Its not just America, however.  China developed their own standards most recently, and essentially modified EU standards just slightly enough that a unique test is needed, but not enough that the end result is different enough to matter.

Let’s face it, Reagan knew it wouldn’t work, but he was able to sell it everyone. Somehow he had the charisma to fool the whole country while bringing back the rise of the conservative party which we are seeing the “benefits” of now.

I have owned a 1998 Blazer ZR2, a 1999 Envoy (essentially a luxury Jimmy), a 2002 Blazer, and a few S10s. These things were decent for what they were at the time, but not great by today’s standards.

I had a 1988 S-10 and they were much flimsier than the newer ones.  It think was more perceived ruggedness.  These things would run like shit forever, but always run though.

Fuck Dex-Cool with a rusty dick...I had two Blazers with bad intake manifold gaskets at the same time, after replacing intake gaskets on my Grand Am.

I am guessing this guy had his head up his ass and face recognition let him buy the upgrade.

I have had this happen while I was running before.  I will be running listening to spotify and when I pull my phone out its on some website or something.

Checked out Wera tools as I had never heard of them.

I need to figure out how to get my screwdrivers re-shanked. I have not wrenched professionally in almost 20 years, so I don’t have a tool truck showing up anymore. My Snap-ons are starting to lose a little bit of the bite they once had.

I have not bought a new Craftsman tool since probably 2002.  I worked in a lab that had Husky tools that were supplied and I honestly felt they were better quality than current day Craftsman.

I wrenched professionally for a few years, and in that time I accumulated a lot of nice stuff. I started out with a Craftsman box full of Craftsman tools, because that’s all there was if you were a teenager in the 1990s. Once I got a taste of the tool trucks, I bought a lot of Matco and Snap-On stuff, but most of it…

I actually didn’t know NHTSA has an Office of Defects Investigation; now I want to work there.

I don’t really understand this viewpoint that people have that a truck has to be an old beater to be utilized as a truck. I mean, are you unable to stop an orange Home Depot cart in time to miss broadsiding your truck? Can you not hitch a trailer without approaching the trailer at ramming speed?  I have owned trucks…

Its ok, he clearly had a head injury at some point that caused this POV.

The greatest generation had a more competent federal government that actually managed the WW2 crisis with a federal response. There was a draft and mandated rationing of supplies necessary to supply the wartime effort. Plants were forced to stop producing consumer goods and required to build things to support the war.

Wow, I never thought a purpose built Alfa would have better driving dynamics than a Tesla or Camry...jesus this is not at all the point I was making.

I was specifically referring to this use case. A $90k Ferrari is going to be more unreliable and more costly to maintain than say a new Porsche 911, and will be slower, handle worse, and have less driver conveniences.

Not necessarily. He is selling it for the equivalent of $90k USD. Every other retired auto worker in Detroit has a Hemi Cuda or Mustang Shelby that costs that much. Doesn’t mean they have a fleet of them.

While your points are valid, it really depends on the use case. Old cars look great and have something special about them, but they are worse to drive then new cars, and are much less reliable.

I got to see them perform live for the Balance tour in the mid 90s. Glad I got to see him live; I still regret never seeing Linkin Park or Audioslave live.