You aren’t wrong, but then again, you are just framing it incorrectly.

The sad part is that with modern paint technology, along with a similar cost of paint supplies regardless of color (yes, pearlescent and flake and such does add to costs), there is really no reason every vehicle could come in base colors of white, black, gray, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, or brown. If you…

The bad thing about subscriptions is how it affects the secondary market.

The funny thing is that we both love refreshed styling, but we also hate it when it is just done for the sake of doing it. So what car needs a refresh? Really, none of them, or all of them, all at the same time.

Neutral: Imagine There Are No Dealers

1st Gear: 2022 Was a Rough One for U.S. Vehicle Sales

Nothing unexpected will happen in the auto industry in 2023. Not because things go well, just because everything that has happened in the past now makes us prepared for the worst to happen.

I would think the answer in reality is no. However, holding a blind taste test of just the actual cheese would make a difference, but as an ingredient, the average person would likely never be able tell the difference between a dish made with the stuff in the green can and the expensive stuff.

Well, sorry to tell you that Lexus and Infiniti consider themselves luxury brands, as does the motoring press and most people.

Funny, people said the same thing about Lexus pricing for a Toyota, or Infiniti pricing on a Nissan. And Audi, apparently German for Expensive VW. Pay for a Mercedes, they said. Buy a BMW instead, they said.

Neutral: Hell yes, buy this car!

The issue with Clarkson’s logic on sourcing parts for a Prius are exactly the same for any vehicle, ICE or EV or hybrid. We do not have a single source for anything. Iron is not mined in England, is it? So that comes in from somewhere else. Car parts come from whatever vendor makes them for the cheapest, and most ship…

Clarkson has always shown his true colors, but we somehow overlooked it. Just like we overlooked Ellen. When the overwhelming evidence comes to light, out of the horse’s own mouth, then and only then do we get horrified by the behaviors that were cloaked behind a facade the public eagerly lapped up.

What do you want to bet that they did it as a cost savings plan? Tesla does sell in both RHD and LHD markets, so having a truck that would not require retooling saves a few cents, even if it makes for a very shitty driving position. And they will also claim that FSD would make the driver only an attendant to take over…

The point is that humans handle random better than AI, and always will. We either have humans driving, or AV driving, but the idea of a mixture of the two is mutually incompatible. Since the scenario is having mixed AV and human drivers, it will not work, and if it fails, the software rarely dies, but the humans often…

Well, please keep in mind that the goal of autonomous driving is that NO HUMAN will be driving, so the AI and programming only has to deal with random breakdowns of the road or vehicle, much less likely than a human doing something stupid. Fully autonomous works quite well in the situations where there is no other…

Nothing, and I mean nothing, can accurately predict the behavior of human decisions made behind the wheel of a car. As long as there is a human driver on the road, autonomy is dangerous and impractical. Nobody has ‘a leg up’ because there is nothing that can accurately predict that Muffy drops her lipstick and starts…

The issue with V2X, or autonomous driving, or darned near anything regarding making driving safer is that while the tech would be on new cars, there is still the existing fleet of vehicles on the road that would not have that tech onboard, rendering it useless in most applications.

Again, people are not looking at history for a possible answer.

Cars, good sir, not pickups. Other than the regular Mustang and Mach E, Ford does not sell cars. They sell trucks. Let’s look at what they sold in March 2022 as an example: