I highly doubt that. "Bosses", while concerned about quarterly numbers, do actually realize that the health of the company is at stake at longer time frames. If they truly acted like you describe, the company would cease to exist no time.

And it sounds like you actually got my point backwards. I was not saying that…

How is claiming that I provide value beyond my peers suddenly leap to me being perfect? Can you not comprehend that providing value over peers is PRECISELY how you keep a job in a competitive environment? I cant tell if you're being sarcastic or just plain stupid at this point.

And yeah, I have worked over a decade…

I am an engineer who designs the parts they build in the shop. I am a non-bargained employee in a right to work state. If there were masses of other people qualified to do my job willing to work for substantially less than I earn who provided equivalent value to the company, I would have been gone a long time ago, and…

Funny, you say I am "just plain wrong". But then, shockingly, you don't go on to say anything about how that is the case!

I'll wait for you to actually respond as to how works councils are just like the UAW. It might take you a while, because they absolutely aren't. Just ask the NLRB.

I have recently had to work in place of UAW workers to cover a work slowdown (repeated weird non-strike <24 hour strikes in addition to not working OT), while they sabotaged production equipment and threatened people repeatedly. I watched someone get tires slashed, personal offices ransacked, and verbal harassment for…

Ok well then you just neutralized your entire point.

If maximum profits are to be gleaned by the corporation and its shareholders from quality work/lower scrap, its in the company's BEST INTEREST to not to pay too little such that they can only employ "low quality" workers.

The reality is that the demands of unionized…

Unionized Workers =/= UAW for any foreign vehicle

Believe it or not, Matt, some people actually understand the difference between the UAW and "unions" in general.

The knee-jerk reaction to the word "union" is ridiculous

Except, guess what. You are wrong. It's still unskilled labor. I have first hand experience with the shop during a strike, and myself along with dozens of other engineers got a grand total of a week of training to perform the tasks on the shop floor. Guess what happened? Within 3 weeks our part quality and output…

No, modern unions EXTORT companies by demanding compensation and benefits far above market value for unskilled labor, then hold the company hostage with threats of strike and work stoppage/slowdown.

This agreement marks the first time the UAW has successfully unionized an auto plant in the American South, now a hotbed of car manufacturing for foreign-based and American brands. But many of those plants have been historically resistant to unionization, which makes them key to the UAW's survival as their own…

You do realize that the unions in Europe are nothing like the UAW, right?

If your mind is boggled, clearly you have never had to personally deal with union bullshit in your workplace.

WRX

T'was tongue-in-cheek, friend.

And he's always white.

"Best kept secret" is a bit of a misnomer, as they have been highly sought after since at least 2004 and fetching WELL above market value

It will probably still be slow. Lightweight, yes. But slow. (And yeah, I drove one and actually liked my GDA far better.)

Putting a turbo on one will not make it heavy. Just because a certain percentage of people appreciate the lightweight NA paradigm doesn't mean its the best incarnation of the car.

Want to sell more?…

1. no manual

Well this one is easy, after driving one in a preview event and then again as a loaner.

I was referring to how the comment stated "...modern Net (at the rear wheels)"