At least they didn’t mention all the Little League teams the dealers support in their letter to Volvo. If we get get rid of the car dealers, where will local youth sports get their uniforms?!? We should all suffer an expensive and painful car buying experience so that youth sports can get a $500 donation from the…

Good bye and good riddance.

And a few middlemen apologists always come through with the same tired arguments that convince no one. Franchised dealers offer no value whatsoever to the consumer. And frankly, the infinitesimally small number of positive experiences at dealerships across the country speaks volumes to how fucking awful they are.

Don’…

If sales of new products isn’t where they make their money, why are they fighting direct sales? They could reduce their overhead, allow the OEMs sell to the customers who want to go that route, and hang on to the used car and authorized service center revenue.

Let me guess, you’re a dealer? We just want to buy cars from the manufacturers where they’d compete on price against each other in the segment. RAV4 or CR-V would be like Samsung and Apple coming out with their new CUV with price competitiveness.

I almost never approve of means testing any government program. What if I made 50 grand on my 2019 tax returns, but lost my job in March 2020? Do I not get any incentive? What if I don’t have a job, and therefore don’t live within 10 miles of where I don’t work? Do I not get any incentive?

Open it up to everyone and…

Until EV marketshare becomes significant enough to really dent gas tax revenue, this seems a solution in search of a problem. Right now, the biggest problem with the gas tax is that it’s been the same since the early 1990s. Yes, EVs get a free ride, but we are already giving people up to $7,500 cash to buy an EV. If…

I’m sure I’ll get lots of push-back on this, but in a world where the Rivian R1S, and the Model X and Y exist, these things are going to depreciate catastrophically.

“Sounds like you should get a truck.” No the CAFE laws should be changed so that unless a truck is registered to a business it isn’t exempt from the MPG restrictions and tax breaks. A “rational market” would have these things vastly more expensive to run than they are for a end consumer. They are effectively being…

Lot’s of comments about personal views of vehicles, but the most important point was the first paragraph:

Unfortunately it’s not something like people judging others for wearing black jeans instead of blue ones.  The choice results in more fuel usage, the associated emissions, and deaths that are higher than they otherwise would be.  Not that many Americans seem to give a shit about any of that.

big surprise where they get the association....

i skimmed the 150 comments so far and it seems like people are missing the point of the cultural anti-truck criticism. you want to carry stuff? get a truck, no one cares. you think trucks are “neat”? great, get a truck, no one cares. the problem is that there absolutely is a contingent of truck owners that bought them…

Since getting a tesla, I’ve noticed some better behaviors during road trips.

Here in Finland less than a quarter of cars have AWD and it snows everywhere. It’s not an issue unless you are an idiot.

I disagree with the road trip comments. We have a Chevy Bolt. In our case charging seems to pretty much line up with lunch and dinner stops for us. Admittedly, we’re slower drivers. Still, the timing of the charge means we go have our lunch, and then later dinner. We know we have the time to sit, and we do. That means…

“The good thing is talks have not broken down”

I live in DC and these are ubiquitous. I would guess 80% of the cars I see are these or GLE’s.

Or at least, if you have put yourself in the situation where you NEED a car that very day you are a complete and utter dumbass.

This will happen 100% ^