A Horse With No Name

The irony is he will be buying an early production model of the Bolt at some point and doing a concourse restoration..and then towing it behind his 12 mile per gallon Escalade to shows.

Seating position in both is rather agreeable as well.

I think that product would help them quite a bit, actually.

Audi has a fantastic styling vibe, I think.

We can hope the Giulia does well, it is a nice looking automobile.

Personally I think they would do better pushing small crossovers.

There are likeable aspects of both the Edsel and the Lexus though.

Agreed on them needing a purpose, it just seems like sunk costs to me. If they cannot turn a per unit profit, they can sell 2 million model 3 automobiles and it will not matter.

That is actually pretty good thinking. But it assumes that Nissan could not add said things to current lineup. A lot more brand equity in the Nissan name than the Mitsu name.

Long term cash flow is the issue here I think not how innovative the company is or how much we like their cars. We all like Tucker, and they were a very innovative company, but we see how that worked out for them. In all fairness Tesla has gotten a lot further along than Tucker ever did.

It certainly is helping.

In either case, learn to drive that thing...word is owner of the new Green jeep with the manual here at C and G can be a little bit lost in the bush sometimes...

Not sure they are capable of undercutting GM by that much, that seems the stuff of fantasy.

It is a charity venture. They turn zero profit...the more cars they sell, the more money they loose.

So we loose money on every sale but make up for it in volume... Here I thought only people South of the border had a problem with inhaling the wacky tabbacky.

He did refer to it as his new ride... Yes the shaft is very short...

Wildly over priced on the stock exchange.

...and yet everyone for some strange reason sees Tesla as a good business model...strange...

Exactly how I took it.

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Not surprised to see MINI in decline, I think their day has come and gone.