a 3-5 year old compact class vehicle like the Civic or even a mid-size…

What happens when a job goes pear shaped due to a rusted bolt or whatever and renders the car both inoperable and unable to be removed from the lift? 

I think a lot of what people call “handling” is two different things:

It may matter which Miata you are talking about. An NA Miata is basically a 1980s car with grip levels that were good for the 1980s. The stock tire size (and current selection in that size) are such that you aren’t going to have much mechanical grip.

Setting aside this vehicle China factor, vans really are the best vehicle for ultra-luxury due to interior volume. There’s room for full blown lazy-boy style seat with plenty of headroom when you have a low floor and high ceiling. SUVs have too high a floor and sedans have too low a ceiling.

Many companies have policies against buying add-on items like priority boarding. I wouldn’t want to turn an expense report with stuff like that to my boss because there is no real business purpose. 

A little unclear from the article, but it sounds like it’s basically: “Toyota believes hydrogen power will win the hydrogen division in LeMans.” Well duh.

I think the real reasoning is a lot more basic than that. When Trump was running against Biden, Musk made the calculation that Trump was going to win and wanted to ingratiate himself. Now that Trump is running against Harris, it’s looking like a totally different race and Musk doesn’t want to be in the crosshairs of a…

I looked pretty seriously at S2000s circa 2015. If I recall correctly, anything under $10k was a salvage title or 150k+ miles. A reasonably clean AP1 was ~$12,500 and mint one was closer to $20k.

I think people would be a lot more willing to trash talk Senna and Schumacher if they had not met tragic fates. 

Sort of. It’s more trouble than it’s worth for an insurance company to repair it at a shop to 100% condition. There are times when a totaled vehicle is worth bringing back on the road:

I’d rather a salvage title vehicle than one with terminal cancer like that one. 

It depends on the individual. My grandfather is almost 90 and is still a pretty good driver. Zero collisions in 30+ years. He even changes his own oil. On the other hand, my grandmother was terrifying to drive with by her early 80s.

I don’t think the quality is any worse than before, but you are right the lack of controls are a turn-off. Regardless, the Model Y sales are likely being hurt at least in part by the model receiving no substantial updates for over 5 years (and the ownership of the company being what it is). 

“Brauer predicted last year that EV market share would reach around 7 percent and then stall, based on a study of U.S. consumer preferences by iSeeCars.”

This is why you never check bags. 

I’m sure these folks are familiar with the basic math of the fuel requirements. Required orbital velocity actually decreases with altitude. The amount of fuel required to boost into a higher orbit is a small fraction of what it takes to get it there in the first place.

No specific number. I will spend what it takes to get what I want in a car. That said, I have no taste for supercars or even high-end cars like Porsches when purchased new. For newer cars, there are a pretty wide range of options in the ~$60k range (in 2024 dollars), so it would take something pretty unusual to get me…