I ride with a bunch of Harley guys and no way in hell they will buy an electric HD.

Hot take, but that seems rather slow for a 416HP AWD vehicle. Lots of other cars are doing sub-4, with less horsepower or even without AWD.

Pretty much this. I put deposits down on multiple cars because the wait lists were months long and no dealer was willing to guarantee a deposit meant a car.

If you have an allocation for another car you’ve been waiting on, why go buy another car? Just keep waiting for the one you want.

I’m no longer impressed, BTW, with the Corvette “performance for the money” talk.

So the E-Ray is the 911 Turbo of the Corvette lineup. There’s nothing wrong with that. Not every sports car needs to be a track weapon (even in the upper trim levels).

the voting power of a voter in California when it comes to electing presidents, 1.5x the voting power in the house and 78.5x in the senate

You can get one new, but the price is insane. Most cars, even performance cars, have basically kept up with inflation, while improving dramatically over the years.

To be fair, the majority of people who are saying this have probably never driven a GT-R, they are just parroting what reviewers are saying (or worse, parroting people who are parroting reviewers).

Honestly, since they didn’t give a damn about the weight and size of pickups and SUVs before, I have a hard time taking them seriously about EVs. A Mustang Mach E is 4800lbs, which is less than a full size pickup, way less than a Tahoe, and within a (fat) passenger of a Hellcat (!!).

Just take a normal looking car, and make it electric!

$2500 extra for a really cool and fairly unique color from the factory is actually quite cheap.

since Audi introduced us all to Nardo Gray

I’m curious how he knows the internal strategies of other companies. Do auto execs tend to let the competition know what they are planning?

Luxury goods tend to be more recession proof than regular items.

The Mazda3 sucks. It’s so far behind the Civic in terms of usability that it essentially exists in a different class. The back seats are so small it might as well be a four-door coupe. And overall hatch space isn’t great either.

Luxury products always do well during recessions. Not just high-end luxury products either, “normal people” luxuries like good makeup and top-shelf booze tend to outperform during recessions. 

I’d be happy if dealerships would update their websites to reflect accurate inventories.

In 2011 we also weren’t staring down the barrel of a recession.

It’s probably not “average wage” people who are buying “average new cars”. It’s top quintile households buying “average” or above new cars and everyone else buying used or the cheapest new cars.