Agree with you. Exterior styling on many of their cars is as good as any other. ATS-V, CT6, mustang, these buicks - all great looking cars. Nobody notices, but they also perform, sometimes best in class.

I would also wager that anything under 6.5 or so “feels” fast enough to most buyers, such that for someone who’s never driven a Corvette or whatever that’s plenty of the “Push you back into your seat” sensation and feels fast.

Its pretty amazing what can be done with small displacement 4 cylinders these days. As late as the late 80s 6.0L V8s made less HP.

“Performance does not matter.” This is extremely silly. 0-60 in six seconds is fast as fuck, especially for a passenger truck. If you go out on a public road with passengers and you go from zero to sixty in six seconds, all your passengers are going to be thinking, “Holy cow, it’s like we’re driving in the Indy 500!”…

The tax was last raised in 1993 and is not indexed to inflation. Total inflation from 1993 until 2015 was 64.6 percent.

The same way mortgage brokers “managed the risk” of iffy mortgages in the mid-oughts ... they dump the notes on the secodary market and write more questionable new ones ... then the secondary market lump them into unqualified market baskets and resells them as derivatives ... then the whole shebang explodes and the…

This is entirely too rational and astute to be something the majority of the voting population would pursue

So how can lenders accept the risk of a loan over the value of the car being purchased? Are they just betting the buyer won’t default? Even if they repo the new car, they wouldn’t be recovering the underwater old car portion of the loan unless they repo other things on top. Is that how this works?

Is this the face of a cheater?

The Queen’s English would disagree and say that “and” is appropriate. ;)

It’s called mount stupid.

OMG people like this are a danger to manifold.

Maybe they’re looking for something more grounded to the ground?

This is wrong and correct.

I’m always sort of conflicted about the guy. On the one hand, he managed to keep Chrysler afloat on the (already waning) strength of Fiat at the time - and to then keep Fiat afloat on the American market’s rebound (Jeeps, Ram trucks, RWD large cars), all while doing an impressive bit of financial juggling to keep…

Ooh. Using “catholic” in the non-religious sense. Well done.

Except that Toyota and Honda can succeed with boring due to their (perceived) reliability.

“But we want you to use emojis instead of words!” /smashes TV.

It’s amazing how quickly we shift from “CAN’T BUILD EM FAST ENOUGH” to “WE ARE ALL DOOMED” when it comes to auto sales.

GM deserve to be punished for their awful “real people, not actors” campaign.