“I’m expecting Ford to make the EV F-150 as dull as possible and it will be a bust.”

Dealers also solve HUGE financial challenges for the manufacturers... making the dealer-owners buy the real estate, build the dealer facility, equip the shops, deal with P&Z, handle financing....stock parts, hire and fire techs. The list of “stuff GM doesn’t have to worry about” is pretty long.

I’m always stunned by those who think direct sales would be any better than the status quo.

Tom,

Shilling you liberal hack, do you read your own article?

A car shouldn’t define you, thats silly and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t quite get this whole “jalop” thing. Drive the thing that you need or want and nuts to what anyone else says. really like Pontiac W bodies? Great. need a dead reliable commuter? A regular car like a camry is totally fine. Find that a…

See, in a real car company quality would have been involved from the design stage.

He/she probably would have, but Elon promised delivery, so this is what you get.

$48,000/case.

Lol, I was told large outdoor gatherings were not an issue.

While we all anticipated that Sturgis was going to be a COVID shit show, the figure of $46,000 average cost for a single COVID case doesn’t seem very credible.

Couldn’t this also be an indictment on the stupid cost of medicine in the US?  I mean the people that went to Sturgis deserve every bit of illness and vitriol they have coming, but $46,000 per case?  The whole thing is stupid, from beginning to end.

Neutral:

Get a Fiat 500 Abarth

Cool, but what advantages does this Wrangler have over, say, a train? Which I could also afford.

I don’t want a locker on a snow covered highway; I do want an LSD.

The N Line has a bigger engine, it’s not just an appearance package. 

Huh. I wonder what serious faced Corey Booker thinks about it.

Thar it is.

Well, maybe you should complain to your governor if they haven’t mandated masks yet. Most governors have. The dumb shit orangutan can’t legally mandate shit.