Honestly, almost any of these are perfectly adequate for the needs of the average person.

DEI is good for business and most big companies know this. Most will scrub anything that looks like DEI from public materials and will be more careful with internal communications, but most DEI work will continue.

1St Gear: official wipe from documentation to PR reports doesn’t mean it’s gone. Many companies are just moving forward internally, with no changes to policy.  They know what’s right.

I hate to break it to you, but if you wear a New York Yankees hat people think you’re a Yankees fan. If you drive a Nazimobile, guess what they think

Enjoy your Swasticar.

The Beetle was popular because the English had seized it and positioned it as a British triumph. Ironically they were unable to sell Triumphs.

The Beetle sold in Europe was after de-nazification, because the original fascist owners had issues delivering on reservations, of all things (and this is true). 

I was in Norway last year and they have plenty of EV models to choose from.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but a bankrupt Nazi is a good start.

Much as oil-barons and their toadies in DC want, EVs are not going away. EVs are FAR better as appliance-like personal transportation (less maintenance, instant acceleration, smoother operation, no gas station visits) than slow, noisy ICE vehicles.

I can’t understand why in this day and age of automation, a company like Toyota still refuses to let their customers custom order their cars like BMW does.

All of this is motivated by the fact that automatics have surpassed manuals for fuel economy, so every manual that a company sells comes with a cost to their fleet average. Because they really, really, don’t want to sell too many manuals, they will not only cap production at some low number, but also put them in the…

This is a chicken or the egg for supply and demand.  The manufacturer says there is no demand (even though there most likely is) and then builds less than 300.  Customers can’t find any (no supply) and settle for an automatic.  Manufacturer claims no one buys them and refuses to produce any more for the next model…

In any other major automobile manufacturer Elon would have been immediately fired for all the customer alienation stuff he’s pulled.

That Koenigsegg/Saab deal was so close to happening a while back before Spyker jumped in. 

They used to all be under fiat until ferarri was spun off as an independent entity, and still share some tech

Thing has always looked like a clown car to me with that bulbous greenhouse. This update is also bad.

Yep, take away the Murica / Trump / Hemi that made these things appealing to a certain demographic and watch the sales evaporate.

They cancelled the top two RWD selling sports cars, put this in its place with an absurd price tag and now they have to discount it nearly 25% just to get people to look at it.  Definitely an own goal.

Is it possible that Stellantis will ever get back into the business of making cars that people actually want to buy?