If they give you a compensation package/buyout or risk being laid off, I would take the compensation package in most cases unless you think you will have trouble getting a new job at similar pay.    This is them wanting to get rid of you and you should see the writing on the wall.   You may be able to negotiate…

The FAA has been “studying” minimum seat space for I think upwards of a decade. If we had the FAA dictating minimum seat distance on all planes and then, pray tell, a minimum size for overhead bins, flying would be a considerably more “human” experience and all this griping would largely disappear.

But since every…

just post the metric(s) being followed and then everyone knows

I will say that the problem with government incentives is that it’s too tempting for manufacturers to eat them up. This is why, IMO, any incentives should be flexible. If a car looks like it is priced noticably higher than its class or if price hikes are a lot higher than inflation, then the incentives should be…

I thought E63 engines have a head bolt failure problem.    IIRC, you’d want to know if they had been replaced, which is a serious job.  

I want to believe, I love these things.  But unless you have your own shop and a ton of time, I don’t see it happening.  And it will never be economical, even in today’s craziness.  

If only there was something between both extremes, like, um, reasonable regulation.

The fact that you got the top model for that price is impressive. I liked these cars, but they seemed a bit large for a coupe. That said, you got a package that I’m totally jealous of and at that power level, any concerns are completely to be set aside for the steal this is. And I love yellow in such cars. Let the…

That will get you up about half a switchback. But that’s all you really wanted anyway.

A bit more pedestrian then some, but I bought a supposedly “universal” cross-bar mount off Amazon for my Mazda sedan. I got about 3/4ths of a road trip out of them, so success?

It’s a great job, but not my style—the white looks too sterile to me. I like these organic catastrophes that are the Peacemaker buses and a few others like them that have rich wood interiors like a boat builder would make.

Used one of these in my 88 MR2 for 5 years and then another several years in my Volvo V40.   I still have it and it probably still works, of course, cassette decks in cars are long gone unless you have a car that’s more than 15 - 20 years old. 

seems bothersome to me that in the year of our Lord 2022 that such a vehicle isn’t offered as at least a PHEV. I mean, you can get all the power you want, all the pricey too, and a modicum of environmental cred.    IMO, this should be the case for most vehicles these days.  BEV option or PHEV option.   At least give…

perhaps DHL?

two generations

A New Yorker article a few months back on electric trucks was much more balanced, IMO.

I was indeed waiting for some, um, crank, to say they didn’t want power windows. Yeah, I’ll stick with my power windows thank you. Where’s the person that wants to have their manual choke and have to adjust the points on their distributor? sheesh!

I think that’s something worth considering. 

Sadly, this is the biggest part of the problem. Carmakers aren’t helping the problem, but they aren’t the main problem. If the government wants us in EVs and PHEVs, and the SHOULD, they are going to have to eat some of the cost—more than they currently are.

trunk lids that are big enough to actually swallow a large box... plenty of cars with decent trunk space that you can’t get anything large into.