Comments on: Daily Podcast: TTAC’s Back and it’s Bad

By: Joshvar

Joshvar — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:23:44 +0000

Is it me, or did Justin sound pretty down for most of the podcast? Still feeling queasy from the last podcast? :)

By: Frank Williams

Frank Williams — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:00 +0000

The first 25 or so Teslas were sold to investors. If you’re waiting for them to start selling to people who aren’t associated with the company in one way or another before you consider them “delivering” cars, you’ll be waiting a while.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:40:02 +0000

IMHO, Jeep still has some positive brand value here in Europe, although it’s waning a little bit. Jeep suffered a lot with the Grand Cherokee when the X5 came along, because it’s positioned directly against that in Europe and the current model just can’t cut it anymore.

I almost never see any other Jeeps on the road. I vaguely remember there’s a new Cherokee (Liberty) now but I’ve never seen one so I can’t really be sure. The Patriot/Compass–> never mind. The Commander might even have been discontinued here in the Netherlands.

Basically the appeal is still based on the Wrangler, although there really is no market for it over here. It’s a niche product anyway, but even more niche right heren than in the US.
Still a lot of people will designate cars that have some resemblance to a classic 4*4 with the name Jeep…but unfortunately for them they can’t really capitalize on that and given fuel+tax costs I doubt if they could in the future.

In other continents it might be able to do well if there’s economic growth, although in Asia and by that I mean China/India I fear most will opt for cheaper rip-offs.

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:05:36 +0000

top gear does have it’s own track ya know (besides the airfield). the one stig tests the cars on. I think they’re putting it in the new GT game even.

By: NeonCat93

NeonCat93 — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:40:23 +0000

@ menno

Actually, Tesla was Croatian. Both Serbs and Croats get very upset if you confuse the two. Just because they come from the same part of the world, look alike and have the same language with a different alphabet is no reason to mistake one for the other.

There was an extremely cool Modern Marvels on Tesla the other night on the History Channel. Brilliant but deeply weird dude, he was.

By: the duke

the duke — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:27:41 +0000

Am I the only one who caught the Monkey’s song reference going along with the Monkeymobile? And at 26, I’m hardly the “new generation” they originially referred to.

P.S. – Glad to have TTAC back.

By: David Holzman

David Holzman — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:41:53 +0000

SUV drivers not going to buy wagons? Some of them are buying Fits, Yarises, and Priuii. If they buy Fits, Yarises and Priuii, they will buy wagons. Money speaks a language even SUV drivers understand.

By: George Labrador

George Labrador — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:06:56 +0000

Me too, I missed seeing my favourite site! It was hard to take! welcome back!

By: KixStart

KixStart — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:08:15 +0000

Adam Carolla would have been a host?

That changes things. If you don’t try to make a distinction between “complete irresponsbility” and “journalistic independence,” then ATG might have had something that you could call “journalistic independence.”

By: menno

menno — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:18:38 +0000

Nicola Tesla was born in Yugoslavia. The state of Serbia, I believe. I’ve read a lot about him over the years.

By: menno

menno — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:15:50 +0000

Phew. I was having TTAC withdrawal.

By: Dinu Uscatu

Dinu Uscatu — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Good to have you back!

I was thinking you were switching over to the new and improved TTAC and that we were getting so many new Web 2.0 features that you just had to take a (server) time out.

By: serpico

serpico — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:21:54 +0000

Oh come on, I listen every day. I must be number 10 at least. :)
Keep up the good work dudes.

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:19:15 +0000

I need my fix.

Don’t ever do that again!

Or perhaps I should get a life, I don’t know…

By: quasimondo

quasimondo — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:18:21 +0000

TTAC was down?

By: alexdykes

alexdykes — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:03:25 +0000

Thank God TTAC is back! I was suffering withdrawal.

By: Jordan Tenenbaum

Jordan Tenenbaum — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:02:40 +0000

Okay, I’m looking forward to the Prius review.