Tom, from your story in 2014 you mentioned how Truecar used to disclose dealer cost, which was then around 10% off sticker. Should we generally assume that is the price spread and bargain accordingly?

Tell that to U.S. chipmakers back in the 80s who complained about massive chip dumping by Japan. They got relief from Reagan and thrived.

The problem is that this was a hack job by a couple of British chavs who were in way over their heavily gelled heads. Reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson, who thinks because he’s oh so clever in dispensing insults that he’s qualified to drop an engine and discuss fuel trim. Which he’s not.

Ah, playing the Fox News card. That’s original.

If we have lots of lawyers and are litigious, it must mean we got our entire legal system from a certain other country. I wonder which country that is. Any guesses?

Sure they do NYCBrit. Britain is more litigious than America ever will be. For gawd’s sake one of your moronic families sued Colgate because their child swallowed toothpaste. The good news is that a Brit was actually *using* toothpaste.

It seems Subaru is getting most of their “new ideas” from Nasioc and the tuner community. The painted Brembos for instance. My hunch is they didn’t add power under the hood because they figured owners would mod their cars anyway, which we do. Now what would be nice are some fender flares to cover up those wheel well…

Hardly “authoritarian” to take an active role in keeping companies at home. The Germans would do the same with Mercedes or the French with Renault. They see these companies as national brands and worth protecting. But apparently Trump is supposed to let Ford go wherever without a peep. And screw the workers too.

Hardly “authoritarian” to take an active role in keeping companies at home. The Germans would do the same with Mercedes or the French with Renault. They see these companies as national brands and worth protecting. But apparently Trump is supposed to let Ford go wherever without a peep. And screw the workers too.

I find this amusing, all of these people attacking Trump for getting a Tweet partially wrong but getting the big picture right. NAFTA is garbage, even Bernie Sanders agrees with Trump on this. Adding to the irony is people on the left stampeding to defend the behavior of U.S. corporations. “Dude, you can’t tamper with…

Yes it does seem hard to believe that Trump had nothing to do with it. I fully expect the haters to tie themselves in knots trying to prove he didn’t, that it was just the market doing what it does. In any case this is good news. Ford never gave American consumers a price break on cars made in Mexico. The Fiesta, made…