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$750k could get me a cabinet post in the Trump administration.

Because it’s not American. There are still people in this country that refuse to buy American cars because of the crap they produced in the 80's and 90's.

“They either need to replace drivers with automation, or monopolize the market significantly enough to set profitable rates.”

The second and third paragraphs of the article sum up the crux of the argument and rely on verifiable fact. The article is too long and goes too wide, sure, but those two paragraphs are key.

Perhaps you think there’s nothing wrong with the contractor structure, and how nice for you if that’s the case. But the finance…

Toyotas is consistently on top for reliability. Nissan isn’t.

If your are drunk, and in your car, and it is running with your key in the ignition, you are driving drunk no matter which seat you are in.

watch the damn video

You don’t see track times for Tesla because they’re not sports cars. People who buy Teslas, aren’t buying them to go fast. Its just a feature, if you will. There’s no need for an electric sedan to be able to run multiple, consecutive hot laps at Nurburgring.

Yes!!!! A good buddy of mine spent a month on and off the phone with me asking for advice on a good car to purchase. Mazda had some fantastic deals with 0% interest that was in his budget and made more sense then buying used. He loved the idea. He goes out car shopping and buys the first car he drove at the first used…

When friends and family ask me for advice for what car they should buy. I give them several really good, interesting options. Then, they ignore those choices and end up buying a Camry.

nooooo. Mr Bean = super annoyance. Only in small doses is he entertaining e.g. Love Actually. An entire movie of him is completely cringeworthy, acceptable only to small children and Brits.

The Bolt testing timeline comparison is a false equivalence that’s a favorite of SA shorts but holds no water. Bolt is GMs first fully electric production car on a brand new architecture. Model 3 will leverage extremely well-developed platform/architecture that is currently in mass production. Apples and watermelons.

There isn’t a single thing Nissan produces these days that I am even remotely interested in. All of their models look stale or uninspired. So its time for a new CEO for sure and stepping down was probably a wise move.

The only reason non-union employers have similar wages and benefits to union employers is because they have to in order to draw the labor. That’s one of the side perks of unions: They keep other employers honest, too.

So how is Cadillac’s data plan required nav system is going to help you in the mountains?

Yeah, except for the part where it’s a (severely) depreciating asset, and also you’ll still be making payments long after your warranty has expired. That’s a terrible idea, IMO. I get the argument from a strictly numbers standpoint, but at some point when loan terms stretch out long enough you have to say “enough is…

It doesn’t matter if there’s no added cost by the time it’s paid off or not if the amount you’ve got left the pay is more than the current market value. The car’s worth sixteen stacks new and plummets in value to be around five to seven within three years. This is a low cost vehicle, and for someone of meager means…

Apple Carplay and android Auto do exactly that. Almost every GM car has it now.

In-car software anecdote (Buick Intellilink): My GF IM’d me a picture along with a bit of text, and the car read the whole image to me, in encoded form (basically a stream of random letters of the alphabet). After 15 solid minutes of this, I had to turn the car completely off at a stoplight (and restart it) to get the…