Let me guess why....because I am black?

The touchscreen auto interface will become obsolete as soon as the whiz kids in tech wonderland mature past 50...and their eyesight suffers. They will then discover that the standard three dial HVAC controller cannot be improved upon.

Uhm, the kinks should be ironed out BEFORE the cars go on sale. Who wants to buy a car still in beta-testing? Eff them....the GM I owned was soooooo awful, I vowed NEVER AGAIN....that was in 1999!

This segment perfectly illustrates the utter insanity that is identity politics.

Do we know the owner is Male...or is somebody just assuming?

Ole Doug there is one of us. True-blue car guy!

They only need one buyer. I personally would be willing to pay it, but I am looking for such a thing at present.

A very poor “investment.” The sticker was $34,500... They paid sales tax...and stored for 15 years....for what, a maybe a $2000 “profit?” They would have been better off buying some Certificates of Deposit or an annuity.

As a guy who was alive while these were in production, lemme tell you: They suck. Slow, boring, unrewarding in every way...just a beetle with a less practical body. Their only real value exists in allowing Boomer hippies to recall their past (stoned) lives...and that sense of feeling relevant again.

Welcoming countless third world culturally hostile illiterates into an advanced liberal democratic Western nation is the work of a “competent technocrat?”

Early 1980s Mazda 626

“Ran when exploded”

Remarkable such an explosion occurred. Achieving the required stoichiometry is not easy. Very surprised the occupants survived....am assuming the explosive PSI increase was ameliorated by an open window.

Sure, dealers have set up “internet sales” departments, but let’s face reality: The dealer franchise system was conceived and implemented before the net existed. The internet has rendered this franchise dealer sales system mostly obsolete—-they don’t really add much value anymore.

Such retailer behavior illustrates why Tesla’s direct to consumer model resonates with so many.

How can any rational person read such material without his/her head exploding?

With regard to automobiles, Western manufactures want access to the enormous Chinese MARKET, not the labor. The only way to access the market is to be the minority partner with Chinese firms. GM, VW, and others have transferred enormous intellectual property into China in the process, and for this I believe The West…

I reject use of the term “predatory.” US firms have decided to play ball with the Chinese government to have access to that market. That the US government decides to engage in “Free Trade” for Chinese exports does not make the Chinese “predatory” — it just makes the US an importer of inexpensive Chinese products,…

If you were an FCA shareholder, would you want the Feds to cancel the highest bid for the company?

Marchionne will sell Ram and Jeep, likely to Chinese interests, for huge sums. Chrysler plants will likely morph into low-margin contract manufacturing for autonomous Uber, Google, and/or Apple-pods. FCA will cease to exist as a going concern in USA, while Sergio and the FIAT controlling Agnelli family walk away…