There are many reasons Studebaker failed. Loewy is one of them.

Nope. This will NOT be the breakthrough car VW needs to actually be a player in USA. Yet again, VW America swung and missed. What is this, strike 14 or something....?

I keep my junk in the garage with the door shut. —Not due to any local law, but because it is respectful and neighborly.

From my experience, it is European “luxury cars” (hello Volvo, Audi, BMW, and MB!!!) that suffer poor reliability. Lexus, Infiniti, and Acura....not so much. As such, the reasoning is not sound.

I made a surf board rack for my 68 Mustang.

Can you imagine the lawsuits if Ford or GM released cars with the exact same autopilot system?....yet the Musk worship enables irrational reverence.

Jeff—Nope.

“intense and technically challenging”

I have never visited this site before.

Other sources of high cost of living include excessive governmental regulations. A good example is “rent control” as implemented in San Francisco and Santa Monica. In both cases, the rental markets have skyrocketed specifically because “rent control” has distorted the markets.

2011+V6 Mustangs. Overshadowed by V8 big brother, but when evaluated as a stand-alone car, does many things very well.

TESLA needs to be sued into oblivion for marketing such a flawed, incomplete,deadly, beta-test level product.

Thanks David. Your pieces are the only reason I surf to jalopnik anymore.

No. Porsche will soon have their electric cars on the market...as will BMW and MB. TESLA is over.

“Tesla is a great company with great tech, great people, and great prospects.”

Toyota already had a shot at running that Fremont plant...with the GM joint venture called NUMMI. They couldn’t wait to walk away from over-regulated and under-productive NorCal.

Shilling just condemned himself to be the target of the electric car and Muskian twitter mobs...

—This from a NYC resident who us unfamiliar with the term “labor.”

I was hoping the demise of Gawker would help. It hasn’t. From what I see, web auto writers are now exclusively low-earning recent grads who have not been hired for real jobs... and who are willingto eat Top Ramen daily as long as they get press cars to drive...and get taken on junketsby auto marketers starving for…

Thank you for reminding this GenXer that some millennials, like you, though bearded, have not yet reached puberty.