The whole system they use is flawed. When both “my iPhone takes a couple minutes to connect via bluetooth” and “the torque converter became a bingo roller” are equally weighted as a reliability defect, I lose faith in the accuracy of their report.

Science is NEVER settled, and the debate of science is NEVER over.

Oh look..the people who actually produced that graph shit on the Forbes article..

Your referring to the Koch paid fool, James Taylor. His latest rubish on this topic has been once again, rebutted here:

Exactly, usually zero percent is accompanied by lower cash-back incentives, so you are paying ‘interest’ in the form of a higher purchase price.

Tesla still isn’t profitable. It’s easy to build an uncompromised vehicle when you have no compromises to make to hit a target that will actually support a business model. Tesla had a loss of $338 million over last six months, and their losses have been steadily increasing.

Most people accelerate way too fast.

The circumstances were largely not what people think they were. The “Pinto memo” was actually a reference to NHTSA specification, not an internal Ford c/b analysis. Scroll down to the heading “Schwarz paper”.

They were encouraged to do so by the NTHSA, which at the time deferred to the automakers on production costs and let them make that choice. Not that it isn’t a shitty way to approach production cost calculations, but Ford were not entirely to blame for this attitude.

Except they later proved that the gas tank in the Pinto was no more or less unsafe than anything else built at that time.

The turbo engines are just fine, you just need to look at your driving style. 1/4 throttle in an old V6 may be 70 lb-ft where as 1/4 throttle in a DI turbo I4 may be 120+ lb-ft. You don’t realize how much faster you’re accelerating because you’re driving the same way in a new quiet car.

I have a Fiesta 1 liter. If I…

Fool, if only he have had Neil deGrasse Peele talk to the EPA everything would have been fine.

so, here’s a brilliant idea, DON’T WALK NEAR CENTRAL PARK OR MSG? It’s not like there aren’t thousands of other streets that could be used besides the 84 blocks the city is shutting down.

This just looks ridiculous.

You just about got it. There will be a new model every year, and once your model is >3 years old, it cannot be updated and has to be replaced. Internal battery cannot be changed by the user, and it will have a unique plug that doesn’t work on anything else, probably in some odd voltage, like 259 volts.

Just wait till they change the shape of the iGas nozzle at all the stations to support the iCar5 air mini and all classic iCar’s are left with no choice but to upgrade.

It’s just money. In the end the insurance will pay for whatever stuff is lost.

5 min > 90 seconds.

I agree, they’d not fall to shit overnight, they’d keep slowly fall to shit as they have been since capitalism started running amok under Reagan. Things get shipped overseas along with jobs to save a few pennies on that slightly cheaper toaster for the consumer, hiding the reality that it’s a shell game for huge…

This wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t let Unions be sacrificed on the alter of the supply side cult.