I get it, but I think the electorate is ill-informed on purpose. The strategy is to divide people on culture war issues while those in power wage class war unabated. The news media exists to pander to and further entrench either of two sides. Then your options come election time are two millionaires swimming in…

The folks that have a chance at winning are hand-selected by the powers that be. Political choice is an illusion. It’s why the available options always seem to have no interest in moving forward on things a majority of Americans want. What you’re left with is horse race bullshit where politics is team sports. “Hey,…

Relying on consumers to unilaterally “disarm” is never going to work. Need to regulate them out of existence or live with the consequences.

Insane to me that folks are willing to pay a $20k-$30k premium over similarly specced midsize crossovers just because it’s electric, with all of the compromises that entails. 

Corporations are involved in a zero-sum death match that precludes moral action for anything other than PR. It’s the politicians that refuse to reign them in that are to blame. Though to some extent, because of Citizens United, they are also involved in a zero-sum death match of campaign financing. I’ve resigned…

The market is free when it comes to corporations offshoring labor in pursuit of ever-growing profits, not so much when it comes to giving access to lower-cost options to US consumers. Heads I win, tails you lose.

It’s sort of funny that we couldn’t help ourselves with the performance possibilities of EVs so we just HAD to make every one of them accelerate like a Lambo.

I suppose that if you have shortages that lead to markups for long enough, you’ll naturally decrease demand, though I’d doubt that’s Toyota corporate’s strategy. Most companies seem to simply hire/layoff to accommodate ebbs and flows in demand.

Well, it’s always both. If demand exceeds supply, the solution is to ramp up supply. Or I guess, make the vehicles less desirable so demand goes down?

1. I know, I’m just impotently annoyed that automakers are juicing CAFE numbers with turbocharged engines that don’t actually improve gas mileage in the real world, unless maybe you do nothing but highway driving.

If it’s still going to have terrible gas mileage, why not go with the tried and true V8?

“Wagons offer drivers the space and utility of an SUV”

The richest country in the history of the world is penny-pinching on “public” transit. That’s so American.

As of 2024 model year, yes. You can still get an NA V8 in the 2023 GX, but those are disappearing.

Correct answer, lock thread.

My retirement plan is to buy a Lexus GX550 after they start coming off lease and then own it for 30 years.

Throw that goon in prison.

Always wanted a manual Mazda 5 as a lover of practical automobiles. Had they ever put a Mazdaspeed engine in it, I’d probably be driving it right now.

I think the calculation for unions is pretty simple: short-term and long-term pain or short-term gain and possibly long-term gain/pain.

I think the calculation for autoworkers is pretty simple: short-term and long-term pain or short-term gain and possibly long-term gain/pain.