I still don’t understand why Ford is leaving so much money on the table by not making a Maverick RS.

I’m shocked to learn that a large, but sparsely populated nation with significant distances between major cities and long, cold winters has decided that car ownership makes sense.

And that’s even with all of the government subsidies BEVs have on offer. It turns out people value the convenience of 3-minute fill-ups, 500+ miles of range, a guaranteed second-hand market, and being able to fix their own cars or go to their local mechanic to do so.

Given the history of warfare between all of the nations represented, I think there would be ample opportunity to get triggered if they were looking to be offended. What clearer signal is there that they’re willing to let bygones be bygones than Tsunoda and Guanyu peacefully coexisting on the grid?

So they’re making a modern MkIV Supra?

How is it possible to evaluate the Las Vegas race before it has even begun? Who’s really stereotyping American places here?

This is an important story, no doubt, but what does it have to do with cars?

I’m guessing he was thinking about current Covid booster take rates, which are very, very low.

Without the TT or the R8, it’s unclear what exactly Audi would be selling on Monday after winning on Sunday. Porsche is the better fit within the VW Group anyways.

It’s also possible that the union as an entity doesn’t benefit, even if individual current members do. For example, union benefits and pay are as good as ever in certain unions compared to similar nonunion work, but those unions continue to shrink for the reasons I mentioned. A win for the current members today may…

It’s a Catch-22. If the unions succeed and the automakers make big concessions, then they’ll be incentivized to outsource and increase automation beyond where we are now. For the unions it might be short-term gain for long-term pain. The trajectory of unions has followed the trajectory of manufacturing in the US.…

I don’t know what they’re talking about. The ship looks fine to me!

Wow, Jalopnik. Punch down much? Heaven forbid this growing company from the global south succeeds in the lands of the people who once colonized and devastated Vietnam. How dare they pull themselves out of poverty by selling cars to the West like Japan and South Korea once did. Apparently they will get racist…

Wow, Jalopnik. Punch down much? Heaven forbid this growing company from the global south succeeds in the lands of the people who once colonized and devastated Vietnam. How dare they pull themselves out of poverty by selling cars to the West like Japan and South Korea once did. Apparently they will get racist…

Because things will be cheaper to buy?

And having fewer people capable of doing a given job.

Unions drive up wages as they are now. I’m not disputing that. My point is that one of the main reasons that happens is because membership is limited. If anyone who wanted to join a union could, we would have no skilled labor shortage, but skilled labor wages would be lower.

It’s a fact that there is a shortage of skilled laborers today in the US (which drives up wages) and it’s also a fact that the list of people waiting to join certain unions is very long. If it were just about how much work there was, everyone who wants to get into a union could. Obviously it’s regional and not the…

That would only be true if they knew unions would be open to anyone who wanted to join to become a skilled laborer. They know that it’s very difficult to get into certain unions, so from the company’s perspective unions mean more collective bargaining and higher wages.

Many unions engage in a lot of what guilds did historically. For example, some help train members and match up apprentices with journeymen. The unions run the apprenticeship programs for many trades.