I get your argument, but the precedent is that people can modify their car for their own use, or make them available in limited number as a product for sale, but there is no safety requirements other than what the state where the car is registered requires. And people rarely, if ever, pay to modify a car to be more…

Uh, wrong. The Judge’s job is to try actual cases, and to dismiss ones that have no merit. This one, apparently, has no merit. No legal standing. It is GM saying that FCA got a better deal from the UAW and then told them to screw GM in their negotiations. That, save for a document actually stating that was the intent…

The easiest and fastest way to bring down the price of accessories or options is to not make them options to begin with.

Update: the Appeals court stayed the order.

Ariana Grande celebrated her 27th birthday by throwing herself a Midsommar-themed party (the pretty flower crowns part not the human sacrifice part).

The real push happened via Chrysler creating a “Sales Bank” to keep the factories running at full capacity when sales went down in the 1960s. They had so much built that they required dealers to order this stock and created the switch from dealers holding small inventories and ordering as needed to having lots of…

Quite the opposite, really. Frivolous lawsuits should be routinely shot down by the courts, early in the process, and often. We are the most litigious society on Earth, and it is stupid to have courts decide what should be a decision made by the individuals (or individual corporations) involved. Only those disputes…

Any of the pictures you showed would add several thousand to the cost of a car, even the ‘came from the factory like this’ models.

I love Aston Martin. Really. But it has 2 choices. Die. Or just make $1 million or higher priced supercars for the superrich, and play F1 like you want. And really, I would prefer it die than take on the second option.

Exactly what I was saying. Truck inventory is the one in question, with reduced inventory level for those. But not everything else. So why not focus on what is selling and just keep the other lines idle until it makes financial sense to start building the other models.

I have actually used the QR code menus, and as a Bitter Old Dude, I approve.

It’s not the chicken tax. It’s Murricans. Murricans only want big ole US of A type pickemup trucks. Toyota trucks in the USA are not at all like the ones sold outside the USA, yet the HiLux seems to be the standard bearer outside of the USA and the Tacoma outsells the Tundra. Same with Nissan, selling the Navara…

I just don’t get the whole “keep building more and more cars” idea right now. It does not really fit a lot of business models, and it really is a dangerous bet that the OEMs are making -risking worker’s safety to meet a predicted demand that well may not exist. Sure, the pickups are selling, and people who leased are…

This is a good start, and I hope that the Democratic National Party sees the light and moves to the left, where people seem to want to be. Oddly enough, that left is really more in the center, as we moved so far to the right that any movement left has a long way to go to reach the real “far left”.

Probably only a couple of Americans are following it, but Wirecard was effectively shut down and imploded like Enron after it was discovered that it was faking accounts worth Billions (in euros). When finally audited, EY would not sign off, as it could not verify anything. The CEO claimed that deposits were going to…

Short of throwing out the lawsuit, which should have been an option, the judge is making both sides deal with their bullshit.

Not picking on you, but your statement really makes me laugh.

Unless your job entails making something, taking care of someone in front of you, or otherwise physically interacting with someone or some item, WFH is really a better use of everyone’s time, money, and effort. Teamwork, that great corporate buzzword that really means nothing for most tasks, is highly overrated,…

Rear fog lamp. It’s a european thing....

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