Your concept of the purpose of business is uhm, interesting. The purpose of business is to create customers. Without customers, there are no profits and no returns. You might want to go back and read some things by Peter Drucker. “The fact is,” Drucker wrote in his 1973 Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices,…

Answer: Yes!

Yes, both the Laser and Daytona were not very memorable, save one thing. I do not recall water cooling of the turbo bearing in a production passenger car before the turbo 2.2l. Maybe I am wrong, but whichever manufacturer brought it to the masses should get some credit. 

Put down the crack pipe folks. I know that unions can be a pain, but industry is not without its own set of skeletons in the closet. (Ford Pinto, Olds Diesel, Firestone 500, Takata, GM ignition locks, Bhopal, DDT, DuPont and the Teflon chemicals, and so on)
Have you forgotten the basic fact that the unions formed in…

 In Texas? When Hell freezes over!

1. Edict from wife to sell
2. “Might consider a trade for G37, M4/M6, 640i ,650i, 370z, Corvette, Boxster, 911, +/- cash and trade what you got? Looking for clean convertibles”
3. Vegas

Obviously a con. CRACK PIPE!

ManicDan,

You got that because you hit a nerve. If you are truly curious take a moment to read this TLDR.

Since the 1980's, the political climate in the US changed. Prior to that the mantra was basically:
1. Build a good product
2. Take care of the customer by providing good service
3. Take care of your employees
4. The…

No test drive? Definitely CP! Plus potential collision damage as others have mentioned.

I’m OK with the look. It will be interesting to see what content they add and drop. My 2015 has heated rear seats as did my 2011. The current models don’t. Then they went for a period without the pano roof and it is back. Their mix and match of options worldwide is interesting., For example, The images on their middle…

The answer is “Because FlexiTape!”

There is more to this than need. It is a link to your great grandmother. It is evidence that things can be built to last and when they don’t they, at least in the past, could be repaired. It is evidence the old craftsmen were gods. Now we buy a “pretty good” $60 stand at Aldi and it doesn’t last.
Having said that,…

Interesting. I am an old white guy. For some reason I trust Mr. Smollett than I do the Chicago Police.

Everyone knows BMWs are full of electrical gremlins. Have you ever seen the turn signals on a BMW work? Besides, BMW is a reverse acronym for Wanted a Mercedes Benz.

Our jobs were replaced with contractors under a “Managed Services Agreement”. Some of the contractors are H1Bs. However, since they work for the contracting company and not my former employer, I was not replaced by an H1B. I guess there just weren’t any domestic skilled workers available to fill the position.