I was a low drag (0.19) electric before it was cool.

“Good on you, Mercedes. Parts should trickle down, not up.”

Because an article about a GM car needs to have a certain shitty snarky tone here or you just wont get any cred. If this was a Tesla they would be genuflecting if they drove it around the block and only 2 of the wheels fell off.....

After having a reputation for years of making their cars unnecessarily heavy (e.g. using heavier-gauge sheet metal to give a more “quality” feel), the base Cruze now actually weighs less than the base Mazda 3! (2835 vs 2869 lbs.)

A fully equipped Honda Civic Touring with sunroof, Navigation, and advanced safety features, will maintain its 42 MPG highway rating

Actually, there are like 20 makes that have better initial build quality.

Aside from the safety issues of the doors they are just super gimmicky. Lincoln throws gull wings on a concept they get trashed. Tesla puts some on a production car and they have quality issues and they still are hailed as the best thing ever.

““I am totally willing to overlook the issues if Tesla fixes it.” She went on to say that that if she had similar issues with her Cadillac Escalade, she “would be furious.””

Of course the owners (and the fanboys on this site) brush these things off like nothing. But if this were any other automaker, the Internet wild be alit with complaints. Shows you how blindly these people follow Tesla. While the other problems aren't that serious, the windshield and AutoPilot are scary. And the doors…

Or on a really bad day: 2nd gear, 3rd Gear: Corvette manual transmission.

Pffft, Jalps know it’s a bad 2nd gear synchro!

Hey Patrick, if you’re ever hard-pressed to find enough stories, you should just do this:

The math is right there. They’re targeted to hit 200,000 cars in 4Q 2017.

“that is economics also[.]” happy friday, y’all.

Tesla has cash-flow problems that GM doesn’t.

It doesn’t matter what you “think”. It’s economics. It’s been studied and documented. It’s the entire reason why the credits even exist in the first place.

1.5/50 = 3%, and most of the bailout was paid back in stock sales. The worst case pegged lost “tax-payer” dollars in the amount of ~$11 billion. Since then, GM has announced plans of $5 billion investments in US plants, $1 billion at the WTC (including 2,600+ jobs), $1 billion in Flint, $1.4 billion in Arlington,…

I’ve got an 84 Cutlass Supreme. Its a fantastic ride, especially with an LS1 slid in its framerails.

I miss my 1988 Cutlass Supreme with T-Tops, last of the G Bodies

Well done to Mike Simcoe. He was leader of many designs for Holden in Australia, before moving to the US (most famously the VT Commodore, which kicked off a long-term sales boom for Holden). Onya, mate.