Aargh.

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Cake day: March 16th, 2026

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  • Perhaps my original comment was too doom, gloom and harsh. But you can’t really say the Euro car industry is doing well. VAG having factories running on minimum or not at all, lay offs, BMW shooting themself in the foot with all the subscription nonsense… And the price. That’s the big one. Obviously the cheaper chinese things are nastier than a high end BMW, obviously the chinese makers are subsidized by the government… but perhaps the Euro car makers should have lobbied their governments/EU to subsidize their EV production lines, instead of wasting time and effort on moving the 0 Carbon goalposts further away. Though I’ll admit that the EU was moronic with deciding that we should do that in the time window that they did, that whole thing was done ass backwards and on a too tight schedule.






  • Ironically Japanese brands are now the ones that are most behind on electric cars.

    I’m not surprised that European brands have dropped the ball, after all, the British car makers back in the day showed how its done. But I’m baffled that the Japanese dropped it. How is it possible that the Nissan Leaf is among the best EV’s from Japan? How is it possible that Honda is completely lost with all sorts of things, they are nearly extinct on the European market as a whole. You have to really search for a dealer if you want one and if you find one, you have option of a Civic and whatever that SUV thing is, was it the Starion or Ecplipse? On of the two. Anyway…

    Then theres Toyota. I guess they wasted all their money with hydrogen and only focused on hybrids. One would have thought that they would have been on the forefront of EV’s etc but… I don’t even know what was going on there. Do they even have full electric cars? Or is it just sporty Yarises and hybrid Corollas all the way down?