It sounds just like that infamous meeting between Netflix and Blockbuster, where Netflix was looking to be bought out. When your business paradigm has been successful, its easy to start to dismiss all new possibilities as unnecessary risks and worthless endeavors. That’s why the last one to see a coming paradigm shift …

Mustang SVO found the best way around this dumb rule:

Considering the original Mustang came from a Falcon, and the Fox Body starting as the Fairmont before moving to the Mustang, a Pinto-based Mustang is...fine. They sold a ton of the things, they eventually crammed a V8 into it, it’s just a product of a bad time in general.

This has been mentioned before...Acura execs getting jealous that their individual cars “Legend” and “Integra” had better name recognition than “Acura” as a brand, so they renamed them the “RL” and “RSX” and then slowly killed whatever public goodwill they had. Their fix? To make their lineup more and more bland yet…

If I had a million dollars, I’d buy the green dress first.

Brutalist architecture.

My understanding is that Japanese policy is to use Australian coal that’s gasified as the hydrogen source.

Not exactly. It’s made from natural gas if you are talking commercial quantities. Japan is big into LNG.

If the ditched the hydrogen crap, loaded up the batteries to give this at least 300 miles of range, fast changing capability and then branded it as a Lexus, they would then have a winner 

Norway has a decent hydrogen station network and especially Hyundai’s H car has sold okay. But last year, a station outside of Oslo exploded. Nobody got hurt and it was caused by hoomæn stoopidity, but every other station in the country closed, too. Meanwhile, our prime minister is talking about how hydrogen remains…

Perhaps, but BEV trucks are going to be here sooner than H2 trucks.

What do you do when that one station or the depot supplying it shuts down for several months as happened in California?

Seawater isn't an energy source

Part of the issue with H2 is that for every kWh used to produce H2, one could just use that electricity to charge a BEV, with fewer losses along the way.

Even if that’s the case, there’s only 46 stations in the entire US where one could go to refuel their Mirai. I probably have that many gas stations within a five mile radius of me.

Not exactly. It’s made from natural gas if you are talking commercial quantities. Japan is big into LNG.

The fuel-cell aspect aside, that’s a good looking car. Especially those turbine wheels on the Limited trim.

If the ditched the hydrogen crap, loaded up the batteries to give this at least 300 miles of range, fast changing capability and then branded it as a Lexus, they would then have a winner 

From what I’ve read, H2 stations typically run about $2m each to build, and have some building code restrictions that means they’re mostly placed in industrial areas.

Typically around 5kg. H2 is metered by weight. Apparently 5kg of H2 will run you about $80 and get you about 320 miles of range in the current Mirai.