I’ve said it before but I want a new Ford Probe. Long-ass hatchback with more cargo space than a crossover with the seats folded down that’s fun as hell to drive. Too bad Ford doesn't even make cars any more.

And he was so salty he did this gem/turd:

If you’re ever in a position where you need to replace one of these (for example if you own a Civic and one comes off the $200 engine splash plate) you can do it with some hardware from home depot and a nail to punch (or drill) a hole in the sheet metal:

As dumb as thede markups are, consumers will pay them. A cousin of mine just paid a 5k markup on a RAV4. Like wtf.

The styling looks kind of nice on the SUV. They are probably not worried about marketing if they only want to sell 100 cars a month. I bet their marketing is focused on first/second generation Chinese-Americans who will be less skeptical of a Chinese manufacturer.

They should do the spine batteries down the middle and some in the engine bay/trunk. Would be a good case for hub motors - Elaphe M700s are 100HP each so they could do real wheel drive 200HP and not sacrifice the size of the car.

The 3rd party charging network is starting to look good here in CA now, so it’s running about 5-8 years behind Tesla as far as I can tell. Still, EVs are most convenient to those who have somewhere they can install a high voltage at home charger,  even in CA. 

It cost $338,550,995 adjusted for inflation to build the thing in the first place, and it's going to cost almost that much to restore it. Seems like a waste.

I don’t work there either, but clearly there’s no way you’re going to believe that. As for the truck they’re literally doing rides today with their beta builds - you can see for yourself. 

He accused me of being a company shill. I’ve been all over gawker just as long as anyone and he can fuck right off. 

Nonsense - I don’t work there. They only have a few hundred employees, and I’m not even defending the company in the post. Their management has been laughably incompetent, as demonstrated by their delayed schedule, shittastic race planning, and hemorrhaging money. But that doesn’t mean that’s the only thing to talk…

Those statements were made June 15th during a live interview with the Automotive Press Association, and the clarification was made the next day. This sale was four months ago. They’re completely unrelated.

I’ve had my kinja account since 2013 and have been reading for well over a decade - I’ve been on here as long as you have. 

I’m annoyed at Erik’s coverage of LMC in particular. Erik doesn’t cover LMC like he covers other companies - I went through Erik’s article history, and these are the posts he has made about LMC:

If you want to report on Lordstown why not go there and test drive their beta builds which are out all week for that purpose? Then you can tell us how much you hate the truck in addition to the company.

This isn’t even news - it’s blatant click-bait. These transactions are publicly available on the Lordstown site, and have been for months. This is the Richard Schmidt one:

I feel like Tesla is trying to buck the industry refresh/redesign cycle on the asthetic components of their cars and it’s kind of a risky move. The auto industry didn’t do model refresh and redesigns in a vacuum - consumers like having something that looks modern and new. Tesla can't sell the same looking model S and…

Practically every other article for weeks has been sucking ford’s dick, what credibility do they still have to lose?

This. These articles pop up literally once every 3 months because Tesla basically only makes three deliveries to Norway each year, and it’s not enough for demand. You can search and find the exact same article for basically every major EV, including the Etron, the Polestar, and the id3. I guess as long as we all click…

Re: Lordstown, they were always planning on spending the vast majority of that this year (plan was 200 million cash on hand at end of year) on retooling and production runup. Reducing their estimate by 1200 cars reduces incoming cash by 62 million, and they had to in-house frames (increased R&D) and purchase their…