Right? The changes aren’t drastic, but this is notably more handsome than a regular CR-V.

The color doesn’t help. It’s really testing my stance that: “I don’t have to love the color to be happy it’s not in grayscale.”

More importantly, every vessel that visits a US port is held to *some* standard of care regardless of if it’s foreign or not. I’d actually hazard that this standard might improve once we find out how borked this thing was. 

I wonder what’s less likely: A rudimentary safety structure they implemented when the same thing happened to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in FL, or the “Make Sure the Ship Isn’t Broken Before it Leaves the Port” bill.

There are only two meaningful points of discourse here:

Yeah, it’s a lot more complex than letting the engineering handle everything. Those can just as easily be “line goes up” types that ruin everything.

I agree, but it’s just not going to happen as long as the company is publicly traded. The best of both worlds would probably be something adjacent to the ‘08 auto bailout with Chrysler where the feds take an ownership stake and pull it off the market, but we’re probably both talking about things that aren’t going to…

In the immortal words of Norm MacDonald:

Great, can’t wait to see which completely indiscernible corporate dipshit they replace him with. I’m sure he will find some new part of the process of making an airplane to spinoff to an “independent contractor” consisting of former Boeing employees, but now with no oversight and limited QC. He will be lauded as a…

This is a good articulation of what I’ve aimlessly referred to as “pound-for-pound” pricing on EV’s. Fact is, we are fighting an uphill battle until an EV being the same price as an equivalent ICE doesn’t require some kind of qualifier/explanation regarding a tax credit/incentive or cost of ownership.

I think they rated them economically when they first came out, but everyone quickly figured out you really need to baby them to get the good mileage. Like, hyper-mile all the time. 

Sort of begs a question if the 50 grand budget is actually his, or what his vehicle allowance covers. Although with that being said, 50k miles is freaking nuts, and in the territory where it’s probably in the company’s best interests to just buy him a new car every couple of year. I work in an industry with a lot of…

The way how you get around that is you go where people have friends/family picking them up (usually separate from dedicated taxi lanes) and find someone who looks confused/lost. I’m guessing that’s what’s going on here. 

Indeed, this is what you buy if you want people know how much money you spent on a car, without realizing you ae completely devoid of taste.

I saw a purple one on the first floor of a parking garage at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. The thought that somebody high ranking at the university probably drives it pisses me off to no end.

Great pick. In hindsight, both this and the Caddy CT6 were short-lived treasures. 

You could simplify this even further: It’s less about catering to the UAW specifically, and more about chasing the middle of the electorate close to a general election. That’s normal, for better or worse.

I totally get that as a Chicago native, as we’ve got that problem even worse with ORD. It was the busiest for 30 years before ATL, and despite still being huge and capable of moving a lot of people, it shows it’s age: The cell phone lot is in a nuts off-site location, rideshare pickup is outside one of the…

I honestly think you could fix all of this with just a revised CAFE. Instead we have two flawed systems; One leaves too many outs for larger vehicles, the other was this arbitrary misinterpretation of how fast we could fully pivot to EV’s.

“I don’t think this move is popular with anyone but a very small segment of the public.”