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... here's more: a tariff war means other countries will put tariffs on American products, which means they will be less competitive in foreign markets and that to the extent those products are components in other countries more highly processed products that come back, they are more expensive...

Big fan. Here’s my ‘93 MR2. It’s my around town car, the Blackwing’s more for highways. Every now and then I think of selling it and then I drive it and I think there’s no way I’m ever selling this. It’s faster, roomier, and more interesting than a Miata, which is the closest thing to it on the...

Black CT5s look good, too, but if you’re fussy (and I am), a black car only looks clean for about the first 5 minutes or so after you finished washing it. And in winter… fuhgeddaboudit!

I bought both my Blackwings from Disbrowe in St. Thomas. Small dealership, small town, but no waiting list for the first one and I was high enough the second time around that I even passed on an allocation for a 23 before pulling the trigger on my current 24. Phone them and other dealers, big...

Google AI tells me that the lifetime risk of dying in a car crash in the United States is 1 in 93, or a 1.08% chance based on data from the National Safety Council in 2022. So that means if you only drive the BW from this date forward and no other car, there is a chance that you will die in it...

Not good. Important to keep them in the car in case you ever need to be towed or put on a flat bed. You don't want that to happen, of course, but you keep a spare tire even though you hope not to get a flat... oh yeah, never mind.

Is this a joke? OMG the drama! Sick to your stomach, awake at night? Sorry if I am not sounding very compassionate but your post is pretty out there and so take this as a bit of tough love. If you are really suffering this much, sell it. And for God's sake don't buy a Stellantis product if you...

Dry pavement is fine on straights and interstates, moderate rain maybe too, but I’d suggest taking it easy on the throttle in corners if you end up on any winding secondary highways. Leave all the nannies in place too, set to max, because they will help if things suddenly let loose.

Which gets us back to why - or at least maybe why - this thread has been hijacked about tariffs and other boring sub-topics and tangents, probably mainly by me. The question has been answered. Should you avoid buying this car because of worries about the LT4 blowing up? F*ck no! If it does, it...

New media / old media all want our heads to spin. Whether it’s CNN, Fox, YouTube, Instagram, X, Apple or Google newsfeed, Alsofans, whatever, outrage creates attention creates advertising revenue and we’re all worse for it. Including me. For example, my attention-span has been so f*cked up by...

If I might add something that the current and past Canadian administrations all agree upon and that is that free trade agreements requires fair trade policies between the trading partners, and the Chinese are not fair traders and so no free trade with them. Despite what should be an alliance...

It’s very simple: there were always plants in Canada building Big Three cars and others. Until the 1960s, tariffs on both sides of the border meant that plants in Canada built cars solely for the Canadian market, and plants in the US built the same models for Americans. That was stupid, really...

... though I could say a ton about all the dangerous crap that enters this country from your side... sorry, sorry again, strike that!

Okay, if it helps everyone to blame the Canuck who started this, blame me, but let's not start another blue versus red civil war. This thread was originally about the reliability of the LT4 engine until it went down a "whether or not there will be a 2026 Blackwing at all" rabbit-hole which led...

Thanks for this post. And with that, this it to say that I need to get back on track myself, especially as I am the kind of forum member who complains when these threads go off on long political tangents. So, my deepest Canadian apologies for the distraction, and, yes, stop worrying about the...

Mexico only, even though there is no issue at the Canadian border. So now it's just us Canadians, at least in North America (not counting Greenland) who have to have to hold their breath and see what happens. Great way to maintain friendly relations with allies.

The danger is that he wants to raise tariffs by enormous 19th century amounts to raise money for a tax cut, which is economically stupid. But this way to raise revenue is a bizarre obsession of Trump's, and I think he doesn't want to come right out and say it because tax cuts for the rich...

Back and forth six times or more: Take the U.S. auto industry, which is really a North American industry because supply chains in the three countries are highly integrated. In 2024 Canada supplied almost 13% of U.S. imports of auto parts and Mexico nearly 42%. Industry experts say a vehicle...

Too bad the Chinese market CT5 Isn’t built (ahem) here in North America as it’s a huge seller in China: https://www.gminsidenews.com/threads/cadillac-ct5-hits-200-000-sales-in-china.307629/