1st gear: ford will put its effort into products that make it the most $$$. I don’t know what their margins are on each model, but after seeing Bronco pricing, I’m positive the return is greater than a Lightning which has newer and more expensive tech.

My predicted news stories for automobiles for 2024.

“They may be betting on the failure of EVs, but that’s a bet against an entire industry and its regulatory apparatus. Not a bet I’d make”

I cannot understand why Musk is doing this

What was done to this car is absolutely criminal.  

Since there’s record number of EVs on the lots right now, they’re gonna lower the production since the demand isn’t keeping up with production...

I’m old enough to be interested in this car’s idea of a 2+2 convertible that is comfy to drive.

On the surface, it appears to be a good deal—$7.5K is practically credit card money. And here comes the “but”: it’s a two decade old high-end Germanmobile. You ever need repairs (how can you not with a car with this much age on it and that many luxury features?) and “thanks” to being a Benz, your credit card will…

3rd Gear: Fisker is in trouble, being a standalone OEM will only make it worse. As their plan fades less people will buy as they don’t want an orphaned car and it snowballs from there. Less people interested, means less people buy, which makes it harder to go ahead and less people are interested. I would buy a newer…

No benefit of having all cars be PHEV or Hybrid at minimum? Surely you jest. Building infrastructure doesn’t happen overnight, for free or without it’s own environmental drawback, not to mention getting all the raw materials for batteries. Plus, building PHEV or Hybrids can be done easily and quickly compared to…

This require new cars to by hybrid not just straight EV, for a vey large portion of the public a pure EV just won’t work.  Like I am a poster child for an EV I drive very little so range isn’t a big deal nor do I need a huge vehicle.  But an EV just will not work for me at all.  I have no way to charge at home, even…

NADA is kind of right on this one, though. It would make more sense if the mandate required that 60% of new cars be at least PHEV, as those seem to have a much easier time finding buyers. 

I’m gonna also throw in the fact that the CEO of Target said they had 7 straight quarters of declining sales for discretionary items like clothes and electronics. Nobody’s buying shit right now because everything’s too expensive, I know I went from being a person that wanders the aisles to someone who gets what’s on…

Large Greenhouses! Give me some freaking side windows that I can rest my elbow on without lifting it to the height of my head (and I’m a fairly tall guy). I remember the windows in my ‘91 Integra were a perfect. Hell, look at all of that glass. I think I remember the Integra catalog from the dealer stating that it had…

For the majority of the US, banning right on red is a silly, and impractical idea.

In downtowns, sure, but in the suburbs it makes no sense to NOT have the ability to turn right on red.

I am convinced that Tesla currently operates in a different space than other auto makers (though that difference is shrinking) and could increase sales by making products like a Model 3 wagon and even a Simone Giertz-inspired Model 3 Truckla. Easy to do, based on current models, and people would buy them. At minimum,…

The momentum exists because EVs are better vehicles.

The focus on CEO salaries is probably good for their PR, and definitely taps into the “eat the rich” mentality...but paying them $1 isn’t going to solve the problem.

It doesn’t matter how well-made an ugly car is. It’s still an ugly car.