Neutral: Wall street sees the automakers in a bad light right now not only because of the potential for disruption (which I think is badly overblown), but also because of a lack of growth potential. It has been projected that auto sales will peak this year then start to decline. This means profits will likely shrink…

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The Fusion sport was announced last week. It is coming as a 2017 model year.

The early reviews say it sounds good. I’m excited.

Wishing I had seen this question posted.

I’ve done a little track driving and some “advanced” driver training and they always say not to lift off and hit the brakes in that situation because you unload the rear tires and the momentum carries it all the way around. That’s a crazy hard instinct to fight but they’re right. You’re lucky it didn’t spin all the…

Lighter, nimbler, grippier, more practical, better fuel mileage, AWD for the winter.

Golf R is a dual-clutch.

Focus RS is already the price of an Accord with some options.

Neutral: Tech companies won’t kill car companies because they don’t want to. It doesn’t make business sense for a company like google to invest billions in physical infrastructure to get into a low-margin, highly cyclical industry that they have no expertise in.

They hadn’t shown off the supercrew for the new one yet.

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True, but it will also be a very long time before they go to 100% electric. CAFE standards go up about 50% in the next 10 years which won’t require a huge mix of electric vehicles.

The gigafactory will make batteries for 500k cars per year, that’s more than 4x the total number of electric vehicles sold in the US last year. There are also other companies making batteries and there will likely be more gigafactories in the future, production should be fine.

There actually is haha. It depends on how recent the divorce was though. Doug would not be okay in his Aston but a Mercury would be fine.

It basically only happens at UAW sites. None of the engineering/corporate areas have that kind of restriction as far as I know.

So you’ll all be arriving at Kart 2 Kart exhausted after a long day of driving? I’m starting to like my chances, see you guys there.

Did Musk have a history of designing any physical products before founding Tesla and Spacex? Did Tesla have any history of designing anything besides copies before they did the Model S?

China is dramatically loosening their monetary policy and letting the yuan approach where it should be based on the open market, in another year or two they may not manipulate the value at all. But up to this point your argument is fair.

If the share of gasoline cars in the market place gets that low that it is “a drop in the bucket” mainstream manufacturers won’t produce them anyway. Maybe some niche supercar companies would still want to make them, but I imagine there would be room for exemptions like that in any law banning ICE cars.