You’re mostly right with your examples.
Difference being, those brands made BETTER versions of existing products, then setup sustainable production & parts supply and head-offices to service the new markets they are selling into. Then they innovate and compete on quality and performance.

For my own use case, I’d go for the range extender one but not the EV-only one. I work from home and have no commute, and I would like something that runs electric-only around town. I also tow my race car long distances and cannot feasibly stop to charge in rural areas with a trailer attached.

EVs will be niche vehicles until charging infrastructure offers the same convenience as the existing fossil fuel infrastructure. Case closed. Plug in hybrids are a necessary transition to an all electric future. Case closed.

The brashness of the Chinese copycats is amazing.

He demanded the cameo to use the hotel for the scene.

CTS Sport Wagon is a good looking wagon. I could see a slight premium for it over a sedan. But this seems to be on the high side. Maybe around $12-14?

Hopefully you get the chance to drive one and report back to us. Some of the initial feedback I’ve seen about the new QX80 is that Infiniti/Nissan did a good job addressing the luxury aspects, but that the ride quality is poor and the engine is merely “adequate”. 

Bold assumption that Americans are willing to adapt in the face of death/danger.

You can't fix stupid and any time you idiot-proof something along comes a bigger idiot 

I have never understood why train crashes happen other than human stupidity. This is as controlled an environment as you could hope for with a fast-moving object: a train can move one of two possible directions and can only move on a fixed path. They make noise, be it from the vibrations in the rails, the flashing…

Part of the problem is that it runs trains at high speeds through notoriously flat Florida where they cross 178 rail street-level crossings over 66.5 miles.

Something with a loud V8, and conversely a fast ev (model 3 performance, etc)

Don’t want to meet your daddy...just want you in my caddy

ABSO - and for those of us approved for legal use it would sure make it easier to fucking PAY FOR IT!

[Porsche, interior. The CEO is standing with their engineers around the big table in the good conference room up on Seven.]

Actually, I talked my wife into one, and now that she has one she swears she won’t have anything else

I have one of these, albeit it dark green. It is hilarious, a stately home that thinks it is a racehorse. I have it serviced once a year at a fixed cost of £ 480. For the naysayers, try before you buy, yes it is a stupid indulgence the tyres are silly ‘spensive and it makes sense for stupid reasons. The service…

I would take the old school 6.75 Rolls V8 over any BMW V8/V12 as far as reliability goes. I rarely reject cars on their paint alone, but unless I was some kind of poseur tooling up and down the Vegas Strip, no thanks.

Put the building on air suspension. Problem solved.

Finally, a late-model Porsche drops in value.