“The press from this story will put diesel cars into mainstream news coverage, if only for a short while and as we all know, with increased exposure comes increased curiosity, and with increased curiosity comes sales.”

It’s either shockingly misguided or prescient, and only time will tell. I see three options;

I’m pretty sure the last Die Hard movie where the guy from Justified was the villain disproves your “expert advice.”

A lot of factors determine whether or not increases would be deemed acceptable or not... existing conditions, nature of the receptor, qualities of the added noise, local ordinances. The vast majority of vehicular noise increases will generally be acceptable, as long as you aren’t building a subway line or bus line or…

For environmental impact reports/statements and negative declarations, mostly. I’ll model projected mobile-source noise impacts from new developments/roads/trasportation lines. For most smaller projects, results are negligible. But larger, noiser projects, or projects in low-noise neighborhoods, can have significant…

We could already do that, it’s my job lol. Sounds like a fancier version of TNM, which is the FHWA’s noise modeling program. TNM allows you to input fairly detailed vehicle parameters, pre-existing attenuation parameters, and potential mitigation measures to model noise predictions. I’ll definitely have to check out…

right... well what i meant was in response to your post that said that the definition of a timing chain was that it connected WP/alternator/blah blah. But that crap doesn’t matter.

Not a B5 - this is not based off an A4 platform - update to read “C5 generation”

You sure you mean a B5, not a C5 allroad? Not a bad choice as long as in the budget disclaimer you are not also claiming repair costs.

No loan is truly 0%. If they call it 0% then you’re paying the interest as part of the price of the vehicle. I’m not saying a 0% loan vehicle can’t be a wise decision, mind you. I’m just coming off a 0% financed vehicle and going into a 2.99% financed vehicle so I’m no stranger to financing. That said, if you pay cash…

That 1.12 is skidpad sustained lateral G. The 1.57 here is peak.

Nascar has a safety car doing 55MPH on all cautions no matter what. Today, the speed limits take place instantly when a caution comes out. No partial track caution, no driver discretion, no confusion. Nascar fixed this over 10 years ago as cars were nearly hit racing back to the caution.

Your AC doesn’t need a recharge, you have a leak. R134a doesn’t degrade, your AC is a closed system. If your AC isn’t as cold as it once was you have a leak or a component needs to be replaced. A recharge just pushes a problem down the road.

We’re too stuck in this mindset that we should fly to where ever we want round-trip for $100, travel with 50 billion pieces of luggage for free, get fed a 5 course gourmet meal in-flight, get access to entertainment and connectivity for free, etc.

And tickets are STILL dramatically cheaper in real terms than they were before the industry was deregulated.

“As someone who has flown more than 65k miles in the past 8 months, people who say “please don’t recline, I’m tall” are not frequent fliers and have no clue.”

Yep, this; fellow Delta Platinum here. The people who seem to complain most are casual travelers, because if you fly frequently, you already (and should) know the ins and outs of picking the right seat, plus at 65k miles (or more, since you said that was during eight months) per year, chances are you’re upgrading to…

As someone who flies “very often,” you also realize that in many instances people have little to no choice as to what seat they are in: delayed connection caused you to miss your original flight, now you got stuck in some back row seat as a standby, you had to take whatever was available on your last minute…

You seem like a bad person. You may not be, but you really seem awful.

All the facts here are accurate, but the ranting is a little babyish. If you consider yourself a guest of the club, there’s not much to get angry about. However, I can see that journalists may view their place differently than the mere ticket-buying rabble. That’s sometimes legitimate and other times self-entitled…