It’s funny that car companies can actually kill their customers through negligence and not face any serious consequences but if you try to get around an emissions regulation it’s going to lead to probable criminal prosecution. This is the world we live in.
I’m not defending VW/Audi here, but how many people died as a direct result of their alleged duplicity? Yes, there should be a price to pay, but to think that the penalty would potentially dwarf GM’s fine/penalty shows how our priorities are upside down.
no. that unctuous prick Dan Akerson knew this was coming, and dumped this shit into her lap. All the while he gets to go on with his private equity bullshit.
I’m having a hard time imagining what the automotive landscape is going to look like in 20 years, when you have company representatives making statements like “smartphones on wheels.”
You my friend have never owned a 1988 Mercury Topaz. That car had no soul...or motor mounts. You have not lived until you have heard the sound of an engine component hitting the firewall when going WOT from a stop.
I honestly wondered about that and kind of still do. I’ll e-mail my finance guy.
Speaking as a Ferrari owner; Ferrari owners who complain about how much their car costs to service and don’t drive them because they are worried about how adding mileage will effect the resale. A Ferrari is a complex high performance car it needs servicing even if it is just sitting in the garage note being used.
Yeah, it’s cool how the NHTSA is making up for their screw ups with GM by taking it out on FCA.
The rarest Honda is the one Jane Fonda drove with the engine in the rear. No wait I think that's wrong.
That’s what killed the old Ranger. By the time they updated it with too many airbags and electronic aids, and equipped with things people want, it was within a RCH of the price of an F-150.
1st Gear:
Headlights not narrow enough, door skirts not high enough, not enough plastic body panels, not looking angry enough. I’ll wait till next year. By then the headlights should just be a single strip of LED’s, the windows will be narrow slit of glass, the whole body will be plastic filled with Styrofoam, and it will look…
“We knew autonomous cars were coming - what we didn’t know was that Chevy was going to force reliance on safety aids by slowly closing off the outside world..”
I think you’re exactly right Tom. I also think that resting on their laurels will eventually come back to bite Toyota in the ass. That’s exactly what got GM in trouble, they sat back and continued to make tons of money selling boatloads of vehicles that were not the best in class, to people who were just used to…
When I’m working, yes I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I’ll give up every single paycheck just for you
When I come home (when I come home) well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I hoon on’ (before I…
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Or even a pre “era of stagnation” Soviet car.
Me neither. I pretty much scroll past all super car content. In fact, I was just thinking yesterday that there are too many supercars at my local cars and coffee, and not enough charismatic old beaters.
The cynical take is that Ford knew the IIHS was going to test the SuperCrew, so it got structurally reinforced.