“Packard resisted getting swallowed up by the bigger brands, but it couldn’t survive when the Big Three began a price cutting war in the ’50s. Packard bowed out of history for good in 1958.”

I’m amazed there are still so many shops doing chrome plating in CA since, as you said, we’ve known how toxic it is for a long time.

Any manufacturer with half a brain has been phasing hexavalent chrome out of their products for years already because they did know this was coming. Oh, and because it’s already been phased out in a lot of the world. The US is late to the party on this one, which isn’t too surprising (whatever, we do this sort of…

It’s been said a million times: chrome don’t get you home.

Not surprising. I’m curious what these companies thought was going to happen. It’s been well known that the chroming process is super hazardous for over a century. There’s already zoning laws in certain areas that don’t allow these processes to take place.

IMHO-US consumers do very little preventative maintenance beyond changing the oil. 

During my stint in the Navy I was a technician for an aircraft called affectionately “The Hoover” (a S3 Viking) it had two very large Pratt and Whitney engines attached to it that had the same safe distance.

Sounds like a darwin award winner here. Unless he was sucked in from further than 15 feet away, then that’s a safety procedure failure...

This is a great project, and a necessary step toward ending the use of fossil fuels globally.

Wind powered ships. The future is here...

Smoke salmon, not tires

I agree with this. The car brings me in the door, the service center is what pushes me to the next manufacturer. 

Same. I’ve done: Volvo > VW > Hyundai > Toyota > Volvo > Toyota > Tesla > Mercedes > Rivian (soon)

LEVC have one vehicle as such.

…and why subscriptions for features in your car are going to bleed us all in the future… thanks Tesla and BMW. 

Once your truck has four doors, the real truck ship has already sailed, so whatever else they do to it doesn’t really matter.

Oh they do: the Wagoneer.

“...because other people’s choices are not my own”. Okay, but other people’s choices do affect you. The flip side of this is that you have no responsibility to other people, and those two thoughts are completely destructive of any sense of social cohesion and belonging, and I hate to be dramatic and generalize, but…

Who knew the Canyonero would end up with a cargo bed?

“Don’t worry: Ram is proud of what it has done here”