You may notice the overwhelming silence coming from the big 3 and Japan and Germany on this issue. I have a feeling that they are just biding their time but would loooooove to have some leverage over bad dealerships and love to be able to force bad dealerships out and replace them with factory stores.

The only good car dealership is a non-existant car dealership.

Yeah, it’s time to end this legalized middleman monopoly. Dealerships argue that they “protect” the consumer from unscrupulous manufacturers... Bwahaahaa!!

Once you’ve worked for a dealership you realize beyond a shadow of a doubt it’s an extremely broken system.

There will be such a squee when the auto industry adopts a direct sales model. Frabjous day levels of squee.

This is the only issue I agree with Tesla on. The dealership system seems completely broken to me as a consumer.

I just want to say that this is a really well done article, especially contrasting the compensation of the executives with the debt of the students. This is a good example of why Libertarianism is ridiculous. It encourages people to leech as much capital as possible with no thought to justice or fairness and little…

(1) They charged three-to-four times as much as a non-profit university. (2) Accreditation (generally) ensures the classes are in fact taught and graded by qualified professors. (3) Students couldn’t find work because they graduated from a non-accredited college. (4) Most didn’t graduate at all. The graduation rate of…

They are the Department of Education has already had our lenders give us the paper work for loan forgiveness and are hosting local workshops to help people apply for it.

Damn it now that song will be stuck in my head all day.

For Science!

At certain ludicrious speed, it actually does. However it's more about optimizing angled armor to protect against the random molecular impacts than aerodynamics.

It’s like a Quintesson ship.

Without having actually seen the film, nor read any spoilers (because my interest in this film extends as far as waiting for it to premier for free on Sky Movies), I’m going to suggest that the following happens:

Where we’re going you won’t need trailers to see.

lets see your highly lauded electric cars go 600 miles on a charge and only require 5 minutes to “re-charge” and go another 600...

For some reason I read this in Apu’s voice.

Or you know... drive a diesel that doesn’t have emissions issues? Seriously this comment wreaks of “fuck you I got mine!” The VW emissions scandal is a scandal for a reason, and everyone should be concerned about NOx emissions, even climate change deniers.

“Will remove hat for gas”