I kind of get your point, but a car, it seems to me, is the wrong object to teach a kid the value of work.

Yea but nitrous isn’t really something you’d want in a car you can race on the track. Since it runs out of nitrous very soon, so you’ll be left with a lot less power.

And to be honest Chrysler might not be around in 2029.

I was just researching the numbers myself, but those 194lbs was the average 10 years ago. 7 years ago the average was already 195.5 lbs. Who knows what it is today?

“Let’s hope we get at least one month of three digit sales out of the C4 this year“

At least! Exchange the average French driver with an American and you are already at 200lbs more!

Nobody is worse than the Italians, or at least as Fiat Chrysler, Lamborghini and Ferrari.

And then it will be a Nissan that nobody actually buys.

As if...

If I had Lambo money, I wouldn’t buy a Lamborghini. If I were the typical Lamborghini owner, I might want the V12, since everyone would notice me even more. But I guess an outside sound system would do the same job.

That is not their business plan. Their business plan is slapping a Jeep badge on everything.

Maybe VW has some ideas how to get them pass more easily?

It isn’t such a bad idea to sell Jeep, from a CEOs standpoint. There are huge bonuses to be payed to FCA shareholders, maybe some tock compensation from the buyer, which means big bonuses for the CEO. If the rest of FCA files bankruptcy two quarters later, who cares?

Something you do willingly? Not really expensive? Not really sure where you are going with this metaphor.

This could be the luxury trim Challenger Demon! Light weight, optional seats and tons of wood.

The US automotive industry is actually the most fascinating industry ever, in my opinion. They consistently manage to survive while making the most stupid decisions, to this day! And it isn’t even like there would be just one company that got carried along by a government that would do anything to keep it alive.

I think the emissions regulations just were an excuse for automakers back then. The real reason for why those cars were bad, was horrible engineering. Because they weren’t just slow, but just horrible in every aspect.

That’s why FCA tends to keep their cars for centuries, just imagine how bad some of those cars must have been in their first model years!

The downside is that you’ll end up with a Honda, Toyota or Ford, though.

Well it must be, since they traveled more than 322 miles a day, on average. So some days less and some days more! But I still don’t think that is the norm for E350 vans. The extra equipment of this van had built into, to broadcast news, might have made keeping it for that milage worthwhile, but any other company would…