Ah yes, if Ford can cover the cost for 30 people to go test product in Africa in support of a super popular and profitable product, that’s an obvious indication they can also afford to give 57,000 employees whatever their heart desires 

I mean to be fair, defined benefit pensions are basically extinct in the US outside of government institutions. So it’s not like the OEM’s are putting the screws to the UAW and withholding something that’s a common benefit at other companies.

I mean to be fair, those new model issues tend to be things that are a non-issue if you’re buying this to drive 7 miles per year and keep it stored in the 4th garage stall of your 3rd vacation home for a few decades before you try to take it to barrett jackson and let some other rich idiot also over pay for a low vin.

Can you imagine if instead of trying to re-invent the wheel with their ridiculous cyber truck, if Tesla just made a more “normal” truck like the Rivian how many they could have sold by now?

I’m kind of surprised this type of yacht wouldn’t have any ability to tap into shore power so it doesn’t have to keep its generators idling 24/7 from the day it’s built...

So they took a perfectly good TRX, and took away the 4wd so it’s value off road is diminished, it’s traction on-road is also ruined and then took away the passenger seats so it’s utility is also diminished? So spent a ton of money to make this thing objectively worse for the sake of subjectively looking neat? 

+1, it’s like hey we have some money we want to give out. How about let’s give it to people who live in one of the most affluent areas of the county?  Oh and better yet, let’s only give that money to the people who are so affluent that despite being in an area with super high cost of living, they can still afford…

I mean, presumably the contract with the parking company has some sort of terminology that makes denying access to the property a violation of the contract

I’m assuming the “upper 40's” price tag doesn’t get you the 400 mile range option

I’m surprised you even get in the car, you seem like the type who walks to work uphill both ways!

In that case, it should default to being disabled on EV’s too until the owner provides proof they got their electrons from a low/no emissions source

+1000 on this. In my old office, I was on the third floor and my window looked out over the parking lot. It was so nice at the end of the day I would hit the remote start and by the time I packed up my things walked downstairs and out to the car, it would be nice and toasty.

Throwing a lot of stones for someone living (working) in a glass house

Based on the fact these things sell like hotcakes, maybe you just have unique preferences that diverge from common consensus? 

Except the height difference is due to variations in gravitational/magnetic forces on different points of the planet. So it’s not like digging a trough between two lakes that will cause the water levels to equalize. The canal would just fill up and settle to a water “height” that’s  not equal across the canal, but you…

If this is true, then why would all these companies continuing to voluntarily over pay their CEO’s when the primary goal of a company is to make money, not give it away? Do you think it’s some grand conspiracy or perhaps the CEO’s are all blackmailing their respective employers? 

Reminds me a few years back there was a show called something like “repo games” where they would go around repo-ing cars, except once they had the car all hooked up, they would give the owner a chance to answer some trivia questions and if they won, the show would pay off their note and let them keep the car.

+1, with the competitors all rolling out options with 300HP and 400+ ft lbs, the gladiator and its higher price tag and anemic engine simply isn’t compelling unless you’re a jeep die hard or really really want a truck that’s also a convertible. 

I should clarify, I don’t personally have any issue with this article in a vacuum. Just noting the hypocrisy of this specific author’s body of work in relation to this particular article.

I should clarify, I don’t personally have any issue with this article in a vacuum. Just noting the hypocrisy of this specific author’s body of work in relation to this particular article.