see your Studebaker and raise you a Citroen.
Posted on 02/12/2024 7:25:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There's a reason very few new automakers have been launched over the past 40 or so years. Building and selling cars takes a tremendous amount of infrastructure.
When you add in having to create not just a new design, but a new method of powering your car, you see why big auto has generally been a closed club. Tesla (TSLA) , of course, has crashed that party, becoming the first startup electric vehicle manufacturer to operate at scale.
You can credit that to the genius and drive of Elon Musk. It may have been lost in his recent conversion to a conspiracy-theory-embracing, far-right internet troll willing to say anything so people pay attention to him, but Musk has been the leading entrepreneur of his time.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Just wait until they start putting power stations in the hoods. They will be stripped 15 minutes.
M$N has to resort to clickbait...the “net” is officially untrustworthy and near the end of it’s commercial veracity. Need a zero commercialized communication structure.
Studebaker great grandson or nephew allegorically I think
Maybe Avanti bought studebaker from bankruptcy ?
The Golden Hawk was a real beauty!
“Just wait until they start putting power stations in the hoods. They will be stripped 15 minutes.”
I just heard that thieves stole a 200-foot radio tower in Alabama:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/alabama-200ft-radio-tower-stolen
After reading down further, the “rival’s” name is “Arrival”, but I guess their word play means we’re supposed to know that ahead of the now-named “rival”. (((sigh)))
YOU WIN POST OF THE DAY -— AGAIN
Well, it’s a litte easier to enter the industry when the government is subsidizing ya.
see your Studebaker and raise you a Citroen.
One valued at 13 billion!
That means they basically defrauded investors of 13 billions.
If somebody wants to resurrect a Studebaker, I think a properly modernized Hawk would sell:
Oh, heck yeah.
Jay Leno's Garage had a piece a year or so ago about a one off EV conversion of a big old Mercury land barge from the late '40s. At the end of it all you have something that will go about 100 miles on a charge, which is about typical for this kind of thing. OK for casual driving.
The headline reads like the story is about the demise of a Tesla rival but then the first 16 lines are dedicated to sycophantic praise for Tesla, before it get so the name of the rival : Arrival.
I only followed the link because I wanted to see if it was a company I’d heard of before, and it wasn’t. More to the point, it isn’t in the OP’s excerpt, which obligates you to click if that’s all you wanted to know (thanks for nothing). So if that’s all you’re after, I just saved you clicking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(company)
Renault, Peugeot, Citroen
Three reasons that the French are known for their WINES.
Cute, but you can’t even go on a realistic beer-run with that.
BINGO it’s a trend now.
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