Speaking of Marchionne, one of the rumors around the Opel/PSA deal is that it is only part of a bigger deal brewing. The rumor goes that GM is selling off their EU operations because they are going to buy out FCA. Opel would be duplication of efforts if they had Fiat to cover that market. I don’t know that there is…

Good write up Raph. Reading through that it is easy to understand how GM ended up bankrupt. Of course, there are those that would ignore all this historical bad managerial inanity, and claim it’s all the union’s fault.

I absolutely think that Pence is involved as much as anyone. He may not be involved directly, but he likely knows about it and condones it. He would have to claim to be an oblivious idiot to not know what is going on.

Can confirm this happened at least 4 decades ago. You had to work pretty hard to get a malaise era Olds Cutlass to do a burnout.

I’d have been happier if he just refused to shake his hand entirely. Alternatively, I would be happy if Trudeau immediately applied hand sanitizer following the shake.

I’m seeing June as the peak level historically and it falls from there. True, June is mostly spring, but it is summer in my mind. The point is there could still be several months of high inflow and over-topping ahead.

Historical water level charts show that peak levels occur at Oroville in the summer months. Is there any other way to lower the water level? I assume they have everything open at this point. It could be a long term problem if the water flowing in isn’t expected to reduce anytime soon.

Mustangs used to have a red interior option. It is unofficially known at the “porno red” interior. I’m getting that vibe from this.

I will give them credit that the model shown here is at least level front to back. Most of these conversions seem to have the back jacked way up. With all the clearance in the wheel wells, maybe they should throw some bigger BFG A/Ts on it and go for the bro-dozer look.

It looks like some Mexicans will be paying for this one.

To me this is just a used car - a 30 year old used car in not-so-good condition. I give it no extra points for being a Porsche because is it a 944, and a non-turbo one at that. That said, I can find any number of better driving, more reliable, cheaper to maintain cars for this price.

Looks like he laid her pretty hard actually.

Gorsuch didn’t sound terribly enthusiastic about the Muslim ban based on some reports of interviews he had with Senators. The schadenfreude would be even better if he was seated and his first action was to side with the majority upholding the lower court ruling.

I honestly can’t think of anything that Trump would do that the GOP would consider impeachment over. He would have to do something that goes against GOP ideology for them to consider impeachment. Doing something illegal doesn’t both them as long as it is something they believe in. They have no hang up with unethical…

Off road racing is actually kind of popular in China:

Is this further acknowledgement that watching cars drive around in a circle, at the same speed, for 500 miles isn’t very interesting?

You’re never going to believe it when you see the ZR3.

QMMF (on the Jeep) = Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation. They are the Qatari national motorsport organization. Among other things, the are the organization that runs the Qatar Sealine Cross Country Rally, one of the events in the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup.

It is some kind of machine, isn’t it? Anyway, probably 99% of full-size SUV buyers don’t want to hear the engine anyway.

The right wing nut jobs must be enraged that Trump has all these golf outings planned instead of doing his job.....oh wait, no they won’t. They are full of shit. They only get mad when the black guy did that.