Sorry, but I see nothing heroic about what he did. Being an asshole doesn’t make you a hero.

I’m not shocked that it would be capable of that speed - I’m just shocked Ford didn’t have a fuel limiter installed.

The real loss in jobs would be among truck drivers. You’d be looking at an entire profession basically driven out of existence - and one of the few jobs left where people can make decent wages without higher education. Also the most common job in nearly every state.

““The private sector is driving this innovation,” she wrote in her opening remarks.”

The private sector is driving it now. Like so much, the basic building blocks were done via government work, in this case DARPA. It’s great they’re taking it and running with it, but let’s not forget these lessons : the private sector…

Someone else gets it!

More like the Spishak Mach 20:

Last time I was in Boston, I had to drive through downtown to the airport, drop off a rental car, and ride the subway back to my hotel near South Boston.

I arrived on the edge of downtown around 3 pm. It took 2 hours to get 3 miles to the airport from South Boston.. I got on the subway and was back in under 20 minutes.…

And roads in the US are largely funded by income and sales taxes. The federal government spends more on roads than it collects in gas taxes, so federal taxes other than the gas tax go to their roads. And at the state and local level, half or more of the total cost of road construction and repair comes from income,…

So they’ll be made at Wayne...

Which means there’s no room at Wayne to produce the Fusion and MKZ.

Which means that Hermosillo must expand for Ford to continue producing the Fusion and MKZ there.

Which means pretty much the same thing as building a new plant in San Luis Potosi would have.

In other words, Trump is full of…

And that is a very stupid approach to take.

Ford of Canada imports almost the same # of vehicles each year from the US as they export to the US. Who is harmed in such an arrangement? If you say “you must build it here to avoid the tax”, the only thing you accomplish is making Ford build a production line in each…

That’s a stupid tactic to take, because it rewards companies who don’t have production here for never bringing it here, while penalizing companies who DO have it here if any of it leaves to remain competitive with the former company mentioned.

If Trump were to say “Nissan, go ahead and build Sentras in Mexico and ship…

1st/ 2nd:

The stupidity of all of this is that it should make little difference to Americans whether the vehicle is imported from Mexico or Japan. Toyota has less production in Mexico than Nissan, but imports a lot more from Japan.

The only thing we should care about in terms of imports/exports is balance of trade. If…

So were there any real issues other than recalls and TSBs prior to the accident? I see no evidence of this, and it seems absurd to overreact to these and ban the brand from consideration if that’s it. Recalls and TSBs happen. No brand is immune, and after having my fair share of makers deny widespread problems and not…

Which European manufacturers would you be referring to?

Or you’re a fool.

1) You stated that manufacturers are using NAFTA to escape unions. Data doesn’t support that.

2) How can the domestic makers be using NAFTA to run across the border wholesale when I provide proof that Ford hasn’t even built a plant in Mexico since then

3) *Percentage* of factories. Ford had 6 factories in Mexico. Now…

If you think their cars are “shit”, odds are you haven’t driven one in awhile... or at least without an open mind.

Old tech?

Good grief. So much old tech that Toyota was so desperate to get to use it that they traded their hybrid patents for it. Yeah, that’s old tech.

So much wrong in this.

When was the last time Ford built a factory in Mexico?
1986.

When was the last time Ford built a factory in Canada?
1981.

When was NAFTA negotiated and passed?
1990-1993

Ford has closed a higher % of their factories in Canada and Mexico than in the US since then.

Your anti-union rant is anti-fact.

He’s still blowing smoke up Trump’s ass.

If Trump manages to get rid of fuel economy standards (realistically, he would likely only be able to stop future increases in standards, not roll them back from where they are currently), the market for EVs and hybrids will get nailed (at least until the next gas shortage). But…