1st Gear: Among the many issues impeding BEV adoption in the US (and elsewhere?), one that I have not seen much reporting on is the cost of repairs for these vehicles. While I will grant you that EVs don’t need oil changes as frequently as ICE vehicles, what happens when you drive over a pothole or get into a fender…

What a tie up and lost OEM and losing EV maker, what could go wrong here? 

As a Boomer that grew up on 60's Beach Boys but favored Jan & Dean, I don’t wear jeans shorts and the line Montserrat Mystique in Kokomo sounds more like “mounds of rotten steak”.  I do like it, but would not write that check.

This has got to be the most boomer of boomer cars ever featured on this site. Its in Phoenix too- a place boomers love to retire to. I’d bet hard cash the owner probably wears one of those tacky Hawaiian shirts with old cars on it, loves Jimmy Buffet, and all other things that boomer dudes stereotypically do.

I would lol. They’ve shown their reliability already in Europe and China.

Will anyone in the US actually buy a Chinese vehicle? I know I surely wouldn’t. Affordable or otherwise, I just don’t know who’d roll the dice. Of course, they said the same about the Korean automakers 25-30 years ago.

While I firmly believe that corporate executive pay is WAY WAY TOO HIGH, they don’t really get paid like normies. They’re getting tons of stock options, the value of which depend on the company’s performance. They’re also given in batches, over a period of years. So they’re getting “paid” now for options they earned…

The fact that I can’t figure out what it is called is an illustration to my issue.

As someone who daily drives an 80’s car I understand the yearning for simple, economical and reliable cars… Cars are too complex and expensive now. From a practical point of view I know there probably is no going back in the US market. The roads are dominated by very, VERY large vehicles that have high output engines,…

The seller is certainly in the ballpark for what he’s asking:

ND - the mathing simply doesn’t work, on this one. It’s a 57 year old Fiat with “just” 45,000 miles that recently needed (another?) $18,000 to be/remain “roadworthy”. For $53,500 there are far better ways to either do Cars and Coffee or to have a unique daily driver.

“One way Ford is working to fix quality issues, Farley said, is by tying employee bonuses to improved score”

Our 2018 Ford Expedition transmission grenaded itself at 70k miles. It sat in a shop for 3 MONTHS while the techs had to go through an approved repair process directly from Ford. They and I both knew it needed a completely new transmission but corporate demanded they follow the instructions of an engineer who walked…

I am so tired of car manufacturers, especially Ford, and their quality problems that they apparently can never get a handle on. It’s as if Ford is the Keystone Cops of car builders.

Ford - this is the year we finally fix our shit quality!

Anecdotally it seems like there are quite a few consumers that don’t want or won’t buy EV’s at this point. The reasons are too expensive, worries about charging, range, battery life, etc. It is in the best interest for manufacturers to sell consumers a product they want to buy and if consumers don’t want to buy EV’s-…

This is the primary thing, people seem to forget Tesla burned 10's of billions or more before it got to the point of making any profit at all.  If it weren’t for musk and investors just heaping cash into the fire to keep it going Tesla would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

Because it is a forced transfer of money from one company to another for no measureable outcome.  

Are you OK?

It’s neat to look at, but to me it’s ND at any price. This thing is one major hiccup away from being a $4,700 paperweight.