I don’t buy this story for a second. I could see the Taurus and Fiesta dying, but realistically the Fusion pulls in huge sales and the Focus isn’t too shabby, either. Kill the Taurus and Fiesta and then Focus/Fusion sales are bound to rise. If anything, they’ll simply rationalize production volumes.

Well, it doesn’t really even throttle supply. Manufacturers can continue to build whatever they want and simply pay $140 per mpg they fall short of the standard (that’s what this ruling does, enforcing the $140 instead of the $55 penalty).

So if they could build the CUV people want at 35 mpg instead of a required 40…

Last I called Ford to read them the riot act on this in February , they claimed parts would be available this spring for my 06 Fusion. The time before when I called them, Oct 2017, they claimed the parts had not been released for production.

Maybe, just maybe, they’ll get them soon.

Thank god Mazda didn’t screw around…

Yeah - that’s the lovely deal I was offered....

“To compensate you for your trouble, we would be pleased to offer you a loaner car for $35 per day until the parts are available” at some point in the distant future, probably years away.

Freakin’ money making scam they have in those rentals. It would be cheaper to buy a…

“specially if you don’t live in a hot humid climate.”

But the idiots in charge think that St. Louis is neither hot nor humid. I’d like to buy them tickets to see a Cardinals home game in August and see if they change their $#@! minds.... 

Reminder : Ford still hasn’t released the redesigned airbag for my 2006 Fusion for production, nearly 2 years after it was recalled. I can’t replace the airbag if they don’t make the part.

Not sure how serious you’re trying to be.

Because think of it this way - imagine your car does nothing but cruise down the highway at 60 mph for 100,000 miles. That’s 200 million revolutions of the crank. You are WAY out to the far right side of those curves - where most materials are pretty flat. To get them to fail…

“people know how loans work”.

If only that were true. I’ve recently seen letters to the editor defending payday loan companies charging an average interest rate of ~590% APR (no, I didn’t forget a decimal point there) here in Ohio by arguing that no one is complaining about the big banks ripping you off even worse by…

What advantage?

They would no longer be liable for providing the market with parts and service. It would be incredibly expensive to keep those sources available all for a money-losing venture that you could more easily and profitably just shut down by taking all the cars back.

Another good one:

Cars are designed (via planned obsolescence) to fall apart after 10 years. (or 8/6/etc, whatever nonsense you want to believe).

Look, you seriously want us to believe that their engineers are THAT good that they can design a car to last precisely x years or y miles and not one bit more?

EASY.

That car companies could build a 100 mpg car but aren’t because they’re conspiring with oil companies.

1st: It’ll be fun to watch the fan boys continue to defend these lunatic projections...

Funny, and here the rest of us were, knowing that Tesla is more concerned about managing headlines than anything else. No other car company goes around pushing its own storyline at the beginning of an investigation like this.

Certainly not a Ferrari... we don’t need another fire and another car lost...

The irony is that the GOP was claiming that Chrysler was going to the Chinese under Obama, but now it looks far more likely under Trump.

Ferrari is an independent company - merging with FCA would get you 0% ownership in Ferrari.

Except Ferrari is an separate company now. Sergio is the CEO, but the stock is completely separate. It wouldn’t come with a merger with FCA

Is there any value to FCA outside of Jeep? I doubt it.

“ a requirement which we believe fundamentally affects public safety negatively.”

Translated:

We’re desperate for cash and this requirement prevents us from publicly denying any fault, which impacts our ability to boost the stock price or raise capital funds.

anytime the contractor gets a cut of the revenues, you can guarantee they’re going to be miscalibrated. Only way to have any hope of the things being properly run is to have a flat rate with the contractor and for them to be liable for proper, verifiable calibration.