not cars, but McDonnell Douglass and Boeing 

No, the question was seeking controversial opinions, not extremely correct ones that all people of good character should already share.

Do you run into a lot of people who find it controversial to be able to afford a $100k+ car and live in a place with good public transport? That sounds pretty nice to me.

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When Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz merged, the hope was that Benz would help Chrysler build better quality cars. Instead, Benz quality went into the shit catcher, never to recover.

In America, driving mostly sucks and anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.

Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Nevada, Texas, yes, I’ve driven across them all. I do 16-hour days behind the wheel somewhat regularly. At 75mph I’m covering 1150 miles in a day. At 55 it’s still about 900 miles. I would gladly add a few hours on to my trip the next day if it meant I was more relaxed when I got there and…

Toyota should be rubbing it’s hands with glee. It’s old nemesis will be all-consumed in propping up two losing entities that Toyota will have the US market to itself.

You aren’t wrong

The Porsche 944 is better looking than the 928.

Fields and fields.... corn... corn... soybeans... corn... soybeans.... exit... corn....

People wouldn't buy them.

55 MPH is more than a “minor inconvenience”. Have you ever driven (or been a passenger) crossing Kansas at 55 MPH? Christ it felt like I could get out and walk faster than that.

Ha! We have the opposite problem in the US. Honda offers a plethora of SUV/CUVs here in various sizes but no wagons. At least the Civic (and the Accord?) are now hatchbacks/liftbacks, but no wagons.

I probably buy my cars more to look at than drive, I don’t actually drive very far, my 2o22 911 (my only car) has just over 2000 miles on it.

We should have pretty strict size restrictions on how big civilian vehicles can be. Trucks these days can’t even fit to established parking spaces. They block other vehicles’ sight lines on the road, they are unable to see pedestrians or other obstacles and hazards over their massive hoods, and their overcompensating…

Boy, it’d be a shame if Detroit or the state just eminent domain-ed the whole thing and told GM to pound sand. A real shame.

Knock it the fuck down. Why? I'm sick of my Buick beeping at me 3 times if I even barely tap my key fob in my pocket. Fuck these losers. No more tax money for these suck pumps. No more. I'm a union guy to the bone. I'm in a union. I buy union. I bleed union. These assholes have shit on the union. Let them die. I'll…

The joint ownership of GM and Bedrock are seeking $250M from the state. Bedrock is the entity primarily responsible for the demolition and remodeling of the site, but GM is taking all of the bad press because their name is on top of the building.