My 16 year old Highlander Hybrid with 272k miles on it would disagree that they are the worst of both worlds. I have owned it the past 9 years or so and put on 130k miles. Literally no service issues outside of brakes, filters (air and oil) and oil changes. I did a new rad due and condenser due to an accident and…

I understand the US wants, needs, jobs back from overseas, but the cars aren’t going to become less expensive if they’re assembled here by not-that-great employees resulting in even more panel-gap and other quality-assorted problems which normally aren’t a problem in the highly automated factories in South Korea/Asia.…

That’s a problem with the managers, not the employees.  If a manager can’t tell by the employee’s capacity and velocity if they’re working or not, neither of them need to be employed.  Having a crappy company culture where there’s no accountability isn’t a good reason to deny an entire generation more freedom and to…

Or maybe they wanted to build a new platform in their home country (where the US and Korea have a free-trade agreement) and there was no indication that credits that have been in place for years would have changed immediately without a phase-out period.

1) It isn’t up to your coworkers to be your friends.  Make friends in other ways. 2) It’s still very, very easy to have a connected, collaborative environment remotely.  I built an entirely new team during the quarantine and using the tools available ensured they had a robust team culture and were able to feel very…

This guy has no idea what real “work” is.  He think strolling around and yelling at underlings is work, like most CEOs, so he can’t comprehend how he’s useful if he doesn’t have people in the office to boss around.  Hot tip: Most CEOs are a waste of money.  

I’m with ya there. I was eyeballing the EV9, but without that tax credit, it’ll be a long wait for me. Might be fine anyways, car prices are still just stupid high, even in the used market.

“even though he only takes about two or three days off per year.”

Also questionable.

/hurriedly writes Terminator reboot, where Skynet is your manager.

Wait, wait, wait. You’re telling me that a billionaire, who can afford to buy and pay for absolutely anything his heart desires including the best childcare in the world, doesn’t see why working from home is beneficial to some of us? Is this the same guy who tweets constantly about plummeting birth rates and how the…

The rule change was put in place far too soon and now the entire BEV market is going to suffer. It’s the same concept as me punishing my kids for not cleaning their room, 0.05 seconds after I told them to go clean their room.

The rules are working (as intended), but the rules were put in place far too soon. It’s the same concept as me punishing my kids for not cleaning their room, 0.05 seconds after I told them to go clean their room.

This is what someone on the wrong side of 20 year office lease might say.

Hyundai’s “$7,500 Lease Bonus Cash” is bullshit. I test drove a Kona EV at Vision Hyundai in Rochester, NY and when I came back I talked lease prices with the sales person. I had just read online about the bonus cash so I asked him what the lease would be with subtracting the $7,500. He told me “the $7,500 bonus was…

Honestly the more suprising part is how some people are so adamant about defending this “inflation” and corporate record profits.

Hear, hear! No tears shed for them. Dealers made record profits the last several years on limited inventory off our backs. I recently called my local Honda dealer about the Type R they had listed as arriving in inventory soon. The salesman told me, “We’re currently taking bids at 20k over sticker.” I will happily piss…

Welcome to supply side econmics.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GPI/group-1-automotive/gross-profit

I’d suggest it’s the other way around - in the past few years, OEMs have focused on building the higher end trims, because the supply constraints were on things like chips which they would have needed for any vehicle trim, so they maximized their returns by only building high-end stuff. And because that was all that…

well it certainly worked for tesla at the outset, but of course things were very different ~10 years ago.