It’s like Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys) and Mr. Regular had a freakish, foul-mouthed lovechild on their honeymoon in Alberta who grew up to be a trucker.

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I thnk the point is a higher initial price exudes “premium,” then incentives entice buyers with more perceived value.

I love looking back on those and laughing, although they did name cars that were/went on to be hugely popular, this Malibu and the Dodge Neon included. Hindsight makes cars look shitty or something like that.

That’s a good point, though it’s ironic (if they were to go that route) to drop a boxy SUV, the Flex, for a modern, round-y crossover, the new Bronco, which used to be a boxy, badass SUV.

You’re a genius, I’m stealing this technique!

Sounds like Project Swiss Cheese is now a pretty good parts car.

But to say governments have never supported other automakers, or to use that as a dig, is just unfair and inaccurate.

Wait, what? You can buy a Lincoln Continental already? Talk about under the radar....

It’s like witnessing Mercedes rocket the S Class into technological stardom, then letting it all trickle down into cheaper vehicles. Tesla’s doing this, just without the existing model base and no cheap models to trickle down to-yet. I’m very, very excited.

I actually knew a kid in high school who bought a Jeep with the 3.0, bragged for months about how awesome the car was and how stout the engine was. Then he literally blew a hole in it. To him, it was more a testament to his wild, abusive relationship with cars than any fault with the engine itself. “Yeah man, I blew…

Yeah, it must have been her instincts kicking in (since she depended on the vehicle for her work and kids). She also probably only had liability insurance on it, too, though, so she’d be pretty fucked without it!

They brag when the engine lasts, they brag when it blows up. Jeep guys, ya know?

This is causing such an uproar! I’m all in the camp of “this is awesome,” and I can’t see why anyone would be against it... It just means we Jalops can get some luxury and tech when we buy a 12-year old used pickup.

But I think the problem there was why you would buy the Lincoln badge when you could just option out an F-150 to the same spec for less money. Mercedes actually has a respectable brand cachet, so there’s less to overcome in bringing theirs to market.

You backwards Luddites can keep your Chevys, then.

That’s just wrong. Sure, you love your truck’s ruggedness, but people like to have a truck and also have a life that may involve a fancy night out, a long road trip, or ferrying an elderly parent to doctor’s appointments. If someone can do all that, and then go to work the next day and haul a thousand pounds of…

I love MINI’s non-minis, they’re such a cool package of fun, eclectic, off-road, whatever. That plug-in hybrid is insanely enticing, and probably the one I’d get. Still, I would rather have one with a stick shift, but I don’t think that’s a reasonable request these days :[ Sad!

Why couldn’t they have put all their time, money, and efforts into just building a reliable, high-tech car that can be produced at a cost that’s actually affordable? This isn’t revolutionizing cars, it’s just making them more complex and solving one problem by adding ten more. It’s like they’re almost admitting, “We…

I assume this woman will want punitive damages, probably to cover the cost of a lifetime of therapy for the whole family.