Mr. Westbrook good sir: How about you try writing headlines in a more professional manner? Neither world politics nor excrement is relevant to VW gearboxes—manually actuated or otherwise.

In 20 years I expect to see a dedicated “automous vehicle” lane along Interstate 10...for big rig trucks. On/off ramps will be placed about every 50 miles, likely with holding yard at each exit. A local driver will deliver the loaded truck to the yard, and it will then be placed in autonomous mode and sent on the…

“Yes, there’s Tesla, but even Elon Musk will tell you they are the exception and not the rule.

Ford gets all this grief while Tesla sell cars with dangerous beta-test autpilot systems and poorly protected battery packs and is viewed as the product of a Divine Prophet.

Key word “stories.”

Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless. Nobody is smelling carbon monoxide.

Hopefully this will keep Ballaban sufficiently busy that he won’t have time for political commentary.

Hopefully this will keep Ballaban sufficiently busy that he won’t have time for political commentary.

There is a reason that contemporary Mitsu sales are ALWAYS about rebates, discounts, and credit. Mitsu products can’t compete at any other level.

All this VW fetishizing is unseemly. Go beat off to something that has a pulse.

I used to drive one of these..during my college years I drove the bus part time.

TESLA is gifted a whole factory in CA. The workers in the plant complain of abuse to a deaf NLRB. The products released are essentially beta test units....and St. Elon grabs yet more tax breaks, governmental incentives, and breathless hagiographic interviews. Hmmmm....smell something? Me too. It’s bovine excrement.

Unknowing millennial Alex:

“Production hell” is not encountered by manufacturers who are good at what they do.

Do you think, next time, you could choose a picture that is just a bit more gay?

Other than a home, a car is the most emotional purchase many of us make. Marketers have done a very good job of attaching social status and significance to cars, and most enthusiasts are powerless in the grip of this invisible, but profound, power.

Bolt is the Tesla Model 3 without Tesla bragging rights. Unlike Model 3, its available, reliable, fairly priced, and not burdened by Elon Musk hype.

Probably stuck there with a dead battery.

Author Alex: your “About the Author” blurb says you are Lance Tedford. What gives?

Let’s cut the bovine excrement. The diesels are going to the crusher. End of story.