Sorry, your implied idea that a Mopar of the last 30 years....my incorrect interpretation.

Snark away, but it has been reported that FCA has been planning on moving the next Challenger/Charger/300 models to an older Alfa Giorgio platform to retain RWD sedan architecture. Add to that fact that the CURRENT Challenger/Charger/300 uses a platform that owes its lineage to the old Mercedes platform, with…

I get it, you want exclusive if you pay through the nose.

Think again. Other than beer/wine/whiskey, I can’t think of another product that is REQUIRED to be sold via a separate group. The whole dealership model is outdated and anti-consumer, as the dealerships can still exist, and even work out better pricing on wholesaling the cars from the OEMs, but banning the OEMs from…

The stock market is treating Tesla, fairly or unfairly, as a tech stock. As such, they believe the hype, they believe that disruption is being created in the industry by the presence of Tesla, and that Tesla will continue to gain market share. It’s a plan that has no long term goals, no worries on what the future will…

Exactly. While Sanders is not the perfect candidate, he is certainly a hell of a lot better than any product of the mainline Democratic party that decreed that Clinton would be the nominee in 2016 (yeah, DWS and her cronies) and who keep pushing a “Republican lite” agenda that still defers to the Wall Street crowd.…

This.

Not knocking the Quad 4 in and of itself, but to praise GM for finally making it is damning it the praise.

Hey, the wigs are super ugly, but can we address real cultural appropriation in this globally-integrated world?

But it is “entirely insurance companies rubbing their hands together with glee while they overspend”. A conference is not needed to discuss healthcare investments, any more than practically any conference is needed for any reason. This could have been a webinar, for all the information presented. Instead, it is a way…

Passive/aggressive it right back to her.

“...according to Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, things aren’t really that bad”

That’s the difference between the UAW and American unions and unions everywhere else. While not a golden standard, other countries workers tend to work WITH management for a positive outcome. If the goal was to keep as many people working as possible, under safe and well paid positions, unions would do well to realize…

Neutral: What Are You Most Excited/Concerned About In The Auto Industry?

I would concur with forcing people to ride along with a semi driver to see how badly folks drive around them. If they understood how dangerous it is to both the semi driver and especially to them when they dart in front of one, follow too closely to be seen in mirrors, or worse, pass on the right, it might scare some…

Well, after thinking about “others” trying to park rather than considering how long it took me or my coworkers to back in to park a full sized van, yeah, you may be right. Most people should not be allowed behind the wheel, and one quick and easy way to make that happen is to make any driver’s test to require a few…

You do realize, Sparky, that the extra time (possibly) spent pulling into a parking spot nose first is negated when one has to back out of the parking spot when leaving? Which means that it all averages out in the wash, whether ass in or nose in first? It comes down to a matter of leaving that parking space faster and…

The phone company requires that all vans/trucks be backed in when parking, to allow the driver to see when pulling out of said parking spot. It’s statistically safer, and really easy once you do it a couple of times. And because of this policy, perpendicular drive lots where one could pull through and be in the…

The problem is conflating the stock market’s ideas on Tesla with what the company is actually doing in real life.

Had you read the article, the conference is the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. So yeah, healthcare is costly, the bank is costly, and yet they profit and you pay how much for premiums and co-pays and deductibles? Because this meeting is doing so much to make healthcare affordable by being held in the most…