joshbailey
Josh Bailey
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I don’t know what the current numbers are. In the mid-2000s, the $2,000/vehicle for UAW (including current and retired UAW members) was accurate for Ford and believed to be a bit low for GM.  After the 2007 contracts began to shift that to the UAW by way of the VEBA, I believe the cost differences are largely worked

It costs more for Ford and Chevy to make each vehicle than the other companies, even though they are using cheaper components, mainly because the employee costs are 44% higher.

So, is this saying that poor-urban communities are hotter? Poor-urban communities are often people of color but unless white poor urban communities are, for some reason, cooler than non-white poor urban communities then this is a case of economic segregation not ethnic segregation. But fuck poor white people, right?

Tech moves so fast that it doesn’t make sense to pay too much for a TV because it will be outdated in a few years, unless you’re made of money or a fanatic.

The Problem in Germany that leads to a lot of crashes is people just pulling out when they shouldn’t. P.ex. to let somebody merge in, without checking their rear mirror twice, thereby misjudging the speed of everybody approaching them.
Or, they are so full of self-justice (don’t know how to put it into correct english

I was reading the comments and see there’s some relative confusion. As someone who both owns a Corvette and loves to deal with the “Corvette numbers” I looked into it a little more.

I think you underestimate how many of us were kids when that movie came out and how big of an impact it had on getting people into cars. That movie has an enormous amount to do with 90s Japanese sports cars going up in value recently, much of which is because people who saw that movie as kids can finally afford to buy

I just wish they’d get back to the believable, semi-realistic, small scale stuff that the first movie was. The impact that movie had on the car scene in those days was insane. 

Not the logoI was expecting from you, $Kaycog

Getting turned down by every other lender on the planet and finally begging for $9b line of credit from the government is “clever financing”? Ford was in bad shape earlier than GM or Chrysler, so they took money before TARP was really a thing. Then, when GM, GMAC, and Chrysler got into the TARP program, Ford was all

I’m speechless, but with 36,895 comments, I haven’t always been speechless.  This post is the best prize ever!  Thanks so much, Andrew!

Absolutely. If I’m wearing flip flops they get kicked off every time I drive.

No battery powered F150 is going to make diesels obsolete. Diesels go in big trucks. F150's are only big trucks to those who don’t drive trucks. 

That’s literally EXACTLY what we were always told high school does.

Do you know why the 2 Series is now FWD? BMW once polled its 1 Series owners and MOST of them thought it was already a FWD car (it wasn’t). BMW owners do not care about what’s under the hood.

While 183 arrests have been made in connection with fires, only 24 people have actually been charged with arson.

I think it’s because they haven’t invested in the replacement model.

Those are already being phased out, actually. Newer planes tend to eschew screens entirely and instead allow you to stream a selection of video over there aircraft’s WiFi. Why bother with the expense and weight of screens when everyone has one in their pocket already?

IMO they should just charge for the power. Maybe let the library/town-hall “validate” your charging card if you were actually visiting the library/town-hall.

Perhaps they should add idle fees like what Tesla does for Supercharging. If your battery is full and the charging station is at least half full, you start accruing a parking fee