No, gas won’t get expensive as hell in America, thanks to something called an oil glut. OPEC may have cut production to raise the per barrel price, but that will only spur more drilling in the US (a relatively expensive place to start drilling in) and technology and over-supply will just shoot the price back down…

This is why I get mad when morons try to blame international trade for the crisis that forced GM and Chrysler to take bailout money.

This might actually fly in Asian markets, especially mainland China, where many well-off buyers (as in rich enough to afford a Continental or midrange BMW but not a Rolls) prefer to be chauffeured. I could see Chinese buyers wanting something different from a long-wheelbase A6/5-series and jumping on this instead.

Just stick with the brand names. Colgate toothpaste is the same whether it’s from CVS or Walmart, for example.

Walmarts absolutely do exist in middle class and even wealthy areas and you can see new luxury cars in their parking lots.

This is objectively false. Most of Walmart’s stock is brand name stuff.

High-earning plug-in hybrid owner here - I go to Walmart, not super regularly (I’d never buy groceries there) but if I need stationery, a key duplication, toiletries, etc I go to Walmart because it’s closer to my house than most other stores. I prefer Amazon for the most part but sometimes I can’t wait the 2 days for…

95 RON is actually equivalent to 91 in the US

It’s amusing how so many people don’t realize that putting 87 into a car that “requires” 91 is perfectly fine (as long as you don’t make a habit out of it). Automakers know that sometimes you can’t access 91 on a cross-country rural drive, and that sometimes you slip up and press the wrong button.

Trust me, allowing naturalized citizens to run would not actually change anything.

Trust me, allowing naturalized citizens to run would not actually change anything.

Parents owned a Lexus LS430 for 15 years, and while it was rock-solid reliable and never left us stranded, its electronic were not immune to failure. To its credit though, absolutely nothing broke until about 3 years after the warranty expired.

I was in Shanghai a few months ago and the 25% import tax doesn’t seem to be hurting sales of flagship German cars (A8, 7-series, S-class) and even Lexus. US-made German SUVs are also quite popular.

I stand corrected. Didn’t notice that the SLR was LHD. The i8, however, was indeed made in RHD.

“fled” is the wrong word, haha. The handover to China was expected and planned decades in advance. It was a formal and friendly withdrawal.

Hong Kong is a tiny dot on the map with extremely limited land. It drives on the opposite side of the road from mainland China, so cars registered in Hong Kong are for the most part confined to Hong Kong’s boundaries.

They’re right-hand-drive. Can’t bring them to the US.

Unions are responsible for giving us many of the workers’ rights we enjoy today.

In this globalized world, it’s tricky to determine the actual origin of individual components.

For cars, that is already true. Most cars imported from Mexico are low-end low-margin vehicles. Trucks, SUVs, and luxury cars are predominantly made in the USA or in other first world nations like Canada, Germany, and Japan, all of which compete on quality rather than labor cost. Labor and energy costs are actually…