GM has been slow to develop electric vehicles? You mention the EV1, the Volt, and an EV S10, but don’t care to mention the Bolt, which has sold over 64,000 in the US alone and over 84,000 globally. They’ve sold almost 6,000 Bolts this year. You even quoted the article stating that they are currently developing 20…

Ah, you’re right. I should have said “shit person.” It wasn’t necessarily a cop. Why are you incapable of just admitting they did a shitty thing? You continually defend them and their actions.

Death on the spot

You don’t think tires being slashed on CARS is notable news for a CAR site?

Following direct orders doesn’t remove the fact that they are individuals with (assumingly) fully functional brains, capable of making decisions for themselves and determining right from wrong. Going around and slashing car tires because one shit cop told the rest of the shit cops to do it is an inexcusable defense.…

They’re not quite as bad as I described, but your mobility has been dramatically reduced because you have to find places to set up a trailer and you can’t get it down/up nearly the same mountain trails. Dirt roads? Sure. two tracks or mild trails? Probably not.

the thing that they haven’t figured out yet is that people don’t enjoy towing a house made of toothpicks and newspaper

I have been saying this for YEARS. I’m upset with you for mentioning it on Jalopnik because now everybody else is going to realize that a converted ambulance is THE best vehicle for this job.

I think the biggest factor would be, is the person on unemployment single, or live in a dual income household. If one person was making $100k/year and didn’t lose their job, but the other person was only making $30k/year, is now unemployed, and has been getting an extra $2400/month for unemployment, I don’t think…

Well then they learned something, didn’t they lol Old GM would have stayed until they all died

They didn’t have to leave Europe, they sold Opel. The profits from Opel in Europe wasn’t enough to justify the cost, so why not sell it and have a wider profit margin? And they made cuts of ~14k people a year and a half ago so that in the event of an economic downturn (which happened significantly worse than anyone…

Why does Mazda even offer a 3-sedan? Why not just save the production costs and just make only the 3-HB? The model only sold 50k units in North America in 2019 with sedan and hb combined, seems like a loss to even offer a model with that low of sales as two dramatically different body options.

What I meant by that was giving people the freedom of not being afraid to spend money. If someone was worried about paying their bills, they wouldn’t be looking to buy a car, or anything else unnecessary. They’d be spending very little so they make sure that if things get worse, they’re able to survive. I didn’t mean…

so what you’re saying is that people making under $870/week before unemployment are now making more than they did before? Great, thanks for restating my point. Is this going to be bigger in the used market, yeah, nobody said it wouldn’t. But are there now more people, that were previously unable to even think about a…

You act like people didn’t already get loans for vehicles while making $35k/year. I think you’d be surprised at how little money you actually have to make to get approved for a new car loan, especially if you come in with 10% for a down payment. And maybe they haven’t bought a car yet, but when they get back to work…

Uh, what? Are you trying to say that $2400/month isn’t enough to lease/buy a new car? lol You’re fucking delusional.

they’re pinching pennies by not planning to return employee’s salaries or pay them back the “deferred” 20%. They’re just going to say “eh, sorry, we wish we could pay you, but things didn’t go as planned. Maybe next year!”

GM must have learned something because they haven’t laid off anybody since the start of the pandemic/economic collapse (aside from the plant workers that couldn’t work because the plants have been closed, but they’re back to work now). Say what you will about GM, but they got in front of this issue early, before the…

GM hasn’t laid off anybody since the big cut at the beginning of 2019 where they let go approximately 14,000 workers between blue and white collar positions. During the pandemic, they’ve “deferred” salaries 20% and haven’t even laid off contract employees, just reduced they’re work week from 5 to 4 days (20%) to…

that being said, a lot of people put out of work that were making minimum wage before, got the extra $600/week for unemployment, and some of them have been making close to $1000/week to not work. Combine that with not being able to go anywhere or spend it, they likely were able to save quite a bit of money for a down …