Have any national car companies started in 21st century America succeeded? I’m no fanboy, but you have to admit that it’s a pretty toxic environment to try to build anything from scratch in the automotive sphere. I tend to marvel that they’ve accomplished anything at all.

The weakness of the primary market is why the secondary market stays high. There’s just not that many out there used  

What pedestrian safety standards are there? Painting the crosswalks a brighter color? Automatic popup barriers that prevent vehicles from proceeding through the intersection when the crosswalk sign is on?

Yay someone that gets that correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation. 

And distracted walking.  I remember in 2010/2011 timeframe, one of my friends got internet on his phone, and was one of the first I knew personally with it.  2009 was before widespread “connectivity”.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say distracted driving is probably more of a cause than the vehicle being driven. 

If you opt for the +M+ Package ($4500), it comes with a small box of M badges for the dealer to apply at your discretion.

It doesn’t have those.

Paying them back wouldn’t be financially advantageous to Tesla but it isn’t very really detrimental either, it’s a very small portion of the purchase price for the cars and they literally can’t build them fast enough. Tesla is still new to this business and may have re-evaluated the benefits of having a very low…

So am I allowed to drive around alone in a sedan or do I always need 3 additional people?

The hell kind of body shape do you have where your feeling restricted in an American pick up?

I’ve been banned from recommending Jeeps.

Its super convoluted. Super convoluted. You’ve got every tier of supplier and the location of final assembly to account for. The right answer is *every* manufacturer will be affected.

Yea except a shit ton of GMs are produced in Mexico and Canada, along with Ford and FCA. Look at a recent survey of the most “American” cars on sale today. 4 out of 10 are Hondas. So they’re not at all exempt seeing as how the human dumpster fire has threatened to impose tariffs on them (CA and MX) and has an…

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Chevy made a Lexus RX and called it a Blazer.

Everything you have said is true. Everything I said in my post is also true.

I miss having an old shitty car people hate riding in, it’s the best excuse to not waste gas on them and their poor opinions.

The correct answer is “when I am not consuming alcohol”

It’s not often that Tom gets outdone on these, but new guy Mack Hogan is off to a good start. The ISF is the most powerful, most reliable car of this list.