Call me crazy, but I think they’ve sold a majority of the Cybertrucks they’re ever going to sell.

Did American consumers abandon sedans/smaller cars, or did American manufacturers do that?  

If Stellantis listened to their customers why the fuck would their customers be abandoning them?  Just more corporate speak from executives that aren’t fit to run a lemonade stand.

It’ll never happen. Too many companies profit tremendously off people being ignorant, and tons of lobbying happens by those companies to make sure it stays that way. 

His comment about Tesla highlights the massive conflict of interest Musk has. No CEO should be in government, much less the world’s richest, with lucrative government contracts.

At this stage, whenever I hear “diesel shop”, I hear “illegal”,”rolling coal”, “fraud”, and “con”.

It’s not legalized. It’s decriminalized. The difference being that the cops won’t stop you, but it’s still your fault if you get hit by a car outside of a crosswalk. It’s a small but important difference. They did the same thing here in Hawai’i, and people here were also given the wrong understanding by articles…

For me the criteria would be a beautiful, relatively affordable and desirable sports car produced in low numbers: A used Alfa Romeo 4C.

Remember when Obama was inaugurated? Ram had already been building the truck currently known as the Ram 1500 Classic for several months before he was even sworn in. It isn’t just old — it’s old old.

They are caught in a doom spiral that is the inevitable result of cost cutting. Cost cutting leads to less R&D and cheaper feeling vehicles, which leads to needing to tap subprime and fleet sales to move metal (upmarket buyers don’t want dated cheap-feeling vehicles). The subprime and fleet sales keep the cash coming…

Self inflicted wound. They let innovation and design language stagnate to the point they became irrelevant. They threw good vehicles in the bin (Maxima, Q50, Q70) because they did not want to invest in making them better. They dropped a whole segment of the market. This could have been avoided, but they assumed good…

The Subaru Outback.

Diesel pickup are cool and have their place, but these assholes rolling coal in the faces of pedestrians and cyclists can fuck off.

A friend of mine has a custom Sprinter van, and let me say, for people who have never been on one, you really wouldn’t want to be driven in anything else unless you’re by yourself (or with one other passenger), worried about parking, or care more about exterior appearances of a vehicle you’re being chauffered in.

Setting aside this vehicle China factor, vans really are the best vehicle for ultra-luxury due to interior volume. There’s room for full blown lazy-boy style seat with plenty of headroom when you have a low floor and high ceiling. SUVs have too high a floor and sedans have too low a ceiling.

Too bad they didn’t give it the new GR Yaris interior too. I know it’s been somewhat divisive, but I love it. Very retro and driver-centric. Much better than the ‘ipad glued to the dashboard’ look.

I think the economy is doing worse than people are admitting. Inflation might be down-ish, but those prices are here to stay. People are starting to just not buy things. Fast food, luxury goods and, and cars are what we are seeing now, but as people tighten their belts even more I expect to see the R word popping up…

According to capitalism and the law of supply and demand, this must mean we have lots of ultra cheap cars now just to offload these cars and recoup any costs at all, right? Right? Oh, that only applies in the other direction.

Two things: First, it would take a special kind of stupid to have in your hands a six year old car with 989 miles on it and not think that the owner wouldn’t notice that you put 20, 10 or even 2 miles on it.

The 401 is a nightmare. I try and stand up north on the 407 as much as I can.