They sold 68,000 Edsels in 1958. I’m betting they all thought it was nice looking.

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I haven’t driven an electric vehicle, but I’m wondering if the lack of sound is disconcerting to first timers? Is the golf cart difference a valid example? That the truck weighs three tons is worrying to me when low experience drivers are behind the wheel. I’m of two minds on electrics, with no consensus in sight.

You guys who want no dealers - what is the alternative? Even with the franchise contracts, dealers have a hard time getting timely payments for warranty work, but you think someone in the RenCen will respond to your problems with your car? The dealer body watched while their cred circled the drain and now see their…

Damn, are Americans that stupid? This same war was fought in the 1930's, but we haven’t been paying attention. I’m guessing this is a response to OEM’s whittling away at the original franchise laws passed state by state decades ago. If I had invested decades of family time and money while having to toe the line on…

This isn’t anything new. Standard practice was -especially on weekends - to roll the customer and have them “guarantee financing” in the special memo section. Then, after bragging to the neighbors, they would move heaven and earth to get the money. Sometimes from the mouse house. That was in the days when a low number…

What name was he using on Rat Patrol? Gudeganst? I’m not googling it, but it wasn’t his current moniker.

Bullshit. I’m 69 and could care less that I have never watched the damn thing. Don’t paint us with the same brush and I will do the same.

Think whatever you want - just give me the DeTomaso. I’ll suffer in silence.

Just because the seller is buried doesn’t mean I need to follow suit. ND

Levinson, Link, et al, introduced Colombo in a black and white episodic series I cannot recall in the late ‘50's. For maybe five scenes. 

The product of generations of inbreeding. 

What are we going to do with millions of battery packs from electric cars? The ones I have seen dismantled look like a shitload of AA all connected by strips of aluminum. How do they even stay in series? My two battery flashlight has connection problems after one winter in the glovebox.

Passed on a C55 last spring at $5700 with 80k. This would be a dice roll with one less zero. Sorry for the pessimism, but the various switches and sensors always kill these things.

All you need to know about the car business and Wall Street is encapsulated in the valuation of Tesla. You could not hope to get 10% of value through liquidation while Ford and GM would bring multiples on their share price in property valuation by itself.

You can adjust that box with nothing but a jack and a box end.

I was in the car business from age 10 washing and polishing my family’s stock and doing every other task imaginable. Then, after telling my father I would never wash another car, my only offer after school was GMAC. My point is that while many see this as a way to wealth, by far more learn the hard way that it is very…

Using the word “woke” tells me you’re liberal only for the sake of commentary on this site.

When I was in high school, my friends girlfriend filled his GTO with diesel. Smoked all week, but managed to drive it until it was dilute enough to get back to normal. Car was fine.

I’m sorry for being an old dinosaur, but a performance car also makes certain noises. I understand that there has been sixty years since my childhood, but once you’re raised on V8 and V12 sounds - it’s like a junkie going from Thai powder to Mexican mud. There’s no going back.