Bernie wasn’t against the automotive bailouts. He voted for them, but the vote to bailout the auto companies alone failed. He voted against TARP, the Wall Street bailout, which the Bush administration later (after it passed) tapped to provide funds for the auto industry.

Do you want to talk about how much less the government would have collected in taxes and how much more they would have paid out in unemployment, food stamps, etc, had GM and Chrysler been allowed to close down?

Any objective analysis shows the government (us) was in FAR better financial position because of the bailouts…

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Let’s just say Trump did manage to get a 35% tariff thrown on Fords imported from Mexico. It would be a ridiculously stupid move. Why? Because Mexico would immediately retaliate with a tariff on vehicles imported from the US (and Ford sells a fair number of US-built vehicles in Mexico). Furthermore, you’d be…

I tried to buy a Focus EV a little over a year ago when the factory rebates and federal tax incentives had them down to about $16k here in Ohio according to TrueCar, but there were -none- in stock - they only stock them in states with significant state credits, and the factory rebates were only good on in-stock models.

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Not really.

California, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Louisiana, Illinois, Tennessee, South Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts are the only states left with rebates or tax exemptions. NJ gives a sales tax exemption for BEVs but not PHEVs.

Most states are actually just giving…

The federal credit goes away after a set number of sales per maker. With Tesla’s promises on Model S and X deliveries, most people will end up comparing a Bolt WITH a $7500 federal tax credit vs. a Model 3 WITHOUT one.

See my note above about the tax credits. The Bolt won’t likely be more expensive in the end... unless Tesla sales flop in the meantime, but that brings up the question of whether the model 3 would ever make it to production.

Of course the catch is that if Tesla sells as many Model S and X’s as they are promising wall street, there will be very few (if any) Model 3s that qualify for the federal tax credit. So they have to hit their price target AND delivery date target to have any hope of getting this thing into the mid to upper 20s after…

Forget that . THIS is the one I wanted:

“The Model 3 will compete with the likes of the BMW 3 Series, the Audi A4, the Mercedes C-Class, and the Lexus IS, so it expect it to be a lot like those.”

And you know this how? I haven’t seen any promises from Musk relative to this. I have heard him say we should expect significant de-contenting. Do much of that and…

I had a similar issue after upgrading - but after I backed everything up and did a factory reset, things worked great again. I don’t think the upgrade process was foolproof by any stretch, so a complete wipe and reset followed by reinstalling apps worked great for me. Might be worth a shot for you.

Good data.

And it shows how overhyped this is. $1.1 billion in bad loans identified in a single quarter when you have over $1 trillion outstanding. That’s actually an annualized default rate of under 0.5% based on value of bad loans as a % of overall loans outstanding.

It also shows the concern about people borrowing…

3) Ford has over $100 billion in debt on the Ford Motor Credit side used to fund loans. That should tell you something, when one company by itself has more than $100 billion in outstanding loans that they have funded. That’s not even counting the loans on Ford vehicles funded through other financing companies.

Really? What’s wrong with your G? I’ve got a 1st gen from Republic. It was getting slower and slower until I upgraded to Lollipop. Now I only have issues when I try to run obscene numbers of apps at the same time.

And car loans are based on the assumption the asset depreciates. The % of loans that are delinquent is actually very small currently, and most loans are structured to guarantee that the bank doesn’t lose money as long as the buyer doesn’t default in the first year. Those going ape over this truly don’t understand…

3rd: I still think its criminal that Honda is getting replacement parts while others struggle to, considering the evidence that Honda knew about this defect years before anyone else and did nothing - essentially putting the other makers at risk.

1) exactly. It’s like car reviews telling me not to buy a car because their 5'2" reviewer didn’t find the seats comfortable. I’m 6'6" and I might. I can also get my smartphone to be my GPS - works just as well and a hell of a lot cheaper to upgrade. Just tell me if some central function breaks, not some stupid…

Yeah, I just looked and the spreads are closer than they used to be - the average Ford bill was £317.47 and the average Toyota bill £397.31. The Ford comes in at slightly lower hours to repair.

They used to report yearly average costs and time off the road - and that was what was really interesting - rather than a…

There were some interesting bits of info in there a few years ago when I looked at them.

Such as:

Toyotas break down less often than Fords. However, they cost more per year to repair and spent more days in the shop per year than Fords. In other words, the Ford would break, but be fast and cheap to fix. The Toyota would…

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Ironically, the State of Nevada has also effectively declared war on solar power by killing net metering. In doing so, they’ll create a spike in demand for Tesla batteries made in Nevada but also kill all future prospects for additional sales of batteries in Nevada, because no one in their right mind would…