Here’e the thing. Its obviously a California car. I know because I have one too, a 1955 Mercury and unlike cars from the rest of the country this one will have very little if any rust. It might look rough. But if this were in the Midwest? You’d be looking at 100's of hours cutting, grinding and repairing rust holes…

It annoys me that it is ALWAYS the WORST types of people who paint the Murican’ flag on everything. 99.9999% of the time its some angry Trump- Supportin’ Bigot. Would be nice if some day we take back the flag.

It looks stupid. Like a bar of soap. And $600k? LOL! Yeah right.

The article is sort of misleading. That said, I still don’t understand why Teslas sell as well as they do. The physical designs of their cars is ancient. And all they’ve done so far is give them barely noticeable front clip changes. They are also just plain looking. They look like cars you’d download from a stock…

Late model Crown Vics all day long. Very reliable. But if I wanted a big ass American car I’d get 90's Buick Lesabre with the 3800 V6. Sure- its not a V8 but so what? Those cars run forever.

Fucking awful, awful man. Too bad the fall wasn’t more serious.

Especially being that its a Chinese company.

Might work this time. The last few times they tried the cars were simply not up to European tastes. Interiors are very important to them and the 90's era and 00's era cars simply did not have that level of detail. Now they do.

 But secondly, seems to me that GM, Ford and Chrysler could crank up exports of their full…

So long as the US keeps tariffs on Chinese cars they probably won’t make inroads here unless they decide to setup factories here, which could be a real thing. I grew up in Tennessee and GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, Denso, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Kia, Hyundai all now have giant factories in southern states. Cheap labor, the…

I agree 1000% with what you said. But China got to where it is today because a whole bunch of shortsighted executives saw a fast way to make a quick buck back in the 80's and 90's when anything made in China was a total joke. GM, Ford, Boeing, Apple, VW, BMW, etc, ALL went in and happily agreed to the CCP’s demands of…

What China is doing now is what Japan did in the 50's: Dumping: Selling products overseas at lower prices than it costs to make them while selling them at a premium domestically. This is what put a lot of US domestic Electronics manufactures out of business. 

Enjoy driving your piece of shit.

I am not really a good representative of the average car owner. As in I am still daily-driving my 1996 Toyota Tacoma in the smaller size with basic no-nothing, crank windows, bench seats, manual transmission. Its got over 300,000 miles so far. I could easily go out and buy whatever car I wanted. But I’ve had this…

I guess I’m just biased because my gold standard is Toyota and their luxury brand, Lexus where some of their cars have racked up a million miles without a hiccup. I’ve known way too many people who owned BMWs, Mercedes, Audi, and other European brands that had serious and often expensive issues with them. Often…

Well... if this is true then at very best they have mediocre to slightly poor reliability since both BMW and Mercedes aren’t renown for being reliable, especially over the long term. The impression I get is that these are sort of fragile cars. 

Most recent I found was from 2022. This is a brand that has a long history of making unreliable cars. So I’m not surprised.

I just looked them up. They still have pretty awful reliability problems that places them right down with the likes of Land Rover. So... not sure what changed between when they came out versus now.

My wife’s dad insisted on buying diesel Rabbits and Jettas. First of all her family are all very tall. Her dad would hit his head on the ceiling if they ran over a pot hole. Second, she assumed mufflers falling off was a normal thing because the cars dropped them every few winters. 

This was a car my dad bought from some random guy. A 1988 Nissan Sentra. Very basic car with no power steering, manual transmission, etc etc. He did this because he got a job that was 50 miles away and his then truck, a F250 got like 9MPG. So this was going to be the commuter car. I remember it had a sort of shiny red…

I’ve never owned a German car. My MIL owned a VW Jetta diesel though and that car fell apart. But we own a Subaru Crosstrek and the interior seems fine with me. We actually use ours for going off-road camping and the interior was designed to be easily cleaned from mud, dirt and hauling shit. So its obviously not going…