G. David Felt

Totally understand this move as with the Gas cheat issues now, they are going ot be hurting for cash big time over the next 10-20 years and people are going to be reluctant to buy their cars so cash is going to be very tight. Executives who can rebuild their cash pile will be the winner at VW corp HQ.

You have pointed out the large amount of uneducated ignorant people too. Education is the great equalizer and allows people of all different colors and religions to co-exist.

Move quick Cory, it is a sad state indeed. I also hope that Trump is more bipartisan and will reach across to others to truly fix the mess that DC has become even though I worry about Pence and his incompetent views.

Diversity makes the world a better place.

They would probably attack me for being married to a Korean. lol

She is totally

Sadly with the amount of baby boomers living longer due to medical advances, we have a long way to go to rid ourselves of ignorance and stupidity. The baby boomers is one of the largest uneducated groups voting for the ignorance of Trump.

I am totally amazed that we have gone so far backwards in just 24hrs in this country.

If you do move to Germany please be careful as the nazi party is pushing to make a comeback.

This year we became reality TV politics and failed at intelligent, common sense dialogue. The country has dropped to a 4th grade level of bulling to get its way. Sad day for the educated working class of the USA. What is your long term plan? A new BOLT? With all the political election talk going on, more and more are probably wondering "Why did I not take the Blue Pill?"

We are now just as bad as the idiot they elected who is murdering anyone he does not like in the Philippines. With Republican total control, people need to brace for this country going backwards 40 years and thumping bibles on people thinking it will change them to their way of thinking. I wonder if the west coast can succeed from the US and become it's own country?

Sergio has destroyed FCA rather than having built it to be a solid company. He could have invested in the profit centers to build bigger profits and then one like Toyota having excess billions could have decided to try and bring back Alfa and improve Fiat, but like uneducated ignorance. His own self delusion has made him a destroyer of companies rather than a builder. He will destroy Ferrari also as he could not proper manage FCA, so why would any competent person think he could improve Ferrari.

Idiot, he will probably whore out and destroy Ferrari the way he has done FCA.

You can believe whatever you want and that is fine. The fact is to me the Lincoln product line is a Buick, Acura Competitor EXCEPT for the Continental where they have truly went way beyond their existing family. Continental is to Lincoln what the CTS was to Cadillac when they finally decided to compete again.

I have and the Continental is the first time I sat in a Lincoln and did not see or feel Ford. The rest of the product line is re-badge Ford.

Interesting and so true, I think MB and BMW will be looked at as just another Chevy, Ford or Toyota in the next 5-10 years. They have screwed up their profit center in the attempt to sell everyone at every price point and forgot that they were an uber luxury line of auto's.

My gut tells me that most people moving forward will not really care about FWD / RWD. The biggest point will be AWD or not, can I get to the mountain to ski / snowboard. Otherwise, make it fuel efficient or Electric and do not bother me with the details. If the auto is on the same platform but look totally different, no one will care anymore for 97% of the buyers. The focus is to make sure the interior of the one brand auto looks nothing like it's sister division. Buick is doing this well, many others are also. So if Lincoln wants to play in the Luxury division, Great, just make sure the outside is Lincoln and the interior is Lincoln. Do not use Ford Plastic circle vents or other stuff that clearly says FORD. Buyers want a Lincoln to be a Lincoln, not a re-badge Ford. This goes for any auto company.

Seems Tesla is on a Roll, Musk wants to speed up his dream of machines creating machines and remove the human error factor out of the factory. Tesla Buying Germany's Grohmann Engineering To Automate, Accelerate Production Forbes just reported this story The company is to be named Tesla Grohmann Automation. Part of his new Tesla Automation group.

For me, I have always loved the Monte Carlo SS Area. Other than being underpowered, the design and color is just awesome.

This just makes me think Mini has lost their focus on how to be Mini. This is not a car, coupe, other auto styles other than Mini IMHO.

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Tesla / Solarcity merger, Brilliant or Disaster? Tesla announced their intent to buy SolarCity and some screamed the sky is falling. Tesla moves forward with offering a complete home solution of Solar panels, battery bank and 220V charging for your Tesla and believes they have the future tied up in a single one stop shopping solution that beats all the other Auto OEMS. The merger final vote by Solarcity shareholders is scheduled for Nov 17th 2016. Yet with this deal not done yet, there are many that have divided into two camps, those that think this is brilliant such as reported by Barron's yesterday that ISS one of the largest outside analyst groups that advises shareholders on mergers gave it's blessing to what they believe is an outstanding tie up of two companies that can maximize return on investments. Barron's believes that Tesla has addressed all the concerns that allow for a successful merger of the two companies and a maximizing of complementary products. Barron's Story One CNBC story feels that this merger might even be a little late. They agree that Solarcity will provide about $1 Billion next year in revenue to the new merged company and add about $500 million in cash to the Tesla corporation over the next 3 years. CNBC Story Then you have the latest story also from CNBC where a different analyst believes this is nothing but one large mistake and that is due to what he sees as an impossible return on the investment. Yet even with that he also points out to strong supporters such as Ron Baron who ownes 1.5 million shares that see a 30 to 50 times return on the stock due to the merger. CNBC Story 2 Yet with all this, “Playing Amish Paradise in my Tesla,” Musk shared with his 5.8 million Twitter followers on Sunday we have the man himself seeing a much simpler life for us all in the new EV world. So what is your thoughts on this whole merger and the new EV world Musk sees for us all?

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Tesla Ends Free Charging Jan 1st 2017 Tesla has announced the end of their free supercharging for all new auto's starting January 1st 2017. CNBC has reported that Tesla has informed them that all auto's sold starting Jan 1st 2017 will only come with a free yearly use of 400KWh or equal to about 1000 miles of driving. After this users of their Supercharging stations will have to pay local electrical rate fee's up to a certain point. This is to allow Tesla to grow their north american network from the current 734 stations with 4600 superchargers. Their superchargers charge a 170 mile range in 30 min. Tesla also has stated that the cost to charge can and will fluctuate over time depending on the time of year and regional area due to the costs of electricity in that area. With Tesla planning to product annually 500,000 cars a year starting in 2018, many think this is necessary to grow. Others feel differently and further yet some wonder if they sell their existing Tesla S, does the life time of free charging transfer with the car to the new owner? This in itself could enhance resale of older tesla's built before January 1st 2017. Tesla has stated that more defined details will be released by the end of 2016. At this time, if you want lifetime free charging, buy your Tesla S or X now and take delivery by April 17th 2017. CNBC story

Placement by marketing is for it to compete against the luxury crowd, yet most people only see Lincoln as a mid level line. So having an $80,000 car is really pushing it. I see these getting sold into the private car service for sure. There will be the baby boomers who want to have the Lazy Boy full size sedan, but at that price? Not sure, I will be watching this closely as right now Lincoln is a mid market product line competing with Acura, Buick, Infinity, etc. That is how I see it IMHO.

If memory serves me correct, was the Dodge, Challenger and 300 not old MB platforms? I would say they have milked these to a whole new level of wringing out every drop.

This just confirms the waste of Billions on bringing back the stupid Italian brands that were already dead rather than investing in the proper labels in the US. No one can prove that the billions wasted on Alfa was worth steeling all the profits from the US labels. This also makes me even more solid about the Killing Chrysler label. Dodge will continue on, kill off the 200, 300 and move the Pacifica to Dodge and Chrysler is dead. I bet FCA in 2020 will announce the death of the 300, the movement of the Pacifica to Dodge and the delay to milk out everything under Jeep and Ram so they can continue to rap the profits to sink into the death traps from Fiat and Alfa. Garbage auto's with checkered history. Should have left them in the history books.