While you may well be correct, from what I understand of the Japanese Domestic market, this just won’t really work. Because unlike EU taxation, the Japanese tax situation basically is higher, and the pickup is not really a desirable vehicle there. Yes, as in Europe, there will be some folks who want one, can afford…

Not a damned thing wrong in what you said.

This so much.

I honestly believe that Apple has zero intention on ever building a car. Never really has, never really considered it a real possibility. They wanted the hype, the press, the mentions in the interwebs, because that keeps Apple top of mind. There is no bad publicity so long as they spell your name correctly.

Well, thanks to our ass-kissing weasel of a governor, Florida is open, meaning open to traffic, traffic from out of state people. Hooray, we get to host the people most likely to spread the virus spend money in our economy, because we are a state of greedy, greedy pro-business people. And now I-4 near Disney and…

Not now, used to. The last one I had was a 1997 Ranger, regular cab, 5 speed, loved it. And am thinking that if I can find a good old one, I may just get it to have one around. If one of the 70s ones were available, even better, but the rarity of those makes that dream pretty unreasonable. Hell, I would even take a…

Yeah, totally reminds me of the old Altered dragsters that used a Fiat Topolino or an old Austin body on a stretched frame. Tiny car body, but nothing else of the donor car anywhere on it.

Uh, sorry Rusty, but Ridgeline is not a small pickup. Neither is this. And the S-10 was getting a bit big, really. A person wanting a really small pickup usually is pining for something on the order of the Ford Courier, the Chevy LUV, the Datsun pickup, or the Toyota HiLux. Truly small, but useful, pickups. Two door,…

I agree, at least as it concerns the North American market.

4th Gear: The U.S. Needs To Get To Work On Cutting Emissions

Tampa has several.

Exactly, they carved out the idea that the new design would be built with 10% EV. That should probably be the percentage of ICE instead. Make 90% EV, as that serves 90% of the needs. Why they made it backwards is just another case of your government in action....

I guess bumping up the gas tax, cutting out the “light truck” loophole in our emissions regulations, and putting in bus and train lines across the country doesn’t sound as sexy as building as many battery plants as China.

You are correct, hydrogen will not lower global energy consumption.

Centrist appeal to the center, which is the largest pool of voters. Not saying that centrist are good, just more in number.

The problem with the far left is the same one as the far right. At some point, you are never going to be “pure” enough in belief to be a member in good standing.

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I also was thinking that Stellantis could have focused on selling PSA product out of the Fiat studios, sort of marketing it as a one stop European but not German store. They could have sold actual Peugeots and Citroens and DS models, and probably at a slightly higher price point. But the likely outcome is that the PSA…

That’s so sad. But more common than not.

The issue is not Tesla getting into the grid, it is how that will affect who the grid serves - the public at large or the companies that own and operate it?