I don’t know why I even take the time to think about things that would never happen, but I’d take the lump sum.

Gifts are taxed

I’ve heard the Mazda 3 is really lacking compared to the Focus. Especially in interior.

First gear: the detroit news link is broke

Activity has really slowed in my area. I expect it will pick back up a little bit after the winter as they have a lot of the pipeline infrastructure in place now and will probably want to use it at some point.

I used to spend just about $8k per year between my wife and myself but that was with a 4 hour round trip commute to work (~130 miles) for me. The most that doubling my fuel economy would have saved me could be like $3000k a year max with that atrocious commute. I think the increased fuel economy is a good thing but I…

Why does this look so much better than an SS?

The only thing worse than a $60k Challenger is a $60k Camaro.

“Then at one point he basically said he has never experienced a car outside of GM and all luxury cars are the same, just with styling differences.”

Front plates for sure

I thought that was part of their strategy since China liked the Buick more than the pointy edge caddys. They’ve gotten softer since.

totally ripped off the miata

I think closer to 5 but at some point they came out with a statement saying if they use a material they are going to actually use that material.

It’s seems like it’s common in the segment. I’m a big Tesla fan but I never liked the way they advertise their pricing either.

I’m betting the production model barely resembles this.

If gas prices rebound too much it makes fracking more profitable and we will have increased supply again from fracking. One of the major reason the Saudi’s flooded the market was to slow down US fracking. edit: I’m not arguing that they should relax CAFE though.

I’m pretty sure they just brand the same Chinese boards that everyone else sells but importing an infringing product is still a violation.

Intel illegally forced manufacturers to not use AMD. AMD is still hurting from that to this day. link

People can’t comprehend that but journalist don’t help by always saying they “lose X per vehicle”. Tesla isn’t losing money on each vehicle they are simply investing more money than they bring in from the vehicle sales. Which has been part of their strategy for awhile.

The tax credits run out at a certain number of vehicles and if I’m not mistaken that should happen before the model 3 gets released.