Most people are renters? 64.3% of households in the US are homeowners.  So most people can’t be renters when nearly 2/3 of people are homeowners.

Yes, there’s a problem with EV adoption for renters, but there’s still an enormous market for homeowners.

Yep.

Though every once in awhile, I find a good one.

I had a CX-9 as a loaner recently. For a tall person with long legs, that thing was absolutely miserable. For its size, it would be hard to do worse, IMO. Otherwise a great vehicle for its class, but just misery for tall people.

What I wish more would do is what Ford…

The 2.4% is for residents. If you live outside the city and work inside it, they tax you 1.2%. I’d wager nearly all Ford employees working there would live outside the city.

But the 2,500 is Ford employees only, according to Ford, not contractors. That pushes the average among those 2,500 WAY up as it excludes…

This is a far superior suggestion to the S-Cargo.

These so-called experts largely don’t know what they’re talking about.

As someone who is 6'6" with long legs, the Sonata is mediocre at BEST. It suffers from a lack of thigh support, similar to what the Ford Fusion suffered from during the ‘10-’12 model years (‘06-’09 and ‘13+ are MUCH better).

WRX? Even worse.

Colorado?…

You think they still have secretaries?

Ford has said they will have 2500 company employees there.

Janitors are outsourced and not company employees.

Big difference here - The Ford deal is guaranteed to bring the city more money than they’re getting now.

Well, it put them on the map

I’m not a fan of corporations demanding things of cities and states.

But this property has been sitting vacant for decades. There has been no evidence whatsoever that it would be refurbished and used again. So your options seem to be to accept the measly little bit in taxes they get now or give some sort of a break.

And…

The person I was responding to was comparing the situation with that in America, and he said vehicle, not car.

Expedition and Super Duty say your statement isn’t correct.

The rest of Ford’s lineup is suffering in terms of updates largely because they pushed so many in a giant wave a few years back, rather than spacing them out over time. They also suffer some because they have a nasty habit of making very minor styling changes…

I wasn’t intending to imply it was just import control - but that import control is what affects the trade level. You’re correct that it is much more complex than just import control. But yeah, there’s no way that trade in dairy gets opened up like he wants without significant structural reform. And when people here…

Heh... If we could get our labs down to $111M, we’d be ecstatic. :)

The stupid thing about milk is that he could be totally screwing over the dairy farmers he claims he’s arguing for.

Both Canada and the US support their dairy industries. Canada does it by the government controlling supply. Below a certain level of imports, there are no duties. Above that, they face stiff tariffs,…

That certainly is the most economical thing for you.

But in terms of the environment, not likely.  People too often think about the environmental impact of making the new car vs. the efficiency gains of the new car vs. the old.  But that’s the improper comparison when it comes to efficiency / emissions gains.  Because…

4th: So because Cheeto Benito doesn’t like dairy trade policies, he’s willing to blow up all trade? Frickin’ idiot...

FWIW, you can’t expect Canada to dump tariffs on some US dairy products (not all are taxed, btw) while the US government so massively subsidizes the US dairy industry. If we expect them to get rid of…

As someone who works in an industry that people often deride as “basic” or not “high tech”, I’d advise you might be surprised. I can’t say for certain what they had in their building, obviously, but you could still easily have lab equipment studying foams, outgassing, accelerated wear, etc, that would be very…

Still better than Texans.

“It’s “Mustang-inspired”? What does that mean?”

It clearly means watch out, pedestrians. 

Apart from everything else, it isn’t unusual for industrial R&D centers to sell for far less than they cost to build.  The construction cost generally includes lab facilities that slowly lose their value.  Last R&D center my employer closed was worth so little by the end that it was simply bulldozed.