“of finding the meanest and muscliest badass in the prison yard”

More like finding that guy who is trying too hard and is “all talk”. 

“Ah yes, Maserati, all the maintenance costs of the Ferrari”

Ah yes lets have two brands under same roof compete for the same customer. Smart!

Ferrari should actually be glad folks like you are looking elsewhere :)

They do have racing heritage in Le Mans (WEC) and WRC they can piggy-back of.

New Supra is an indication that they are willing to try to inject some genuine “sportiness” in their lineup moving forward.

“There’s nothing I can do for you if you insist on not learning anything new.”

No one asked you to do anything.

“Railroads? Built nationwide due to nearly-free grants of public land and generous tax breaks. Private car ownership? How about the billions spent on public highway and bridge construction?”

Are you sure this is equal comparison (in quality and quantity) to Tesla Motors and ZEV credits?

“The long-standing obsession with…

I see it too. They both have 4 wheels!

Hi. My name is Elon Musk and I approve this message.

“The good news is that if they don’t survive, it will be because some other bigger automakers will have cracked the EV nut in a better way, and customers will respond by buying them.”

Not necessarily. There is plenty of ways to nudge Tesla Motors out of business without bothering to “crack the EV nut”.

I would like to see how many drivers were the same race/gender as rider who got his/her driver canceled and compare that number to total drivers and cancellations.

The choice of Seattle and Boston is a separate topic altogether.

No time for that (or fact check) when you are in the business of click-bait.

I never had a pleasure of serving as a Carmax salesman but I have no reason to doubt your honesty. How much that sample size is relevant to the market as total is a separate topic.

Infiniti and Acura had been mentioned as examples of what Mazda is striving for. Both can leverage parents to keep the cost down while a…

Other than MDX it doesn’t look like either one is claiming a meaningful market share (any segment). They can both leverage the parents (Renault-Nissan and Honda respectively) to subsidize this.

Mazda on the other hand has no one to lean on and an additional R&D and capital expenditure to bring products up to level that…

I understand but don’t think they will be able to compete with the likes of Lexus (price point and reliability) or brand recognition of say Land Rover and BMW. In addition, good portion of customers in this market segment either lease or plan on refreshing well within warranty period rendering the “maintenance…

“Thats what they need it for. The problem I see is I don’t think the rest of the brand supports that. They don’t have mazda performance options out there for the other cars, and don’t seem to support the enthusiast.

“I am not saying there are many of them, but I think that is what they are shooting for. Like I said, it would be more of a halo car than a sales success.”

From my experience there has to be an “end game” to this kind of exercise in order to justify the expenditure. In this particular case it would be to pry away…

“it doesn’t instantly say “mom who doesn’t care about personal appearance” and that is important to a lot of people.”

I would not use “a lot” as a percentage of total sales and, more importantly, in the areas where this does matter the average customer is gravitating towards brands that are often described as premium.

Or is it? Come to think of it how come you rarely see T Swift and J Lawrence together in the same room. And how convenient there is a public feud :)

“With that kind of high end performance car, the people that buy it don’t car about mpg, they don’t car about expensive to replace parts, they want something that they can say is fast and let sit in the garage only to take out on nice weekends.”

I am afraid the demographics you have just described is not aware of or…

Between its advertising campaign and premium look of body and interior (along with the price) I can see how one could easily get the impression it is a full EV as opposed to sharing propulsion with much cheaper sibling (Volt).

To be fair you also have answered quite a few questions in the same post yesterday so I…

I concur.

The only critique so far is his comment yesterday regarding ELR implying that he did not know it has an ICE as a backup to its electric unit. I’ll allow a possibility that he was being sarcastic.