That refresh was badly needed. It looked so “meh” before.

Keeping it looking much like a coupe, despite the sacrilege of making a 4-door Charger, was one of the better design elements of that car.

Fuel extraction is a technological issue.

Raf, where you were twenty years ago on hydrogen is where others were nearly 40 years ago with EVs.

Low-Tech IV Iron Duke

The ‘99 Charger prototype was nice looking car.
The front end wasn’t 100% there, but the car looked better than what eventually hit the market.

COTD

To be fair, I’m sure there are more than a few Supra buyers know what’s under their hood, (A Beemer!) but certainly more Challenger buyers do.

Swap in the newer Charger front body style and you’ve got a real winner.

Many people don’t understand how markets work.
Lawrence has proven he’s one of those people.

Back in the day I had a pretty nice Mitsubishi pen.

Government in action.

What the fuck with the grills these days?

In reading the comments, it’s readily apparent that the concept of what “poverty” is needs to be addressed by many.

It’s not just subsidies, it’s the progressive taxation system.
This is why I dislike both.

3rd: Good. It’s not the federal government’s place to dictate what type of vehicles Americans are allowed to buy. If the rest of the world wants to go down that road (pun intended,) fine. As far as trying to sway the U.S. to do the same, screw them.

It’s quite possible the worker’s alternative was to lose their job.
Assuming that, since the mine filed for bankruptcy, cutting payroll or shutting down were probably the only two options.

Are they trying to claim that this cost was obfuscated from them?

Almost no lessons were learned from the housing bubble. You can still buy a house with little to no money down and the government still backs most of the loans. I’ve not yet heard of interest-only loans being a thing again, but can’t say I’d be surprised if I did hear it.

For inflation to get out of control, the government need only to keep printing money considerably faster than economic growth. Eventually, that tax will hit us all.