Thanks... I just hope the wording was clear. The TL/DR version is simply: very few cars would actually be subject to this, and nearly all that would be, with the exception of some Nissan models, would be able to avoid the tariffs through minor changes in their supply chain that wouldn’t actually require any wage…

Seriously? He’s pushing rampant pollution for the sake of pollution, eliminating environmental protections, eliminating consumer protections, eliminating health care protections, driving the cost of health care up astronomically (after a few years of actual modest increases in cost of providing care), he’s gutting the…

The $16/hr is basically an irrelevant number. The preliminary agreement calls for 40-45% of content to come from factories where wages are $16 an hour or higher. Currently assembly wages in mexico average $7.34 per hour and parts plants run $3.41 per hour.

That seems like you’d have to give a huge raise to those…

It’s $16 an hour.

It’s also basically an irrelevant number. The preliminary agreement calls for 40-45% of content to come from factories where wages are $16 an hour or higher. Currently assembly wages in mexico average $7.34 per hour and parts plants run $3.41 per hour.

That seems like you’d have to give a huge raise to…

The crazy thing is the people who are really deranged about trump are those who think he’s actually doing a decent job and not dragging the country into the toilet.

At least it wasn’t a velvet ant...

And a lot of them are pretty extreme on mileage.

A few years ago, Honda was trying to find million-mile Hondas for a “club” (publicity & advertising stunt).  When they failed to find any, Ford trolled them by finding a small army’s worth of E-series vans near or past a million miles.  There was even one hospital in…

When for the same price I could get 11 of these?

CP.

Frankfurt area...

Once I figured out that detail, it actually wasn’t a bad car, IMO.  I mean, it was no sports sedan, but it served a great niche like the Mazda5 - a vehicle with tons of space, but that didn’t take up a ton of space.  It would be nice if automakers actually sold something like that in the states.

Craziest I get is an Opel Zafira I rented. Manual transmission - ok, this will be fun, right? Well, I’d never experienced a car with a reverse lockout (not normal in the states) - kept thinking I had it in reverse only to have it jackrabbit forward and stall out. Didn’t touch anything, but got awfully close before…

Hey, my last new one was $400 LESS than I could find a 1 year old identically model. No way am I paying more for a car that is older and nearly out of warranty.

Last car I bought was 9 years old with 30k on the odometer, at a dirt cheap price (from aged family member who was giving up driving and wouldn’t take a penny more). But last serious buying decision was made trivially easy for us - the Mazda dealer was willing to part with a brand new 6 for $17,800 plus ttl. No used…

It’s amazing that people insist on arguing this with me when I’ve told them that used prices are often so out of control they’d be better off buying new. It’s constant on this site that people insist that I’m wrong on that.

There’s a simple rule I follow. The average car lasts 15 years or so. So take the negotiated…

Interestingly, a coworker just took delivery of a Model 3. Two days later, we got 5.02" of rain in a single day (2" more in the first few hours of the next day).

My first thought when I saw it in the lot wasn’t “hey, there’s a new Model 3, how cool!”, but rather “hey, look, the bumper is still on!”

And when it comes to delivering products on time or at promised prices, or when it comes to the company’s profitability, those doubters have been right nearly every single time.

Am I the only one who thinks Ford hasn’t done nearly enough to change up the look of this?  The entire side profile seems virtually identical at first glance to a model that will be a full decade old by the time this comes out.

Yep... most interstates through the Appalachians are gentle enough that you never really have to brake significantly going downhill. In an automatic the extra drag through the transmission is enough to help slow you enough to keep your speed from climbing most of the time, and in a manual you’re just hitting the…

On the other hand, I can replace the brake pads on my car for $40 in 15 minutes. A clutch is a hell of a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer. Guess which one I’d rather bias the wear heavily towards?

Attributing the effects of those infrastructure upgrades funded by the city/county to the stadium is highly misleading, though - they could have made those improvements without a stadium, and still had more room to place considerably more businesses that would operate year-round and bring in more spending as opposed…