Ok, not to be a Telsa-stan... but my engineering side wonders.

I get flamed by the Telsa fans, but I think something like Blue Cruise or Supercruise or whatever is better because drivers know what Cruise control can and cannot do and are used to it. This is just enhanced cruise control.

I think the classic idea of “get a cheap car, have a ton of cash in the bank” only works if you have the right mentality for it. I don’t know if this guy is making mature enough decisions to not jump back into an expensive car in 6-12 months and burn through the cash.  So, I’m suggesting that cutting out two…

Likely the older design exhaust manifolds that went down directly and then joined together. In the mid-70s, the came up with this design that allowed the engine to be fit into tighter engine bays with more emissions controls.

I haven’t looked at GM products for years. I just figured that GM could track customers from the blood dripping off the heat shields.

You may be right. One things for sure, now is a great time to own a car that you can trust and a crappy time to have a car you cannot.

What I’ve seen is similar. The priorities should be:

Easy fix, just put a banana peel under the pedal.

And it 100% is in Fisker’s interest to talk them up.

You will need an Ocean of money.

Yeah, I wouldn’t get a used car until 2025 at the earliest. Because math.

His already has depreciated a ton for the usage he got out of it. Why not get more usage? It’s not going to still depreciate as fast as it already has.

I used to me. but got sick of using all my vacation trying to keep a POS running. Now I’m a fan of showing up to work on time and not covered in cuts, bruises and grease.

My hand scar story.

One thing about the older cars is that although reaching a bolt might be easy, they didn’t always do a good job of capturing the nut on the backside and all you could do was spin the assembly.  Access is a lot tighter in today’s cars to get to the bolt or screw, but they at least capture the nut on the backside.

I wouldn’t go that way. I would:

No. Because it isn’t that simple.

I think you missed my point. Someone has a bad experience with something. A car, a Political, a Union, whatever. They tell their friends and family. It gets amplified and told over and over again and becomes part of the family lore about “avoid XYZ because..” Get enough families in the same area with similar stories…

Yes, but “long time” is still recent memory. Show of hands, how many people have heard a second hand story of someone finding beer cans inside of car panels from 1970s Big Three cars. (For me, it’s sort of first hand. Cousin had a couple beer cans he said he pulled out of my aunt’s rear quarter panels on a mid-70s…

I think in the UAW’s case, the biggest problem was in the 70s. and early 80s. US car quality SUCKED in the 70s and early 80s. The low quality crap that the Big 3 made back then smeared everywhere.