"@mechimike:The MPG calculations are useless to convert since EPA mileage numbers aren't calculated in the same way as whatever other country's mileage numbers."
"Unless your windows stayed intact and the power windows stopped functioning...in which case I'd guess that you'd have to crawl out some other door or something."
"@monkichi:I think most importantly Lexus also had Toyota's reliability record and excellent resale value to help it lower ownership costs, in addition to having an extremely competitive upfront price for the LS400 it's launch year.
Financially speaking, the LS was an unbeatable deal.Which probably explains why it sold very, very, well it's first year.
With Hyundai's current depreciation this car is going to be as expensive to own as a significantly more expensive Lexus."
"Rick is just saying what he has to say to prevent people from pointing out the fact that nobody is going to buy a Volt if it costs $48,000.
In reality if they just lopped $18,000 off their selling price they're probably eating a massive loss on every car sold, so it's down to either selling very very few of these-or actually eating $18K in losses per car until they get the cost of their EV technology down.
In the long term if they actually managed the latter it'd be very impressive, and put GM back into real competition on the cutting edge.
Unfortunately, knowing GM it seems more likely that they'll just build very limited #'s of Volts, eat the insane loss per vehicle, then hope that gas prices go down.
Really hope GM manages to get their costs down and save their own butts from becoming obsolete.
Maybe, just maybe, GM might see the writing on the wall and realize they have to invest in what they have to invest in, because not doing so could very well mean being completely irrelevant if gas goes even higher (at $10/gallon I'm going to guess that just about the only household vehicles that'll sell are going to need Prius level mileage)"
"Man, I can't wait until I finish school and residency and actually have income again, especially by then I'm sure HKS will have some ridiculous turbo kit that will allow the GT-R to put down 10's easy breezy."
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