Amen. After posting that photo I need to go look at something beautiful to clear the mind. Perhaps a Japanese garden. Hell, an Impressionist exhibit. Maybe someone nearby has an Alfa Montreal they’ll let me stare at.
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That front styling works on the big GMC trucks. A big part of the reason the GMC pickups are better looking than their Chevy counterparts are the grills.
Interior looks great, but...
That’s not too bad. A little WD40 and you’ll get another 60 - 80,000 miles out of it.
THIS is huge. I agree. Yeah, you’ll be pissed when your infotainment does not work properly, but you’ll still get to work. When a powertrain issue comes up, you suddenly have a $40K brick in the garage. Your observations are the reason I watch newly-released transmissions or engines with trepidation.
I got out 3 years ago. This is not ancient history.
It was a luxury/ near luxury brand that was not Chrysler FCA. The nastiness of launches can get real ugly no matter the vehicle, and some of what I described was from $65,000 and up vehicles.
Outstanding take! And incidentally you hit on one of my pet peeves - foggy windows.
Fun way to spend a huge portion of one’s earnings on a bet, ain’t it!
Couple folks did have great comments about that. In short, it’s new for the States and for the factory that builds it in the States. So design might be worked out and stable thank to previous manufacturing in other countries, but the new/different supply chain and new/different assembly line bring plenty of their own…
Couple folks did have great comments about that. In short, it’s new for the States and for the factory that builds it in the States. So design might be worked out and stable thank to previous manufacturing in other countries, but the new/different supply chain and new/different assembly line bring plenty of their own…
I tried to put down a rough average, especially since the first few thousand really are looked at more closely by the manufacturers, with engineering and managerial support brought in even from HQ to oversee a launch.
Good policy. I tend to shoot for year 2 vehicles, but waiting for year 3 or 4 is sounder. Oh, so we miss out on the following year’s refresh or new model. Boo hoo.
So far the comments on this article are bringing joy to my life. You all rock!
It just immolates on its own Accord ????
All of the us U.S. automotive guys be like “You’d BETTER run, McLane”
Right on! I’ll go check your original response out.
Hehe, looks like Tom’s column is riling up all of us that are involved in Automotive! On another note, Mmmm... Caterham.
Yup, and pre-production vehicles that are lovingly made at 5% of normal speed will just not flush out enough of the issues. Not enough of them are made to flush out the car-design issues, and they’re not made fast enough to flush out the full-speed paint, subassembly, assembly issues.
True. That may help in this case. I write “may” because if it’s produced on a new production line (I didn’t check), then you’re dealing with assembly issues, even if the design issues have worked themselves out somewhere else. In that case... wait 4 months anyway.