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I equally blame the manufacturers, only interested in profits, stock valuations and the CEO’s salaries, and the government’s poor to no, or puppet, oversight. Whatever the reason, we’ve sure forgotten how to build quite a few things:

America can’t build anything anymore. It’s what happens when finance takes over. Engineers should should be running these companies.

Aston Martin Rapide

obligatory lexus predator grill reference:

The 1974 Mustang - YIKES

It’s not my fault the auto industry has stripped me of my optimism.

I missed the part where it’s going to be an active lifestyle crossover with an available EV version.

Yeah, the world is ripe with 15k Model X.  Otherwise i agree.

Once when my wife was on a trip to take care of a sick acquaintance in NoVA, she noticed that it appeared every florist in the area had invested in Gen1 Scion xB’s.  They had taken out the rear seats (and some, the front passenger), installed flat load floors and sometimes shelves, and were zipping around with…

Yeah, no one wants to pile the highway miles on in an Astro. I have one at work and the ride is brutal unless it’s got a load. Loud,noisy, completely ridiculously unsafe, abysmal fuel economy , it goes on. It’s a good size and has barn doors arethe only redeeming features really.

Here in California most roofers seem to bid from Google Earth. We had to reroof at work and 8 buildings was too much for me to do alone so we took bids. I think one company came out and walked around,everyone else was “I’m looking at your site right now, it’s blah blah squares etc. and we would charge x amount“

It’s also long view vs. short run - Toyota set out with an identity that was about creating reliable cars and they’ve focused on that differentiator, avoiding new tech until it was fully tested. Over decades they’ve stayed true to that idea and guess what - their cars sell for more, they have a ton of brand…

See here’s the thing: Japanese cars don’t require maintenance.

The problem is not capitalism. You can’t do shit without capitalism, ask the Soviet Union. Oh that’s right you can’t.

Well, some industries just aren’t evolving to cope with changing economic pressures (looking at you, Blockbuster) and are beyond the ability of any generation to “save” them.

Also, while we all love the car industry, many of these industries are not actually worth having around, and unlike boomers, millennials don't want what they're selling.

“Living wage? No thanks, Stalin.” -Fucking Boomers.

A further problem is that as those boomers are retiring/dying, their positions aren’t being filled. Either their pay rates are receiving substantial downgrades, or the positions are being eliminated entirely, so millenials (now in their 30s, for the most part) have no real income ladder to climb. It sucks. A lot.

We can’t do that, that would be communism!