I thought the Fisker Ocean is more like a Volvo XC60 / Mustang Mach-E competitor.  It’s made by Magna Styr, which is good since they’re a well-known auto manufacturer, but Magna typically builds pretty high profit margin cars so I bet it’ll be hard to find one of these for less than $50K.

I’d love a smaller hatchback EV. I drive a Bolt, which is as close as I can get to one. (It hasn’t even burned the house down, yet, despite the pre-recall battery.) I’ve thought about replacing it with the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or Kia EV6, but those seem like *giant* hatchbacks.

Which means it’s 100% vaporware, and unless inflation takes a massive and unexpected turn in the next 5-10 years, there is no way that car is selling for $25K. So yeah, I’m going to stand by my opinion that Tesla will never build a $25K car.

In theory I like it, except for #3. I’m not fully on board with extending prison sentences to pay off restitution since the prison sentence should theoretically be set by the judge as a fair punishment.

Arms dealing must not pay what it use to if Mikheev can only afford an $8M yacht. I’d say that $8M barely even qualifies as a yacht, these days.

Yeah I guess his boss and the goon squad must be out of town (maybe they are getting paid better as Russian mercenaries in Ukraine?). I’d guess he wouldn’t survive long near that ship or even in prison.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there is at least one person sane enough to stop the launch between a commander-in-chief type person and the actual launch key. I saw one proposal for the US President that the nuclear launch codes be *hidden* inside someone’s chest cavity, requiring the president to chop open an…

So you want to bring back Debtors’ Prisons in full force?

FYI, as of this year Elon Musk said that Tesla is not working on a $25K vehicle. (It really doesn’t make sense for Tesla to try to compete in this price range since cars like the Bolt, Leaf, Niro EV, etc. already exist close to this price point.  Also, Tesla would need the $7500 tax incentive to be refreshed if they…

Hmm: VW haptics vs. whatever mess Acura puts in the Integra. I haven’t looked at an Acura’s dashboard UI stuff in a few years, but Japanese vendors have a really bad track record at user interfaces, for example the dual-screen crap from Acura, Infiniti, and the general crap that is Lexus UI.

The problem is you never just lob a few nukes. If Country A was stupid enough to launch a few, then Country B will launch nukes at *all* of A’s launch sites plus a few cities. Once B sees the huge ‘reprisal’ launch coming from A, then both countries essentially have every ballistic missile they can fly plus some…

Yet another example of the idiocy of the dealership model of car sales. Too many dealers are a bunch of rich good-ol-boys who have their businesses firmly entrenched in local politics.

An entry level, econo-sized BMW or Audi is *not* the place to go for a luxury experience. Those vehicles are selling the badge, not the experience.

Based on reviews I’ve read for the new GTI, this is not the case anymore.

At this point we’d have to get bodies literally piled up in the streets before a real vaccine mandate passed.  Luckily you’re a automotive enthusiast, because you’ll be driving a lot.

Yes, I’m just taking issue with the language used in the last paragraph. Saying “top vehicle manufacturer” versus “top vehicle manufacturer when sorted by total value of exports” is a quite different, IMO

Um... did you actually *read* anything? F150's built on the North American continent are definitely on both the west and east coast. By saying “east” and “west” I am referring to both “other sides of the continent”.

I was specifically talking about NASCAR + manufacturers. I don’t think there’s an AMG C-class / E-class NASCAR entry, but that would be cool :)

No doubt the NASCAR vehicles have always been impressive feats of engineering within their rule set, but isn’t the entire car’s design done by race car engineering firms. Ford, Chevy, and Toyota engineers never touch a technical aspect of these vehicles except some basic template shape that must be shared with a…

There is, of course, some irony to the fact that America’s top vehicle manufacturer exporter is a German company.