Serious question: How much lost capacity for the production of EVs has there been because of environmentalists forcing shutdowns and reduced production of mining operations?

Very true.  Loads of road presence and just badass.

They do look menacing IRL, but the wheel/tire combo looks HUGE. I guess they wanted it to appear less like a wagon and more like some kind of demon hatch/CUV and it works, but I find it disproportionate.

I bought an S550 Cabrio but quickly turned it around for an E63S Wagon because I knew the V8 was going. I’m sad to see Merc give up on so many of the models that make the brand cool though. Low volume cars might not make sense financially, but they’re usually halo segments that people look at and aspire to own...and…

You can get the XKR for that price.

We should go back to living like it is 1723, I guess. Oh wait, that would mean deforesting the world to stay warm too.

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”. WEF would love to destroy our standard of living, but this scarcity mentality is not based in reality, but on the desire of the powerful for more power and control. I highly recommending reading Michael Shellenberger, a sane environmentalist, who advocates a balanced…

Lemme start it:  Automatic trans in an E30 is a critical failure.

No, it displaces the registration into other states. A company would only need to have an office or some other legal presence in the state to register the older engined trucks there and then operate them in CA as normal.

This doesn’t prevent them from doing business in California. They can’t register the truck there. California has no power to keep trucks legal in other states off their roads as long as they’re “appropriately” registered in other states. It’s a set constitutional issue the same way Massachusetts can’t ding a…

As long as it’s registered in another state California can’t impound shit. It’s basic instarstate commerce clause stuff.

Contrary to what is written on Jalopnik and other liberal sites, the lack and expense of cats has little to do with theft rings. And our pollution has very little to do with diesel engines

Interstate and international corporations that run most of these trucks have little problem registering their vehicles in localities with more favorable monetary conditions and then driving them anywhere they please. Mostly they just have to have an address in that area. Corporations may be people now (for some…

Industry response: “lol, ok... we’ll just register our fleet in Nevada then and give them our tax money instead.”

If you drive one of these, they’re noticeably a tier above an S class or 7 series. You’re only saying that out of jealousy. I can’t afford one either, but I have friends that do and they’re not the same.

I owned and operated a car restoration/repair shop, and one of the marques we specialized in was Rolls-Royce. While I usually owned the older versions, and I’m certainly not wealthy, 25 years ago the vast majority of Americans thought that all Rolls-Royce vehicles cost $100,000 and up, even used ones. In all the years…

I have one, I love it, but: 1) it has rear inboard brakes, that means if you want to change rear disks and calipers it’s going to be 10 hours as the entire rear subframe needs to come out, 2) the automatic climate system may have been super cool in the 70s and 80s, but it’s a complete pain to make work again if…

Uh, no, they did not exit the US market. Sales fell off a cliff after the 60 Minutes hack job, combined with the early 90s recession that killed all the Euro makes sales, but they never stopped selling cars here.

This is a manual transmission. How is it going to go into reverse without warning?

That was the 5000 not the Coupe, and I think it’s pretty well established that it was all operator error. The European models didn’t have any problems, just the American ones that were purchased by people who had more experience operating the controls on an early 80's Cadillac or a Buick.