Every MINI, at every trim level, can be had with a manual.

Kinda funny that Ford is mocking them when they started in a similar way. Constant changes to make cars easier to assemble and a focus on vertical integration.  I don’t get all the negativity on Tesla or why anyone would cheer for the most American car company in existence to fail. They are a very young company that…

Counterpoint: Cruising at the speed limit on a straight highway is the same regardless of how much power you have. The one place where having a lot of power comes in handy is completely hampered by the fact that going to jail sucks.

The point is an industrial tent can be made to pretty much have all the amenities of a permanent building (climate control actually is very common for industrial tents, just doing some quick search).

“Tesla’s Fremont, California facility was once the home of the NUMMI joint-venture between GM and Toyota. From 1984 until the plant was shuttered in 2010, an average of 6,000 vehicles rolled off of the assembly line every week. At its peak, in 2006, more than 8,200 cars were assembled per week. Tesla, owner of the…

I know that this isn’t the point, but this is the future. The ability to rapidly, and hopefully economically, create a temporary assembly line that can be moved at will is some damn fine engineering. It has gallons of potential. Ex. Apple making a surge line to handle excess iPhone orders on a new phone.

Yep, 1980s Mercedes-Benz’ gift to the American auto industry.

On the contrary, they do. The US people voted with their wallets that all they want are increasingly massive SUVs, so Ford is obliging by getting rid of all the stuff US people do not buy. At least for now, Ford is keeping some of these goodies around in the countries where a significant fraction of the population…

In Michigan, this is considered “light surface rust”. Seriously.

Meanwhile in Michigan...

I live in Saskatchewan, and I can tell you that these aren’t even that bad. I’ve daily driven cars that are much worse than this.

As someone who has been driving electric cars for 6 years allow me to retort.

>80% of the country lives in urban areas. 93% of daily commuters drive less than 100 miles per day (that’s for the entire country). That’s only taking active days and all trips taken during a day. So with all the driving a person has to do, a 100 mile car will satisfy the needs of over 90% of the U.S. population.

Its pretty well documented that the whole goal of Tesla as a company is to promote the use of electric vehicles. So actually, he should be happy that Telsa is forcing the competition to go electric.

Print your comment out, frame it and put it on your wall. This way you can reflect back on how wrong you were in 10 years. No I’m not going to argue about it.

Imagine being ol’ Musky boy. You are trying real hard, some success and some fail, but doing pretty good. You are working really hard, grinding to make things happen.

Very cool! I deal with air freight but nothing the size of something like that; knowing what it costs to fly pallets made me wonder how the costs run when you get to specialized oversized stuff. In a case like this I imagine cost was the least of the concerns when the entire production is on the line; I tell people on…

I bet you this is exactly how it happened

That original parts Supplier is going to be hit with such a huge bill.