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Ford cranked out ≈4.4 million cars in 2023-24, almost all of them gasoline-burners. If the conversation is about an EV future (mandated in the EU by 2035 and in China by 2030 for Tier-1 cities), boasting about ICE volume is like bragging you make more fax machines than Apple ships iPhones. Scale...

Ford sold ~68k full-EVs in the U S during 2024; Tesla shipped 1.8 million worldwide. That’s a 25-to-1 gap, in spite of the fact that Ford actually launched its first EV (the Focus Electric) in 2011, almost two years before the Model S. A decade-plus head start squandered is hardly an indictment...

“Operating margin falls to 2 percent, sound the death knell!” Spare me. Ford just warned of $5 billion in EV losses for 2025, yet no one here is auditioning for its eulogy. Tesla, meanwhile, still made money on every car while idling its biggest factory for a three-week Model Y re-tool, a...

If your experiment was to conjure a straw-man so overwrought it needs smelling-salts, congratulations: you’ve given birth to it. Alas, the tantrum you fabricated bears no relation to the column inches I actually wrote. What I did not say That American firms should roam Europe...

OK, let’s separate means from motive. 1. Enforcement mechanisms Enforcement mechanisms Fines are indispensable; I’ve never argued otherwise. What rankles is their performative modesty. If the real goal is compliance, do what the EU did to Microsoft in 2008 and levy daily penalties until the...

Whiniest tone, you say? De gustibus. If you require something pitched lower on the emotional register, simply read it aloud in your own voice; the argument will survive the translation. Quite. And when Washington slaps tariffs or California imposes privacy rules that spill across borders, the...

No, though I’m touched you think a Musk-bot could manage this many subordinate clauses without bursting a fuse. I still bang these words out the old-fashioned way: fingers on keys, coffee in veins, and a mild contempt for sanctimony in the air. If the prose feels a little sharper than the local...

Behold, the Brussels commissariat has once again clambered atop its papier-mâché moral high ground to “save” Europeans from the depredations of American ingenuity. Apple is ordered to subsidise every would-be rival’s checkout page; Meta is told to flog an “equivalent” service no sane person...

It's astonishing to see some in this community so utterly consumed by Musk-derangement syndrome that they're openly flirting with violence as a form of "justice," as Emon here so subtly implied before getting tossed from the thread. Some of who just a few days ago were romanticizing arson and...

If brevity is what you crave, allow me to offer it now: You are overly sensitive, dramatically indignant, and far too eager to cry foul at a perceived slight rather than engage with the real criticism offered.

Ah, how swiftly the stalwart opponents of "whataboutism" have discovered its charms! To those commenters suggesting Wagner is somehow a misunderstood patriot or even a "hero," one must inquire: since when did burning down buildings and torching cars become legitimate political discourse? To...

Calm yourself. It's interesting to witness how quickly your rhetorical decorum descends into personal histrionics and vehement indignation. My criticism was never about accusing you specifically of directly defending tariffs, it was about your complacency within an echo chamber which...

Let me get this straight: you're profoundly worried about dumping when, amusingly enough, the largest and most damaging "dumping" taking place in 2025 isn't cheap Chinese BEVs, but legacy auto manufacturers flooding markets worldwide with ICE vehicles; technologically obsolete, environmentally...

Well, bubbelah, if I may briefly borrow your delightful epithet, while ars might not strictly operate as a single-minded organism, it undeniably hosts a rather conspicuous chorus, one of which, you are very well aware, you hold a comfortable seat. To suggest otherwise borders charmingly upon the...

It’s amusing, if predictably depressing, to watch the same crowd that once fervently cheered the Biden administration’s punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (measures transparently designed to subsidize our own mediocrity) now suddenly awake to the fundamental truth that tariffs are...

If calling out your selective embrace of censorship sounds to you like a tired old "screed," perhaps that's because hypocrisy, no matter how artfully rationalized, eventually reveals itself as rather tedious. Whether under the influence of a bong or an LLM, I’d wager clarity still exceeds that...

I must confess a certain weary amusement observing the fervent defenders of censorship here at Ars suddenly recoiling at the sting of their own venom. I've watched you applaud every creeping advance of "content moderation," every cheering embrace of state-sanctioned "fact-checking," and every...

The film industry's fondness for dystopian narratives shouldn't dictate our understanding of reality. Hollywood profits from fear; perhaps that's why a printing press uprising never hit the big screen. Rational discussions about AI should be guided by evidence, not screenplays. I appreciate...

It never ceases to amaze, though perhaps it should no longer surprise, that the modern neo-Luddite adopts a posture of righteous indignation toward the tools of progress. Yet, this perpetual chorus of anxiety and despair, which regards artificial intelligence as nothing short of a monstrous...

No ChatGPT is needed to call out the cynics in the room. But if one were to ask where I draw my writing style from, I’d suggest trying to reverse-engineer the 'prompt' behind this image.