Season 4 of the Motor Mouth podcast kicks off with one of the hottest topics in the automotive industry, and that is the stunning rise of Chinese manufacturers and the subsequent stumbles of century old legacy automakers. Could we really see one of the world’s biggest car companies go out of business?

David has written extensively on this topic in his weekly Motor Mouth column, and not surprisingly has some unique hot takes. From there he weighs in on a related subject, and that is what should be the bigger priority when it comes to building electric vehicles, the economy or the environment? And should we be building, and supporting, low-cost EVs at the expense of lower wages to produce them?