"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/14/2018 at 10:53 • Filed to: Taketheoutsideline, Satire
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/14/2018 at 10:53 • Filed to: Taketheoutsideline, Satire | 11
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Welcome to The Morning Sh*t! Shot through the heart and I’m to blame; I give cars a bad name.
1 st Wipe : Everyone had a bad sales year except Subaru…but it was bolstered by cheap financing deals that will soon go away. And now your dog refuses to co-sign for you, even for an Outback.
2 nd Wipe : Chinese government ramping up consumer incentives for EV purchases and mandating that manufacturers produce a certain amount of them. That’s the free market at work, comrade.
3 rd Wipe : 13 automakers offering $130 million to people injured by Takata airbags as part of a large plaintiffs’ case. That’s $129.7 million for the two lead attorneys and tree fiddy for you.
4 th Wipe : Tesla’s expansion into China delayed as company negotiates with government over manufacturing ownership. That’s the free market at work, Elon.
5 th Wipe : The Lexus UX is a new – say it with me – compact crossover that will reportedly be built in northern France. The company denies it, insisting that nobody in France even knows what a Lexus is.
Flush : Sakichi Toyoda was born on this day in 1867 and went on to found a textile machinery and loom company that eventually became Toyota Motor Corporation. Its first car, the cleverly-named AA, acknowledged that it was powerless to do anything original and just copied a Chevy design. Later Toyota made amends by allowing Chevy to copy everything it did instead.
WilliamsSW
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/14/2018 at 10:58 |
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Happy Ash Wednesday!
Cé hé sin
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/14/2018 at 10:58 |
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The company denies it, insisting that nobody in France even knows what a Lexus is.
That’s probably true. The French do not buy Lexi at all.
Chinny Raccoon
> Cé hé sin
02/14/2018 at 11:14 |
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Being fair, nowhere in Europe does either.
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Cé hé sin
> Chinny Raccoon
02/14/2018 at 12:08 |
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I do actually see them quite often. Not the really big ones which have completely disappeared but those crossovery hybrid things. The small one, the IS, was quite common because it was sold as a diesel.
Chariotoflove
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/14/2018 at 18:45 |
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3rd: ain’t it the truth.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Cé hé sin
02/14/2018 at 18:46 |
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They’d probably pronounce UX as Ugh...
And everyone else would call it the UXB.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
02/15/2018 at 05:07 |
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are Lexus sold in France or Europe?
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Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
02/15/2018 at 06:31 |
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Mais oui.