Don't they and Kia already make like 4 versions of this same car? Rio5, Accent, forte5 and soul. Yet GM has one economy hatchback.
solomonrex
solomonrex
I figured out the MPG thing. Ford's basically a European maker, GM was bankrupt, Chrysler is half-European everyone else significant is heavily invested in Europe and/or Japan, Kyoto signers. So they have to develop the same MPG standards for their core models, it's cheaper to sell one thing globally, why not sign…
It means 'the camino' in Spanish...
VW news: Beige marches on. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth and dogs howl at the gates while fwd is tested in Bavaria. Enthusiasts mourn. Executives cashing in. More Porsches sold.
Even with the rims, I'd say that's over a thousand on the Jalop scale.
Sometimes I wonder if VW knows that it owns Audi.
CP all the way. But, God the patina! That should be in a museum.
US-spec, American driven, Mexican built VWs have a reputation for reliability somewhere south of 40 year old french metal maintained by half-drunk English mechanics with greasy fingers. But I hear they're not that bad anymore.
I'll go with 007's most glamorous ride...
Yes, you go look up how many jobs were created in the ten years of the Bush tax cuts and I'll sit here under my bridge. I'm sure all those stock buybacks and layoffs by profitable companies were creating jobs ... somewhere. Maybe Shanghai?
The Scorpion strikes back!
If you don't tax the rich, they won't hire you. They'll hoard and spend their money overseas. Perfect example of why Germany has incredibly low unemployment and the US has a poor economy even with rigged statistics.
Looks like Morning Shift went to the ... John Wilkes Booth. YEAH!
Oh, sure 'Hemi' is too colonial and vulgar. 'Kubang' is sophisticated and Continental?
We're really setting the bar low for the word 'concept car' this year. Has everything really been done already? Should the human race just pack it up for the next few years?
I'm a gen x IT pro raised on Gran Turismo so of course GT-R and GT-40 are my dream machines, but a Scion/Subaru are my practical choices. They're reliable affordable quirky options for the darth vader techie generation that doesn't have baby boomer's money or the millenials lack of responsibility. Also, a lot of us…
I don't get your last argument. Dumb rich people buy posh VWs all the time and they're called Audis. Lexuses are Toyotas. Acuras are very much Hondas. That's the way mainstream luxury makers have always made money.
Italian style: good for models, good for supercars, bad for minivans.
I thought about this more and I think Chevy has given up. They want to be the Sam's choice of motoring. Sam's choice 1M, Sam's Choice Eclipse, Sam's Choice Fiesta. They've seen the Koreans with really compelling styling and they can't compete, so they're going to fill the old Korean 'cheap knock-off' role before…