Good unions are generally good for the working class. The power that big businesses have means they can do mostly whatever they want unchecked to increase stock price for their stakeholders.

Lol a union of union workers.

If FCA is saying the IISH test doesn’t reflect real world data, then how about they show us footage from their own crash tests using a similar pre-production level vehicle? Every manufacturer builds vehicles knowing they will have to do well in the standardized crash tests.

The problem isn’t finding ways to spend miles, its that mileage redemption on non-travel is a garbage return on miles. I routinely get about $0.017/skymile for reward flights, but an iPad Pro costs $0.0023/skymile. That’s almost 10x less value.

We’re taking it 2 weeks at a time, so it’s still too early to tell whether the plant will reopen on May 4th. Decisions made next week will determine whether that date is pushed back or not.

The only way this works is if Mazda uses Toyota’s TNGA-L platform, which I know for sure it will not. Otherwise, they better be far into the project to make it a MY23 vehicle.

Now I’m picturing a full pit crew of medical staff performing covid tests as fast as they can.

Give it a little time. When restrictions are lifted and people still aren’t ready to buy cars, there will be more discounts according to how long a car has been sitting on the lot for.

This is really a spotlight on just how much money oil producing companies/countries are making. Anyone who is still pumping means that its profitable for them, event at $20/barrel.

Test drives by appt. only. Then making delears negotiate via email/phone and provide quotes with the price breakdown in writing before people can come into to the showroom to complete the sale. If they want to sell cars, they should ditch the games.

Egregious or not, the new A8 is a great car for a long trip like that. The dudes not driving were probably enjoying their naps with the seat massagers on.

Asian OEM. It was just annouced that the shutdown will continue until May. Production employees have to take 1 day per week of PTO or unpaid for for the last 2 weeks of the month. Non-production employees continue to work from home full-time.

I work for a major OEM that’s not Honda or Nissan. Everyone will continue to be paid, those who can’t work from home are basically on vacation. The only thing we’ve had to give up so far is take a few days of PTO. I think the logic behind that is so they don’t get hit hard at the end of the year when everyone has PTO…

Nothing to see here. They should have separated the Mustangs from the rest of the lot.

Manufacturers tune their cars for fuel efficiency and warranty reasons, so the engines are always detuned. Adding power certainly increases wear, but by how much if the power isn’t over what’s considered “safe” for that engine. No idea where tuners get “safe” numbers from, though.

So Ford wants to get rid of cheap beaters at a time when people are out of jobs and looking to get rid of their 72 month car payments. Just like last time, cash for clunkers will just raise the price of affordable used cars, whose buyers are the most affected.

I’d love to see Aston mechanics who are used to working on rust free, mostly well maintained cars, to torching off bolts on jalops of the commoners. On the other hand, simple repairs on simple cars will probably be welcomed vs. engine out thermostat replacements.

Can we please stop calling every piece of information that doesn’t come from an official press release a leak? Some boner just took a picture of a non-protected slideshow and shared it. It was a dealer conference, Toyota knows that info will be shared.

Dang, I’d probably swap cars more often too if I didn’t get hit with 6% of the purchase price every time.

Just paying the sales tax alone every time adds up to a small fortune if you’re not buying junk.