The Bolt’s biggest obstacle to selling better is that is A) A Chevrolet, and B) Ugly and weird looking. I still don’t understand why Chevy thought their first true EV should be a frumpy looking hatchback, a segment that they have basically always failed in. The most recent Cruze Hatch was a fairly decent vehicle that…

Exactly. And frankly pure BEV’s still aren’t practical for a lot of people in North America right now. Between the extra cost and the lack of charging infrastructure where I live, it’d be really hard to justify one as an only car. A plug in hybrid on the other hand would be totally fine and would still allow for 80%+…

Even being from Canada, these last four years (and especially the last year of COVID) have made me lose respect for a lot of friends/family/colleagues etc. It’s honestly discouraging. A lot of people I used to admire or at least like have outed themselves as ruthless morons and selfish assholes over the last few years…

Most banks for car loans typically have a set % above MSRP that they will finance, usually to account for negative equity from trades or dealer add ons in the finance office. The TRX’s, I would imagine, probably fall within that range.

This is such corporate spin nonsense. Infiniti’s entire lineup, save the Q50/60, are rebadged Nissan’s and have been for YEARS. Current QX60? A barely warmed over Pathfinder. Current QX80? A barely warmed over Armada/Patrol. And even the new QX50 shares its platform and entire powertrain with the Altima, and the…

I’m not going to hold my breath on Musk actually delivering on this. The $35000 Model 3 was essentially a lie, and I’m fairly certain this will be too. 

There usually are, but depending on where you live they might be either very weak or the dealers just find a way around them. The place I used to work made a big deal of advertising that they had “NO HIDDEN FEES” even though having hidden fees was illegal, and yet they still charged hidden fees, they just called them…

Portugal sounds like a vastly superior choice here

Rebadging some Peugoets/Citroens/DS’s seems like the only real path forward honestly. They could rebadge a few Jeeps as well, though I question whether that would actually work. This is the problem with these mega mergers, they end up with too many brands that they don’t know what to do with and it all becomes a bit…

It’s true. I went and got a degree just so I could get away from working in them. It feels like they’re getting worse with time rather than getting better. 

I really don’t get why dealers (and manufactures) still use the misleading lease payment thing. When I sold cars, almost every single time someone came in looking for the advertised $499/month payment and were presented with the real numbers being $100-200 more, they got mad and left. We almost never converted those…

Having worked at VW for a time, it’s honestly probably all markup as discouraging as that may be

For me I think it has a lot to do with the design aspect. There is a lot of crossover between automotive design and watch design and the two realms seem to influence one another quite often.

Reason #4,973,522 that we need to tax the rich more. Inequality was already at record levels before COVID and is going to be absolutely fucked coming out of it. 

True, but at least that is supposedly being redesigned in the next couple years if I’m not mistaken

It looks absolutely enormous

Exactly why Nissan is such a failure of late. It’s “all-new” truck appears to fundamentally be a lightly warmed over version of an already 7-year old design. I look forward to it being in production until 2047 (assuming Nissan doesn’t collapse before then).

Exactly why the Democrats need to jettison all the gilded dinosaurs that make up the party leadership. It totally undercuts the grassroots of the party when you have leadership go and do stupid and selfish stuff like this

Bill Morneau fucking sucked. I don’t understand why Trudeau held onto him for so long

I couldn’t agree more. I’ve long believed that if you are an elected official (or high ranking government official) you should not be able to buy, sell, or hold individual stocks for the entire time you are in that position, nor should you be able to actively own or run a business of any appreciable size. If you want…