“Hello and hi, tire engineer here, we strongly suggest that you get a new tire, as we do not recommend taking your high performance $140,000 + car at high speed with a patched tire. A new tire will set you back $450, which we seriously believe should be within your budget”

Please, do tell us how the president is correct here, then. I want to hear how rolling back emissions standards makes the cars safer.

What larger picture? Abuse of power?

Trump sucks, but most of Detroit’s management isn’t much better. Alan Mulally was the only decent CEO a major US car company ever had

Exactly. Union workers just think that because they are in a union, they are entitled to max benefits with no effort. 90% of union workers that I know are lazy AF while on the 7:30-3:30 grind ( coffee/cigarette breaks, lunch, and gearing up, clean up time included).

The GM workers do need some kind of dose of reality. For example, maybe an education on what other Fortune 500 company employees pay for healthcare. It’s not pretty...and it has gone up steeply, especially in the past 5-7 years.

5th Gear.

One thing I have always wondered something. In European crash tests they always have a child in a car seat during a crash tests. However you never see testing for back seat passengers in North American crash testing. I just wanted to know why that is.

Yep - insurers are way more keen on paying out book value for a totaled car once than that plus someone’s stay in the ICU, multiple surgeries, a year of physical therapy, lost wages, lawyer fees...

If a union chooses to strike, good for them. I’m all for it.

Why have automotive manufacturing jobs been going to Mexico, Canada, and other countries? The answer is the UAW. The only thing that union does is fleece their members pockets, then drive their jobs out of the country after taking their money. The minuscule benefits that the UAW has provided for their members has…

Buddy, you ain't gone out drinking with me and my Roomba. My Roomba gets fuuuuuucked up. 

I hate to say it, but I have no sympathy for the UAW this round.

I think it’s going to be hard for the UAW to justify their strike this time given the huge scandal of spending dues on hookers, booze, and hotels. The workers used to see it as the UAW versus some greedy corporation. Now it’s one greedy corporation versus another one. The UAW doesn’t care about its workers excep tto…

“left to fix the Tourx’s shortcomings, and then some.”

I wonder if a line can be drawn (in black Sharpie, of course) between this announcement and Mary Barra’s White House visit yesterday?

Calling this anti-trust is such a fucking stretch.

Power seats here. Glad I don’t have to deal with another recall.

Article about manual seat adjusters shows photo of F-150 Limited with powered, heated & cooled leather massaging seats.