• aleph@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Perhaps the Big Three deserve destruction; after all, they hooked us on S.U.V.s in the first place and then fell behind in the E.V. race.

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    After years of persuading Americans to buy oversized SUVs and pickups instead of sedans, it comes back to bite them in the ass.

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      4 months ago

      Seriously! Fuck luxury vehicles. The everyday US resident needs affordable transportation to get around this private transit country.

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      If they have to go through all the safety tests that the US requires that other countries don’t, as well as be able to handle recalls that the US requires when a quality issue causes a safety concern, then I don’t think they’ll still cost $11,000.

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    4 months ago

    God dammit. I had Miley Cyrus stuck in my head for two fucking hours after this headline was posted yesterday. I don’t even fucking like that song. WHYYY