With the US prices, there’s more than enough margin to pay a US work force... But companies want profits for shareholders, so import it is!

Election year explains a lot of what democratic presidents pushes through in the last few years....

EV/PHEV trucks can tow a good bit... the ranger phev (next year) is about 7000 lbs...

At this point, it’s mostly convenient as a second car for around town/local area trips...

Shipping from Shanghai to Long beach/Tacoma port is roughly $5-7k for a 20' container.

The buyer just needs to buy a smaller tent and camping supplies lol.

Their back end integration is decent, but UI is terrible like the car lol.

And no one suggested a Miata and put on a set of crossclimate 2s or similar snow/ice capable tires?

Gonna be a hot take, but most cars are fine straight from the factory as long as you’re not pushing it above 8/10 of its abilities... AKA most cars and all mall crawlers.

2nd gear: This is why legacy manufacturers are mostly still trash at it... trying to apply their legacy ways to software development...

Not sure what they wanted, but remoting into the server with a data connection has been a thing forever for heavier tasks... (at least since 3G internet anyways for laptops and general internet for )

I vote, but I’m literally in one of the bluest fucking districts in the US at 86% or something voting for democrats last election... I don’t think my vote will actually do anything lol.

FIA is literally saudi power tripping itself out of a sport lol.

just a FPV drone doing somewhat of a dive around the rocket with post processing.

Uh.... that’s literally how MOST people buy cars since they can’t figure out your way. That’s why all the dealerships push for monthly cost basis and try to fit it into people’s budgets with all the high duration loans now that people’s incomes haven’t kept up. If most people actually thought your way (my way of…

Good thing that most banks tightened loans enough to the point where people with poorer credit scores literally can’t get a loan anymore lol.

Imagine if GM gives a fuck about consumers lol.

It does. there’s a money factor involved in the lease (that’s the interest rate) and you can modify that as well with a additional deposit.

Interest rates doesn’t make that much of a difference on car loans. PERIOD.

car interest rates has NEVER been that forward looking because it’s only a 5-7 year loan.