Polestar was a terrible idea from Day 1. In the emerging EV market, “Let’s make really expensive and complicated models!” was not a great business plan, especially coming from Volvo, which had a history of making refreshingly practical machines.

When Ford adopts DEI policies, it’s about making more money. When they abandon DEI policies, it’s about making more money. They don’t care either way, they just want to maximize shareholder value. This should not surprise anyone.

First gear: Other’s have pointed out the tax rebate loop hole.

Willys. Kaiser. AMC. Renault. Chrysler. Daimler. Cerberus. Fiat. PSA/Stellantis.

I’m going to guess the recent MBA grads thought they’d “cut costs” by eliminating the cheaper, volume sellers, and boost profits by building “high margin” stuff.

The handwriting has been on the wall for Stellantis for a while, if you ask me — anyone could see that their product line was withering, they weren’t really trying to do anything new, and they were unsustainably pushing their cash cows (jeep and ram) to higher price points so as to generate revenue. Time for their…

300, Charger, Challenger, all dead. Chrysler has 1 product (Pacifica around since 2016 with little changes). Dodge consists of the Hornet and the ancient Durango which will either go out of production or get replaced. The Ram no longer has a V8 (and a Hemi at that) and good luck trying to market to the same people…

It’s pretty simple: a nearly-all European executive team who has very little experience with the North American market is running the show. Into the ground.

Anyone else wonder where the negative battery cable went?

All GOP votes should first be mailed to Mar-a-Lago, preferably at the last minute, for expert verification.

Let’s let Americans train robots how to work!

$48 an hour to wear a motion capture suit and a VR helmet sounds great in theory, but then my boss would be an insufferable twat that would likely drain all the life from my body.

This seems like a good deal to me, anybody that buys a German car this old had better have a good mechanic or so the work themselves. The preventative stuff on the cooling system (if not done) is not that expensive to do yourself.

Looks like about as good of a 3-series of this vintage as you’re going to find, and I bet this delivers a delightful, near-analog driving experience. I say NP because buying any BMW of this vintage is going to be a bit of a financial commitment, whether you spend the money up front for a good clean one or spend it…

2nd gear: I still think Toyota is doing it right.

We only want NORTH AMERICAN made EVs though. We can’t have any of those imported EVs or EV parts here on American soil.

The EV thing is so political. But its part of a great foreign policy strategy. We can make all the Oil and Nat Gas we want, but we can’t control the total supply of the market. So OPEC+ can always adjust supply and impact prices.

If the EV credits went to DC Rapid Chargers as prevalent as gas pumps, we really would…

We got this thing all wrong. The idea that EV would save the environment is just a terrible promotion to begin with. Somehow they completely failed to promote the merits of EV as a car, and there are quite a lot. It’s simply an evolution of automobile, and the better one for the most people, too. We gotta stop this EV…

They’re telling me the cows eat grass. I think, for Hindu that’s not so bad, right? The cows are there, eating grass and it’s a beautiful thing. Hindus understand this very well. Me, I don’t like grass so much but the cows love it! They’re saying it’s much better for the environment than eating meat, so I’m totally…

Nope. Not even for free.