I think you are missing their motivation. GM would love to sell direct, they are already testing that water with used cars. The problem is they have 4,300 dealers in the US that are their face to consumers. Its like if you sell widgets and have a bunch of sales guys working for you. You cant just start pooking them in…

No, it says only manufacturers that only sell electric cars can open their own dealers. So GM would just have to stop selling all its other cars and then it could open up a Chevy Bolt store.

Typical ignorant liberal media bias from the Evening Standard. Those aren’t Reliant Robins. Those are Reliant Rialtos...

Don’t forget the Alyssa Walker story: This Bad Evil Car Got Exactly What It Deserves Because All Cars Are Evil And Bad.

The backstory to this custom Camaro can be found on Jezebel with the title: “Evil boyfriend causes sweet young lady to get calluses on her hands from hammer”

I have a friend who was a cop and he always said that Reno 911 was to him the most realistic TV show about police work.

To piggyback on rwp’s point, my company prohibits cars older than 2012 from being newly enrolled in our reimbursement program and has a maximum age limit of 10 years for any vehicle enrolled in the program.

A running, driving, and fairly clean car for under $2K is a good deal no matter what it is. If you get a year or two out of it without any major repairs then you’ve done okay.

Funny, I thought the same exact same thing... A fine auto and a well done ad.

This would also apply to older drivers who really shouldn’t be driving due to issues with eyesight, physical ailments, and slower reaction times. I can see a bunch of those jellybean shaped self-driving Google cars in Florida now :)

$10k will be the option price on the larger capacity battery. Add in the better seats, tech options, etc. and you’re likely looking at a $50k car before incentives.

I agree. I think other factors will of course be the number of autonomous cars in your area. Theoretically, these cars will be better drivers than people, and with more AI cars, the roads safer. The end result would be that cities that see higher integration would also see lower costs. Cities full of slack jawed…

I’ve seen a perfectly preserved Citation being driven by a teenage girl within the last year. I don’t understand it, but was somewhat impressed.

My brother was a K-car nerd. He kept his wife’s silver Plymouth Reliant 2-door forever then bought a teal green Plymouth Acclaim that he drove forever.

I’ve been on an insane 1970's retro car kick and it’s hard to find anything that is not a rustbucket or priced more than a loaded new Mustang.

No significant risk but because it’s a nuclear leak, people will flip out.

See.....that's why I like it here! :))

At this point, I’m much more impressed by a clean stock example of these cars. It’s gotten hard to find one that hasn’t been made into a hot rod. Hot rods made sense in the 1950s and 60s when these were nothing more than old cars you could get from the junk yard cheap. Now, building a hot rod is just ruining a 80+…

Yes. Swivel seat would be perfect for my obese mom and disabled dad. I’m surprised it hasn’t made a comeback.

Swivel seats went away because nobody really cared about them and they added cost to the cars. When all the GM A-body intermediate cars were downsized for 1978 the swivel seats went away.