If you can suffer through The Hill's piece, they make the point that it's not just Plaques For Blacks going on. The government wanted to dictate percentages or quotas for everything from felons to veterans.
Could be worse: the government could have demanded Chinese-style joint ventures for TSMC.
I think right to work is a good policy -- at least for skilled workers.
I don't want to work anywhere that I have to belong to or join a union to have a job.
You want to form/join a union, go ahead. And best of luck. But it always seems that most unions -- skilled trades unions excepted -- seem to benefit the lazy and unproductive at the expense of the exceptional. Public schools comes to mind.
i agree with you in the sense that i think the people that werent going to hire american were going to do so regardless of dei nonsense if for no other reason than cheap labour and a compliant workforce but the bigger problem is not being able to hire the people you want and need and theres definitely overlap with diversity there
The tariffs on Chinese EV's is a smokescreen, as several Chinese EV manufacturers are planning to open plants in Mexico where they will "build" EV's for the US market that will neatly avoid the supposed tariff.
I heard a remarkably stupid NPR host (but I repeat myself) say that a 100% tariff was the same thing as a ban. Actually, by the chuckle and hesitation in her voice when she said it I don't think she was stupid. I think there was a PLA officer in the studio with her telling her what to say.
Yep and a double for Biden. He, or the Puppet Master, are in full election heat. Every week/day is another bone for the base. Full political whore mode now to November. This week something for the UAW and the manufacturers. Last week supposedly witholding ammo shipmets from Israe lto please the wackjobs for Gaza. Both these are strictly for show. The Chinese Mexican plants won't be up until well after November and Israel is getting everything it needs back channel. Bullets don't know the difference between offensive or defensive use.
Every week something else to secure votes by screwing with National Security, Economy, Societal norms .... nothing is out of bounds so long as this load of crap can extend for 4 more years.
A whore is a whore. Tricking on the corner or in the Oval office.
Even before he ran full speed through some tall bushes I realized it was a _very_ bad idea and once I got out of there I've never worn shorts again except to swim .
I started to buy lightly used Under Armour golf shorts off of eBay for everyday wear. $15 and I just throw them away after. Their shit is garbage and not worth 50% of retail, but for the cost of a Big Mac meal I’m a buyer.
In my experience Air Monarchs typically develop a squeak between the sock liner and the sneaker within a couple weeks. Real middle-age sneaker guys choose New Balance.
I found stronglifts 10 years ago, I wish I found it 25 years ago. I struggled with fitness when I was younger, but when I am on program I can get a better score on the pft now then when I was 20, without age correction.
I have it on good authority the best way is to have your parents buy you a Huffy White Heat bike for your 12th birthday (approximate weight: 50lbs) and then have the girl you have a crush on live at the bottom of the hill in your neighborhood. Ride your White Heat between her house and yours, up a giant hill, approximately 80 times every afternoon.
Even fat cyclists have good calves. You're flexing and extending your ankles every revolution a lot farther then they go when you are walking or running so the calves get a good workout.
I went a long way in life without knowing my shoes and belt are supposed to match. So what footwear am I supposed to wear with my shorts? I now only wear Topsiders when I am actively boating, so those are out.
I received Ugg fur-lined moccasins as a Christmas gift. 3/3 would buy again. Just don’t be stupid enough to wear them on a layover where you have to walk across two terminals.
Topsiders (even for work--sockless down to temps into the 30s, past that, dress walking shoes with socks), sandals, flip-flops with a sandal sole, e.g., Tevas.
I've got a pair of Johnson & Murphy cordovan oxfords for real dress-up, along with a pair of Bostonian cordovan penny loafers. That's it--Imelda Marcos I ain't!
I had AE Maritimes for years. Split the soles and bought topsides in a pinch. The Sperrys are superior, I hate to admit it but I get why they’re the default boat shoe choice.
Shoes and belt?? Skip the belt and just wear only pants with elastic waistbands like I do and then you can wear any shoe you want, up to and including Saucony trail runners in the most garish color available. (current Sauconies are blue and gray, I haven't worn bright yellow or orange since I was teaching in Japan)
so BYD is bringing their Shark PHEV pickup to Mexico. No plans to bring it to US, so far. Looks like exactly something I want. But they plan to price it starting at $53k!!! WTF! for a Chinese designed built in Mexico small/medium pickup? Insanity.
This Seagull would be every bit of $40k under the same regime. It's ridiculous for people to ignore the effect of exchange rate, but the media does it all the time.
I think you're confusing exchange rate gimmicry with outright subsidy, at the manufacturer and raw material and labor level. I, Sir, shall not allow you to make such mistakes.
I found that out while explaining to a coworker that the '07 and newer Odyssey has the four-shaft tranny from the Pilot/Ridgeline, while the older ones had a weaker three-shaft tranny.
I saw what you did there. As one of those someone-elses I'd just like to say it should have said reason 400-455...how fare you bring and Oldsmobile engine displacement into a Pontiac discussion sir! 🤣
Mine is blown up, nothing inside the bottom of that engine will support any real horsepower and torque, I think for normal cars it’s a good engine, but not great for performance.
Recently I was standing outside a hotel in central america when a hatchback similar to the one pictured pulled up. I thought someone put BYD wheels on an ICE car because I could hear the engine running. After a few minutes I walked around it only to discover it was in fact BYD and there was no exhaust. I guess the HVAC was so loud it sounded like an idling small displacement engine.
Anyone that believes BYD will make a reliable product is fooling themselves. It's amazing how far back people are willing to take progress wise just to "save the planet". I drive a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. I miss pontiac very much. Buick if anything should have taken the axe but it is what it is.
Why not? LS1 powered with huge aftermarket. Modern touchscreen infotainment can be installed. With a budget, you can build it to out handle almost anything new.
I have a C7 and would love to also have a 2001-2 Trans Am. 325 hp, 6 speed manual, a back seat, and lots of low mile examples out there for a fair price. Jay Leno has a great video on his. Last car with T-Tops!
If we’re playing the “car mastubatory fantasy” game, it’s a Hugger Orange 99 M6 car with a HCI LS1 and whatever suspension Sam Strano recommends. Nothing too crazy, but the ideal pony car IMO.
A c7 will just cost you more money and be a headache. First there is the Mexican made wheels that crack if you so much as look at them. The #7 cylinder gets less air volume from the intake due to packaging in the engine compartment. Then the early Z06 models had inefficient cooling for the high strung supercharger. There are screens instead of real gauges. And the outside does not resemble a Corvette anywhere, no pop up headlights, no square round tail lights, and an insect looking front end.
A 4th Generation F-Body is the car where it has modern fuel injection, parts are available for every component, it looks different than anything made today and you don't look like you're a sad man who sits in the departure lounge in an airport with an underwater laptop to cover up your deficiencies.
I don’t mean to be THAT guy, but all the LS has the same basic faults engine wise. Most notably the #7 and it’s a lean condition so it runs hotter. Mine vette is currently in need of a short block due to it when I had a catastrophic ring land event.
Poor balancers, lifter tick / failure, piston slap (most prevalent on earlier cars) etc. The fbody is the same headache in a more cramped bay. About the only saving grace is not having to pull the steering rack for balancer work / cam swaps and a traditional T56 layout. Same garbage clutch hydraulics…
I sold my 02 WS6 in favor of my 03 Z51. In retrospect I wish I’d kept the TA but the chassis improvements and overall better vehicle of the vette was undeniable. The weight difference is real too and don’t think you’re getting away with not breaking that 10 bolt.
Vettes are just non service friendly hot rods and unfortunately a bit on the fragile side themselves. Diff failures have an unwanted tendency to snap transmission input shafts. $$$$$$
I think they kept Buick mostly because some sort of Chinese Emperor / Dictator drove one about 100 years ago, which still gives it brand equity in China.
When you mentioned selling “Monsters”; I immediately thought Ducati. Color me disappointed.
Nobody would give a damn about “cheap Chinese EVs” if the Western World would end the war on fossil fuels and let the market decide.
I find it funny that most folks have no idea that Volvo and Polestar are Chinese. (Polestar is a term that could easily refer to some strippers. Others have probably said that before.)
I ain’t stupid, poor or racist. I am old, have some “backward opinions”, don’t always like “getting on with the program”, and find shorts and sneakers practical on hot days. Further, I’m not convinced about the popular notion of the “reality” of climate change. Doesn’t make me a bad person. And my money is worth the same as everyone else’s.
I still don't know how to pronounce Velostar. A guy working in product management for Hyundai told me that once the Koreans make up their minds, it's hard to convince them otherwise.
IIRC the government initially wanted GM trimmed to just Chevy and Cadillac. GMC was saved based on just pure profitability, and Buick only because of how popular it is in China.
Too bad they couldn’t have kept a couple models from Pontiac and Oldsmobile as sub-brands to be sold in dealers in certain markets without having to have an entire dealer network and division within GM.
Although by now you’d have all xUVs anyway! Still, could have been something to try. No reason that a limited number of Trans Ams couldn’t have gone down the same line as Camaros, for instance.
GMC is a cash cow that fills up assembly plants by building more expensive Chevrolets for customers who think they deserve more than a Chevrolet and GM should keep milking that for as long as customers will let them get away with it.
Those may have been distressed brands but the brand names and related IP for Pontiac and Oldsmobile stayed with the reorganized General Motors and not bundled into the RACER Trust used to sell off former assets. Steven Rattner still knows nothing about the car business.
That’s the same in college admissions. But visual diversity rules the land.
There’s usually a visual element to that, too.
There's almost nothing less visually appealing than that sort of diversity.
If you can suffer through The Hill's piece, they make the point that it's not just Plaques For Blacks going on. The government wanted to dictate percentages or quotas for everything from felons to veterans.
Could be worse: the government could have demanded Chinese-style joint ventures for TSMC.
what is a rightwing bad employment policy?
I think right to work is a good policy -- at least for skilled workers.
I don't want to work anywhere that I have to belong to or join a union to have a job.
You want to form/join a union, go ahead. And best of luck. But it always seems that most unions -- skilled trades unions excepted -- seem to benefit the lazy and unproductive at the expense of the exceptional. Public schools comes to mind.
It’s always easier to criticize than to lead. That’s the M.O. of 99% of politicians.
That being said, DEI is a Marxist concept. “Didn’t Earn It” is an apt description.
Explain how excellence can even exist under an equity regime?
How do you reward excellent employees when the government wants equality of results?
Closet excellence.
i agree with you in the sense that i think the people that werent going to hire american were going to do so regardless of dei nonsense if for no other reason than cheap labour and a compliant workforce but the bigger problem is not being able to hire the people you want and need and theres definitely overlap with diversity there
The tariffs on Chinese EV's is a smokescreen, as several Chinese EV manufacturers are planning to open plants in Mexico where they will "build" EV's for the US market that will neatly avoid the supposed tariff.
I actually Lol’ed at that one. Well played!
I heard a remarkably stupid NPR host (but I repeat myself) say that a 100% tariff was the same thing as a ban. Actually, by the chuckle and hesitation in her voice when she said it I don't think she was stupid. I think there was a PLA officer in the studio with her telling her what to say.
Or the Chairperson of the Democrat Party!
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to
Isn’t a tariff that high a de facto ban?
Yes but then you miss his B.S. ranting point .
-Nate
Yep and a double for Biden. He, or the Puppet Master, are in full election heat. Every week/day is another bone for the base. Full political whore mode now to November. This week something for the UAW and the manufacturers. Last week supposedly witholding ammo shipmets from Israe lto please the wackjobs for Gaza. Both these are strictly for show. The Chinese Mexican plants won't be up until well after November and Israel is getting everything it needs back channel. Bullets don't know the difference between offensive or defensive use.
Every week something else to secure votes by screwing with National Security, Economy, Societal norms .... nothing is out of bounds so long as this load of crap can extend for 4 more years.
A whore is a whore. Tricking on the corner or in the Oval office.
F-950 Jim Crow Edition....stick a Whipple on it and I'll buy one
fed by a pair of kkk turbos
In partnership with that world-famous hot rod brand J.P White Power & Performance.
welcome to klansman motorsports
no we dont work on hellcats
Sponsor of the #88 car driven by Billy Joe Le Petomane of Pig's Knuckle, AR.
Fun Fact: Sterling Marlin is/was sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. IIRC, he’s running Late Models nowadays.
You guys are laughing up your sleeves but the KKK turbocharger in my gray market Mercedes wagon makes it faster than my U.S. market coupe.....
Yes, a 100% tariff is *exactly* the same as Ban .
-Nate
The Master Racing Team
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I’ll buy one as long it has the Godzilla
I’m wearing shorts and sneakers, right now. I thought only ATL-resident cigar chomping ACF commentators objected to this. I’m in my own home at least.
shorts and sneakers are my everyday wear. is there a problem with that?
You need to "get with the program" apparently. As do I...
Ha! My mind's already right!
Well, same here.
I once rode a horse in shorts & sneakers .
Even before he ran full speed through some tall bushes I realized it was a _very_ bad idea and once I got out of there I've never worn shorts again except to swim .
-Nate
I infer that Jack is referencing the stereotypical Boomer Midwestern Corvette owner outfit:
T-shirt
Denim shorts
Diabetic socks
Nike Air Monarchs
New Balance is too cool and on-trend right now for it to be lampooned.
Teddy Santis of ALD is the New Balance MiUSA Creative Director at the moment.
They need to be white on white NBs to really sell the look along with dad jeans.
“Dad” jeans are also on-trend at the moment.
E.g., https://www.aimeleondore.com/products/japanese-selvedge-5-pocket-denim-3
Hey, I've been wearing the 990 since 1997. I'm so far ahead I'm behind.
Creed released their debut album.
I’ve been wearing Sambas since I was a kid because that’s what Blink182 wore. They too have come back around.
Adidas just discontinued them.
My current pair are trashed and last I looked I couldn’t find any with the short tongues. That explains why.
They were great $45 beater shoes. At $100+ per pair, I don’t see the value unless they’re still making ones from kangaroo leather.
This will teach me to write a snarky comment before reading all the replies......
I’ve got Tommy Bahama tshirt
$8 Amazon Starter gym shorts
Puma socks
Nike Air 270s (my 12y/o daughter and all her friends wear them, she assures me they are “not cheugy”)
270s are very 2000 and late. DN is where it’s at.
Trends move to the flatlands here slowly. I’ll pick up the DNs when the 270s become garage shoes in about 6 months.
Air Max 90s. I’m never without at least one pair. A design classic and they’re comfortable for my extremely cramp prone feet.
your forgot the ball cap and polarized sunglasses
And the Robin Miller mustache.
The ball cap also has to be unironically ugly / garish.
I thought it was all about the New Balance? Even my "what is out" information is out of date.
Pair of old Champion mesh basketball shorts. No shoes, no shirt!
Champion? Look at you being all fancy.
I started to buy lightly used Under Armour golf shorts off of eBay for everyday wear. $15 and I just throw them away after. Their shit is garbage and not worth 50% of retail, but for the cost of a Big Mac meal I’m a buyer.
It’s insulting that a Big Mac meal is $15. Just saying
remember when subway had their 5 dollar footlong commercials
that was far too recent as they are not even close to that price now
In my experience Air Monarchs typically develop a squeak between the sock liner and the sneaker within a couple weeks. Real middle-age sneaker guys choose New Balance.
im against shorts because im not built like a navy seal and have chicken legs
Start squatting. I have epic dad calves from years of MTB and running. Aside from a full head of hair it’s my only really admirable physical feature.
i havent got the hair so squat rack it is
naturally
Gixxer.
With the extended rear swing arm, mirror delete and Big Booty kit so it can't handle anymore.
I found stronglifts 10 years ago, I wish I found it 25 years ago. I struggled with fitness when I was younger, but when I am on program I can get a better score on the pft now then when I was 20, without age correction.
Dad calves. Mom jeans. Etc.
What IS IT with "mom" and "dad" this and that? You mean clothes that don't make you look like either a skank or a douchebag?
Calves are legs. Nothing to do with clothes.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3TZuerjnw0qyI21oEHE51JGy8ePuvJ6ue2XnuFfj7LQ&s
Sure, I know, but I was referring to the use of "mom" or "dad" as a disdainful descriptor of various articles of clothing.
Dad jeans are literally the style of straight cut Levi's apparently every dad wore in the 90s, including mine.
Lift heavy and do the stair master for cardio. Will see returns very quickly.
noted
i used to bike 60kms on the weekends
should get back into that
Still need the lifts, though.
Yep.
Everyone knows the one true way to get excellent legs is to be very fat for a period of time.
That isn’t exactly prudent advice though, so next best is to lift heavy.
I have it on good authority the best way is to have your parents buy you a Huffy White Heat bike for your 12th birthday (approximate weight: 50lbs) and then have the girl you have a crush on live at the bottom of the hill in your neighborhood. Ride your White Heat between her house and yours, up a giant hill, approximately 80 times every afternoon.
Even fat cyclists have good calves. You're flexing and extending your ankles every revolution a lot farther then they go when you are walking or running so the calves get a good workout.
I went a long way in life without knowing my shoes and belt are supposed to match. So what footwear am I supposed to wear with my shorts? I now only wear Topsiders when I am actively boating, so those are out.
I received Ugg fur-lined moccasins as a Christmas gift. 3/3 would buy again. Just don’t be stupid enough to wear them on a layover where you have to walk across two terminals.
Topsiders (even for work--sockless down to temps into the 30s, past that, dress walking shoes with socks), sandals, flip-flops with a sandal sole, e.g., Tevas.
I've got a pair of Johnson & Murphy cordovan oxfords for real dress-up, along with a pair of Bostonian cordovan penny loafers. That's it--Imelda Marcos I ain't!
I wear Topsiders religiously, but for walking more than about a half a mile I need actual gym shoes because I’m old.
I had AE Maritimes for years. Split the soles and bought topsides in a pinch. The Sperrys are superior, I hate to admit it but I get why they’re the default boat shoe choice.
Quoddy makes the best “boat shoe”.
Shoes and belt?? Skip the belt and just wear only pants with elastic waistbands like I do and then you can wear any shoe you want, up to and including Saucony trail runners in the most garish color available. (current Sauconies are blue and gray, I haven't worn bright yellow or orange since I was teaching in Japan)
so BYD is bringing their Shark PHEV pickup to Mexico. No plans to bring it to US, so far. Looks like exactly something I want. But they plan to price it starting at $53k!!! WTF! for a Chinese designed built in Mexico small/medium pickup? Insanity.
This Seagull would be every bit of $40k under the same regime. It's ridiculous for people to ignore the effect of exchange rate, but the media does it all the time.
I think you're confusing exchange rate gimmicry with outright subsidy, at the manufacturer and raw material and labor level. I, Sir, shall not allow you to make such mistakes.
Can't it be both?
Making a Seagull in Mexico can't allow for an $11k transaction price.
They missed a great opportunity for a "Trans-Am Day of Visibility" joke.
A great car from an age before the Freak Show ruined yet another word for the rest of us.
Can't talk about tranny issues without earning a sideways glance from your more sensitive coworkers...
I found that out while explaining to a coworker that the '07 and newer Odyssey has the four-shaft tranny from the Pilot/Ridgeline, while the older ones had a weaker three-shaft tranny.
Tremec, not "Avalon" from Accounting.
Dibs on the ice monster!
You got it. Text me 8592856635
Sir, this is not behind a paywall
Ehhhh I’ve had this number for 16 years, do your worst
*Dials furiously*
"Is Amanda there?"
"This is Peggy!"
Who, Mandy White?
She didn't say she was... Nope, I don't know no Mandy White
It's me again, Margaret!
I saw what you did there. As one of those someone-elses I'd just like to say it should have said reason 400-455...how fare you bring and Oldsmobile engine displacement into a Pontiac discussion sir! 🤣
bop blasphemy
My trans am came with a 403, am going to replace with a poncho
I support that but found the 403 in my 78 Toronado very reliable and returned 20 MPG on regular gas
Mine is blown up, nothing inside the bottom of that engine will support any real horsepower and torque, I think for normal cars it’s a good engine, but not great for performance.
"couldn’t wait to tell you how much they despised their readers."
Well, the readers do despise them back. It is a testament to how much I like cars to put up with it.
theyre perfect for each other
Re: Hanson Nirvana…always liked this one…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/acrider/6800673214
He would've made an AWESOME Gandalf!
Recently I was standing outside a hotel in central america when a hatchback similar to the one pictured pulled up. I thought someone put BYD wheels on an ICE car because I could hear the engine running. After a few minutes I walked around it only to discover it was in fact BYD and there was no exhaust. I guess the HVAC was so loud it sounded like an idling small displacement engine.
It's cheaper to make when you take unnecessary cartridge bearings out of it!
Another reason not to be a fan of these! 😋
I’m here all week—try the shrimp fried rice!
youre telling me a shrimp fried that rice
get real
You're goddam right
They're not only involved, they're committed
Anyone that believes BYD will make a reliable product is fooling themselves. It's amazing how far back people are willing to take progress wise just to "save the planet". I drive a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. I miss pontiac very much. Buick if anything should have taken the axe but it is what it is.
Why not? LS1 powered with huge aftermarket. Modern touchscreen infotainment can be installed. With a budget, you can build it to out handle almost anything new.
I get it, better off with the C7
I have a C7 and would love to also have a 2001-2 Trans Am. 325 hp, 6 speed manual, a back seat, and lots of low mile examples out there for a fair price. Jay Leno has a great video on his. Last car with T-Tops!
Yeah but it has the Playschool plastic interior. Yuck. I’d much rather have a 73 or 74 Formula 400.
Agree, but the 2001-02 Trans Ams are now cheap compared to all other interesting V8 coupes. A nice old Formula or Trans Am is expensive these days.
If we’re playing the “car mastubatory fantasy” game, it’s a Hugger Orange 99 M6 car with a HCI LS1 and whatever suspension Sam Strano recommends. Nothing too crazy, but the ideal pony car IMO.
A c7 will just cost you more money and be a headache. First there is the Mexican made wheels that crack if you so much as look at them. The #7 cylinder gets less air volume from the intake due to packaging in the engine compartment. Then the early Z06 models had inefficient cooling for the high strung supercharger. There are screens instead of real gauges. And the outside does not resemble a Corvette anywhere, no pop up headlights, no square round tail lights, and an insect looking front end.
A 4th Generation F-Body is the car where it has modern fuel injection, parts are available for every component, it looks different than anything made today and you don't look like you're a sad man who sits in the departure lounge in an airport with an underwater laptop to cover up your deficiencies.
Fuck touchscreens. I want buttons and arming-cover switches.
I don’t mean to be THAT guy, but all the LS has the same basic faults engine wise. Most notably the #7 and it’s a lean condition so it runs hotter. Mine vette is currently in need of a short block due to it when I had a catastrophic ring land event.
Poor balancers, lifter tick / failure, piston slap (most prevalent on earlier cars) etc. The fbody is the same headache in a more cramped bay. About the only saving grace is not having to pull the steering rack for balancer work / cam swaps and a traditional T56 layout. Same garbage clutch hydraulics…
I sold my 02 WS6 in favor of my 03 Z51. In retrospect I wish I’d kept the TA but the chassis improvements and overall better vehicle of the vette was undeniable. The weight difference is real too and don’t think you’re getting away with not breaking that 10 bolt.
Vettes are just non service friendly hot rods and unfortunately a bit on the fragile side themselves. Diff failures have an unwanted tendency to snap transmission input shafts. $$$$$$
Also the Fbody FEAD system is stupid. They like to eat alternators due to location.
Singerized '88 GTA for me, my good man.
As much as I like the LT1 cars, they're kinda fat and blobbish by comparison.
I'll take one too. Peak F-Body for me.
I'd take lots of vintage mobiles of the auto persuasion..if they're in the condition that one Adam Wade in the Detroit area seems to find!
Along with enclosed, rodent-free places to store them!
Buick was too important to China.
That's "Bruick!"
I think they kept Buick mostly because some sort of Chinese Emperor / Dictator drove one about 100 years ago, which still gives it brand equity in China.
Well it is an old person car. They were kind of hip in the 60s though.
YOU DARE FORGET THE GNX?!
Not to mention the Stage 2 GS!
And that!
Buick was/is a very popular brand in China.
When you mentioned selling “Monsters”; I immediately thought Ducati. Color me disappointed.
Nobody would give a damn about “cheap Chinese EVs” if the Western World would end the war on fossil fuels and let the market decide.
I find it funny that most folks have no idea that Volvo and Polestar are Chinese. (Polestar is a term that could easily refer to some strippers. Others have probably said that before.)
I ain’t stupid, poor or racist. I am old, have some “backward opinions”, don’t always like “getting on with the program”, and find shorts and sneakers practical on hot days. Further, I’m not convinced about the popular notion of the “reality” of climate change. Doesn’t make me a bad person. And my money is worth the same as everyone else’s.
I enjoy pronouncing “Polestar” in a way that makes it rhyme with “molester” when around car people.
I’m going to steal that!
Ditto
Thirded.
Fifthed--I need a drink! 🍸
Bye bye serial numbers!
I still don't know how to pronounce Velostar. A guy working in product management for Hyundai told me that once the Koreans make up their minds, it's hard to convince them otherwise.
Pole star is a car for strippers
Ditto
Weather permitting, I know you’re going to rock Mid Ohio this weekend. Enjoy!
I kept scrolling, looking for the Lake Ontario monster. Ah, well.
The only one I don’t have :)
Of course!
Pontiac was shut down by the government, not Buick, I think to appease the Chinese
IIRC the government initially wanted GM trimmed to just Chevy and Cadillac. GMC was saved based on just pure profitability, and Buick only because of how popular it is in China.
Agreed, even though my rose colored glasses clamor for something otherwise.
Too bad they couldn’t have kept a couple models from Pontiac and Oldsmobile as sub-brands to be sold in dealers in certain markets without having to have an entire dealer network and division within GM.
Although by now you’d have all xUVs anyway! Still, could have been something to try. No reason that a limited number of Trans Ams couldn’t have gone down the same line as Camaros, for instance.
GMC is a cash cow that fills up assembly plants by building more expensive Chevrolets for customers who think they deserve more than a Chevrolet and GM should keep milking that for as long as customers will let them get away with it.
IIRC, GMC has/had an average transaction price on par with luxury brands.
GMC sold over 563,000 new vehicles last year at high transaction prices, it’s hard to walk away from that much revenue.
Those may have been distressed brands but the brand names and related IP for Pontiac and Oldsmobile stayed with the reorganized General Motors and not bundled into the RACER Trust used to sell off former assets. Steven Rattner still knows nothing about the car business.
US Auto Industry, not Pontiac, to appease the domestic Marxists, not Chinese.
There, fixed it for you.
Agreed