Wonder if the nav system will have a vocal fry voice setting. 

Of course, Kia King-size Krossover, 6 passenger, 6 cylinder, 6 way power seat. Makes total sense. 

Theyll probably change the name to something even dumber for production, like KXT800 or whatever. 

Ive never seen a Challenger in a burgundy/claret color like that, it is really rich looking. Gives the car a whole new image. 

I figure he must mean the Hellcat is impractical? I mean, fuel economy and insurance costs will obviously be worse than the standard Challenger, but that does say just plain Challenger, so I’m confused.

Which would be hilarious, considering that Dongfeng Motor and SAIC both wanted to buy GM (or pieces of GM) before their government funded bankruptcy in 2009. In other words, we go through all that and spend all that money, only to have one of the two rescued companies wind up with the Chinese within a decade anyway. 

FCA is something like 10 times Mahindra & Mahindra’s size in revenue and market cap.

More like Daimler dumped a half dead corpse of a company onto Cerberus, then the global financial crisis hit ca. 12 months later and car sales totally tanked, dragging an already weak Chrysler down the tubes. 

I would agree with a lot of that.

Oh absolutely, it's vicarious enjoyment. Even better, playing with a friend's dog for awhile. They're really nature's antidepressants. 

Dogs are the solution to nearly every unhappiness.

I suppose this was a bit like those Miata-to-Z3 kits that were around in the ‘90s. You scratch your head now and wonder what the point was, but it made more sense in the period in which it was conceived. 

I don’t want this, but, like touch screens instead of knobs and buttons, something tells me that its probably cheaper to manufacture, so we’re going to all get it sooner or later regardless. Have to offset the cost of mandatory autonomous breaking and lane keeping assist, or whatever other system is going to have to…

I honestly think it was so that they would intentionally sell fewer cars. The Smarts must cost so much to build, and/or so much to federalize, that Daimler has concluded they can't turn a profit regardless of volume, so lower volume means lower losses. 

If it means them bringing us something RR with 4 seats, more power to them.

Aren’t Aixams about the same size as a Smart? They have a back seat, and the versions sold outside France aren’t all that much slower. 

Every trip I’ve taken over the past several years:

Smart only sells electric cars in the US, they haven’t had an ICE in their American lineup for several years. It really hasn’t done wonders for their sales figures. 

Daimler seems to have been actively trying to kill Smart in the US for years now.

It was routine SOP at Air West, gate agents had to ask arriving pilots what their flight number was and what city they had just come from.