The real Real REAL story is that there is a huge demand for highend pickup trucks in China, and the manufactures, the dealers, and the governments are working together to NOT make that money.

Maybe this is VW’s twisted way to prove their upper management genuinely knew nothing about the cheat?

1st Gear: in June of 2024, researchers from Cal Poly Univ will make another startling discovery: there is a piece of code hidden deep in the ECU for all VW group cars since the early 80s; it draws an ASCII art version of Hitler himself giving the salute, while simultaneously disables all emission control devices. In…

No, he needs a motorcycle; ideally, a dual-sports one.

I’m not going to buy a VW until after Winterkorn serves a long prison sentence.

Imagine a new type of internal “combustion” engine that runs on Coke and Mentos!

What a senseless thing to do! You are only 20 minutes away from some of the world’s best driving roads in the Santa Monica mountain, yet you street racing a Dodge on a flat road.

If I were the management, I’ll make two versions of the identical car, one with big bold badge saying “Made in Sweden”, while the other doesn’t have such a badge. Then I’ll charge 40% more on the first model. People will surely snap them up because Sweden!

Your thirty year old Volvo station wagon will become a thirty one year old Volvo station wagon next year. Are you going to sell it and buy another one, and redo all the flame stripes on the side?

Print a dozen fake ones, each with a different address in nearby towns. Only you know which one is real.

Nothing prevents you, or anyone else, from creating a Uber-like company that treats drivers as employee, pays more, offers generous benefits, and welcomes the driver to unionize.

I used to own a 6-speed E60 M5. After the factory warranty expires, I was in constant worry that VANOS pumps are ready to blow; the weird ticking noise doesn’t help either. I even bought a new laptop, the canbus cable, and software to do the VANOS pump check; but I never got the software to work.

Faster Camry to perform better triple blocking on the freeway.

No Hookers in California.

There is a better solution.

LOL very true. This is the thing every new thing faces. In the beginning, everyone be like “this is a million times better!” After a while everyone be like “it has so many problems!”

Despite all the setbacks, I do wish FF luck in breaking into the auto industry. It is not an easy job; even Apple, with its deep pocket, is giving up the manufacturing-aspect of making a car. And on top of the enormous amount of difficulties facing any US startup, let’s sprinkle a heavy dose of culture difference,…

Mazda, you want to reach the “rich” buyers? Very easy: make me a full carbon-fiber-tub Miata with Rotary engine and very fancy suspension.

Not that surprising; it is the kind of things nerds do.

The only logical next step after the merge of Tesla and SolarCity is to sell the combined entity to Geely, the Chinese parent of Volvo: