This is the correct move regardless of what game you are playing.

Bingo. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that people buy these purpose-built off-roaders as boutique items, but they should understand they are signing up for something that rides like shit, doesn’t like going 70+, and is prone to change its mind about being upright. I remember when most SUV’s had the stickers on the…

It boggles the mind that they put it on a “new” platform just so it could still be impossible to see out of, even relative to its direct competitors.

The engine is saddled with a few known problems but nothing insurmountable and the treatments for them are pretty straightforward.

What’s more annoying to me is how many people misquote it down to “Anyone who would sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither.”

Unfortunately, Ben Franklin did in fact say “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” and I have seen a lot of dimwits sing it for a few weeks now. 

Bingo! This is really just the most pointed example of how Wrangler’s aren’t normal cars (or even SUV’s.), they are ready-made off-roaders. It isn’t bad that people buy them as the fun status symbols that they are, but they need to be aware they are signing up for something that rides rough, doesn’t like going 70+,…

Per the article, there is only 20 people per shift, but I see your point. Again, it requires the caveat, but *****If we can do it safely***** we need to keep as many people working and off unemployment as possible.

Humans: We are finally making a mid-engined Corvette!

It is pretty goddamn hilarious that after 50 years of “maybe we’ll get a mid-engine Corvette!’ there is literally a plague trying to hold it back. Only after a UAW strike, too.

IDK, for me its just a tone thing. It’s not that hard to write something without being miserable. If a topic really is that negative, then people will realize it without any help. 

1st. Gear: Good. This generation of trucks is so awful looking, across all brands. The previous gen ones were much better looking.

Neutral, right before the lockdowns started, I moved into an apartment that has a used lot down the street that exclusively sells old police cruisers. Was going to get one as a winter beater/commuter that I am now simply putting off until I’m not working from home anymore. I’m interested to see how the market changes…

This seems like a rare morning shift consisting of just some good stories and write ups instead of multiple heavy handed “fuck this aspect of the auto industry/the world today” with the writer playing some sort of angle, and its extremely refreshing. As a regular, I sincerely appreciate it, even though it might not…

Exactly, but its still huge even if you close it down to just the production side of the business. People don’t realize that the majority of jobs shipped overseas aren’t in final assembly, its all the pieces and parts. If you go to a place like Lansing MI (lived there for four years), the GM plant is still there, but…

Oops, i meant the Boxtster, but that’s a 2 seater too I guess. Damn these things for all looking the same!

Yeah, fair point. In theory the LLC approach is supposed to be the workaround for this. But to be fair, this isn’t so much a capitalism issue as much as it is an issue with running a massive globalized economy off limited resource and a currencies with no literal value.

Not only that, but final assembly is a relatively small fraction of the total employment and revenue created by the auto industry. There is so much freaking business dependent on production of cars.

That 911 is an ok choice, but you could probably a get a much better example of a Cayman for that money.

Neutral: Transition the company to an employee owned structure instead of a publicly traded corporation. In 2009, the feds proved they were willing to bail out the big three* if everything goes to shit, pretty much negating the only positive aspect of being publicly traded that actually effects the product/service the…