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I did read the reasons and they largely seem unwarranted.

The “poor” crash-tests highlight a very particular kind of test, “the small overlap frontal test,” a test that wasn’t introduced until 2012, well after the Fiat 500L was designed. If you did your research and dig in more closely you would find that the car…

I think this is the main problem with FCA and I think if they want to make significant strides towards improvement their dealer culture needs a bottom-up shake down.

It isn’t a bad car at all. The claims are grossly exaggerated. My parents have one with the DCT with roughly 40k mi on it and it has been great vehicle for them. The power comes on nicely, the ride is great in my opinion, and you hardly even notice the shifts from the transmission. They’ve been averaging 27 mpg in…

I don’t agree with this list at all. It’s the usual contrived bullshit typical of the anti-Italian journalistic effort the continues to pervade automotive journalism.

Oh look another half-assed and biased copy-pasta article from Tom McFartland that conveniently leaves off the Toyota Tacoma...

Batteries are not the way of the future for electric planes, hydrogen is:

Anything without an automated transmission or a common rail diesel engine. There are tractors still made today without either of those that are targeted for 3rd world markets.

I used to work as validation engineer in this industry and literally everyone does this: Kubota, Case-New Holland, Deere, AGCO, Fendt, Klaas, etc.

I’m currently shadowbanned for countinually calling out their unsubstantiated anti-FCA and anti-Italian prejudiced bullshit.

You’re welcome and thank you for ignoring my point about JD Power not being able to get their shit together.

No there aren’t.

Which reliability record? The U.S. JD power that ranks the brands at the bottom or the U.K. JD power that ranks the brands at the top? Also, we have two Fiats (500 and a 500L) that collectively have 60k issue-free miles on them.

I’m sorry for not buying into the false-narrative that routinely get’s thrown around here.…

Initial teething issues should not be conflated with reliability. Let the car exist for a year before writing it off.

pretty much what I expected out of this review, gripes about bullshit no one even thought to even care about or notice and cliches about Italian engineering and reliability.

Skyrocketing costs and debt? Where do you guys get your information? FCA has been consistently reducing their debts in a significant fashion for the past 10 quarters.

Jeep, two luxury brands (Alfa and Maserati), Comau (manufacturing robots), suppliers Magneti Marelli and Teksid. I wouldn’t call that nothing, unless you’re a myopic idiot.

Most dissapointing car brand for me is Mercedes. They used to make bulletproof vehicles like this:

Us 5th-gen VFR owners are a weird bunch but I can’t think of another bike with the same quirkiness and versatility right around the $3k mark. Here’s my VFR in the middle, next to two others on a rainy day in Northern California:

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