OK that makes more sense. So they are pretty much just trying to paint a line around the fire to block the spread. But even then it seems to be grossly inefficient if each flight can only drop so little coverage.

they demanded manufacturers “share” technology and buy in country in order to be able to sell there

According to your chart, their current per vehicle subsidies is $4700, which is significantly lower than the US government’s EV credits, and either lower than or in line with the EU countries.

Competition is awesome.

This is America. The simplest explanation is always the right one. And the simplest explanation is racism.

I get it that you don’t want to lose your job. Nobody wants to lose their job. But why is your particular job sacred? What about the people working in the garment industry? Why weren’t they protected? What about the people who used to build furniture? Why weren’t they protected? The people assembling computers? The…

So when the several million people employed either directly or indirectly by the auto industry are no longer employed

Manufacturing jobs , as a percentage of total employment, has been on a continuous decline for the last 70+ years:

that trip would be anywhere from an hour and 1/2 to an hour 45 min

On Sunday, traffic was down an estimated 18.5 percent

Shouldn’t they be dumping the retardant at a slower rate so it covers a larger expanse of ground? At this rate they would have to take 1000's of flights to make a dent in the fire.

BTW it’s possible that you could be getting a bigger than $20k discount off new. Lucid cut the price of its base model by something like $8-9000 last year. So it’s possible that the  original selling price was quite a bit more than $70k

Yup. It is just a superbly well thought out and well made car. By the same token, Lucid is losing way too much money per car to survive. If other car maker buys Lucid, I don’t see how it can survive as an independent going forward.

The knobs are probably ergonomically best suited for steering wheels which are more horizontal than vertical.ie. bus steering wheels.

The news reports about the Samurai rolling over. That was what killed the Samurai.

Weren’t there always bypasses for the tougher obstacles? That’s not a new thing.

Seems like the American fake news media defeated the Suzuki Samurai.

It looks surprisingly good, except for some small details- like the lower grill which looks tacked on and unnecessary, and the tacked on fender flares

If they were losing money selling these cars, they would have stopped selling them years ago. I am sure the tooling is all paid for after all these years, and they are making money on each unit. The problem is, the ‘business class’ is not happy with making a steady whatever <5% profit margin. They think you are a…

I see zero resemblance between the Rio’s headlight and foglight and the EV6's.