I’m not gonna flat out say a house isn’t worth it, but getting a house has a been a wake-up call for me to realize a lot of the things you take for granted in a good apartment complex, mostly the landscaping and it being someone else’s problem when stuff breaks.

By chasing the American Dream, buying a house and filling the garages and backyard with cars I never had time to drive, I ran myself ragged chasing the things that I thought—that I was promised—would make me happy.

Mexico has single-payer healthcare. So, no, it costs GM nothing to fund health care for its workers.

I don’t find it all that surprising. A communist government doesn’t want their citizenry to have too much (or any) power, and there is strength in numbers, ergo unions are not welcome. 

Money is an issue in terms of cost per unit. It takes X hours of labor to produce a vehicle, and every part of that vehicle has been designed and sourced based on a specific budget allowing for a certain amount of profit margin based on a target sales price. Everything in vehicle production has the cost squeezed out…

There’s an easy solution to all of this, but no one wants to here it:

Protectionism (via Tariffs & Immigration Control).

Job Security or High Wages, you can only pick one without some kind of special skill. 

In some ways, this whole thing with the UAW looks like a ‘no win’ for everyone. They make fair money, I wouldn’t mind working there. They have better benefits than a lot of people.

Not only can they make cars at less cost elsewhere like Mexico, etc., they’re not held hostage by the workforce every few years over wages and benefits. Even if wages were equal in other countries, it’s in GM’s best interest to mitigate the risk of a strike on production by utilizing a non-union workforce where they…

I get that auto workers want job “security” since many of them have worked there for decades. You don’t want to be thrown out at the end on your duff when you’re in your 50's. But honestly, there is a lot of myopic thinking and entitlement views coming from so many of these Rust Belt workers. Sure GM and other…

Literally none of that is how business expenses work in relation to taxes. Nice try though.

Maybe draw some dicks on it just in case!

Really disagree with this, particularly the sports car part of the analogy. They’re actually pretty antithetical to each other. Torch or somebody made this point in an article about being a ‘tough guy’ on the road a little while ago. There are fewer small, interesting cars on the road because these behemoths make it…

Thank God. My 981S were aligned properly - Sans for one wheel that recently got it tire replaced. No wonder why the ENTIRE car has felt off lately.

“Q: What are the odds that we have been spied on?”

Came here to post this. GM had a 90+ days of inventory on dealer lots before the strike began, almost as if they’d planned for the inevitable.

Either the $500M number came straight from the UAW, or this analyst used to work for the RIAA doing calculations on how much money illegal downloads were costing music labels.  One download=one lost sale.  One unbuilt car=one lost sale.  Both wrong.

“...walk inside a Toyota dealer and ask to test drive a Supra, you’re not going to be disappointed.”

If they had put a fast enough processor in the HMI computer (the thing which drives the touchscreen) CUE wouldn’t be so bad. They did improve this in 2016 with the HMI 3.0. Later cars also ditched the all capacitive controls for some membrane like buttons.

At the end of the day, regardless of ‘ring times, which EV would you buy (if you had the money to afford either of them)? For me, it would be the Taycan...