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riviera74

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  1. riviera74
    Yeah. The 1970s called: they want their personal luxury coupes back.
  2. riviera74
    Wow. Cash flow problems bad enough that Tesla has to request a refund? Tesla may die within five years; I'll take the under.
  3. riviera74
    Having the NAIAS in June means NO MORE ANGRY WINTERS to deal with. That should dramatically increase participation in NAIAS from all comers. But I have to ask: from a weather standpoint, is June as awful as January?
  4. riviera74
    The new CEO has a choice: save Dodge/Chrysler or save FIAT/Alfa Romeo. He MUST choose wisely.
  5. riviera74
    I had no idea Sergio was ill. At the same time, replacing him with Manley should provide some hope for those who are pro-Chrysler and anti-FIAT. FIAT and Alfa Romeo do not even belong in the USA since neither fill a niche that can be filled by somebody else. "You know, I would like my ordinary car (or luxury car) to be made by Italians," said NO ONE (in NA) EVER.
  6. riviera74
    I agree with you on retaliation by China and the EU, since they will not stand for this. But does he understand that? I think not.
  7. riviera74
    Sad but true. No one wants to pay for these low-mileage woolly mammoths, especially when it comes to repair bills and $4 gasoline.
  8. riviera74
    Both parts are really scary when you think about it. Can't NHTSA just build a proper searchable database to address those issues?
  9. riviera74
    If the president thinks that highish tariffs will bring production to the USA on a permanent basis, he has another thing coming. While SOME foreign-made vehicles are assembled here, not all of them will. There is no reason that BMW would ever build their sedans here; same with Mercedes or VW or Audi. Volvo moving some of its production to Sweden does not prevent the president from essentially declaring a trade war against Sweden in particular or Europe more generally. Sorry, no one can bring back the Eisenhower 1950s, even if this president and a lot of midwesterners would like to do just that.
  10. riviera74
    Warning to all: tariff wars tend to lead to shooting wars. As for PSA, what can they offer that cannot be filled by the Japanese or the Koreans or the Germans?
  11. riviera74
    Actually, it is good that the MDX and the Pilot are getting the same upgrades. These will be more valuable to the Pilot given the lower MSRP.
  12. riviera74
    Given this administration's policies on trade, it is a wise idea to build these new vehicles in TN as opposed to Germany.
  13. riviera74
    Maybe that should be the next one: a Bolt version of the City Express.
  14. riviera74
    Why should any automaker turn over such information to ANY government?! China should never ask for such info and neither should the US government. China should not require that all intellectual property be turned over to state-owned enterprises either. Since China's entire plan and policy is to monopolize technologies that are used worldwide any way they can, the answer is at best total trade isolation of China ---- if not an actual shooting war. Unfortunately, for many reasons, we may end up having one.
  15. riviera74
    Even at $100 a barrel, nearly all types of oil extraction becomes very plausible and possibly very profitable. $150-$200 a barrel will not be sustainable over the medium or long term because of this.
  16. riviera74
    Paying gas stations to install charging stations is probably NOT a good idea. Instead of subsidies, China should ditch all oil subsidies NOW and raise oil taxes (which will raise gas prices). I am not sure how China is actually going to reduce the number of already existing ICE cars and go fully electric without higher prices on crude oil first.
  17. riviera74
    Volvo diesels have not sold in high numbers here in the USA for a long time. EV is the best way to go forward. Good for them.
  18. riviera74
    While escaping Detroit winters are totally understandable, are Detroit summers actually OK or ridiculously hot and humid?
  19. riviera74
    That may be less of an issue than you think because most third world nations are too poor to care about emissions. They want the jobs and literally nothing else (other than the occasional bribe or two).
  20. riviera74
    A VW EV Beetle sounds like a good idea. Call me when the Atlas is an EV, then I will know they are serious.
  21. riviera74
    First of all Mercedes was selling luxury cars in the USA as far back as the late '70s. In the '80s, it seemed that the in thing to buy from a luxury standpoint was buying a Benz or a BMW. (Audi was doing OK until about 1986.) Only in 1990 with the Original Lexus LS did the Germans face real competition in the luxury car segment. (No, the Acura Legend from 1986 was near-luxury at best, even back then). If the US were to somehow secure tariff-free access to the EU in exchange for the same thing here, I do have one question: who buys US-made cars and trucks in Europe? EU citizens are a lot more parochial in terms of what cars they buy than we are. My other question is this: what does Detroit gain in having tariff-free and unfettered access to a market that will not buy a single thing from us?
  22. riviera74
    SUVs are rebodied pickup trucks. Crossovers (or CUVs) are rebodied cars. Please remember this. Yes, we are in a time when CUVs and SUVs are kicking sedans' rear ends every day on the sales charts. I wonder if that is sustainable if gas exceeds $4 a gallon again.
  23. riviera74
    Why Sergio is obsessed with selling FCA: check out those painful Chrysler and Dodge numbers. P.S. what happened to Buick?
  24. riviera74
    And if Hyundai buys FCA, Sergio gets what he wants for his overlords in Italy ----- a successful quest for more money.
  25. riviera74
    Pride goeth before the fall.
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