So which cars that should have been recalled dating back to the early 2000s, weren’t recalled and are still on the road? With dealers having no idea about the issues, what to look out for in advance or how to fix it when a customer comes in with a camplaint. About, say, an electrical problem that repeatedly crops up…

Aren’t silencers/suppressors still banned for consumer use without an onerous permit process?

So pissed that this was going on a quarter mile from my house, and I couldn’t go due to an event my business was participating in. Hope you do the same location next year.

The Kardashev scale has a major flaw. It considers stellar energy to be the most powerful source of energy an advanced civilization might use. An advanced civilization might use as much energy as that produced by a galaxy, without touching the stellar energy at all. And might be really good at reusing that energy…

We didn’t think to really look for greenhouse climate effects until it was figured out that the reason Venus was so hot, was due to the greenhouse effect. Then, scientists said “I wonder if that’s happening here with all the CO2 we’ve been throwing in the atomosphere?”

I find it funny that the PT Cruiser was designated a light truck for fuel economy standards. For a really small car, it gets appalling fuel economy.

Those seats were fun to ride in when partying with your friends. If it wasn’t too cold, or too hot out, and it wasn’t raining.

He shouldn’t resign. And they shouldn’t let him resign. At least not until he cleans up the mess he created. Letting him out of the company now, would be going far too easy on him.

“Innocent until proven guilty” only applies to criminal law, and has never applied to regulatory law.

I’d put my money on “They’re investigating the new engines very thoroughly before releasing the cars for sale, because VW is provably untrustworthy.”

A working electric vehicle with a long range and a fold up solar charger.

Makes perfect sense to start with Australia in December. It’s summer there, when people think the most about installing/upgrading solar power systems.

I’ve always thought of San Andreas as California’s worst ticket trap, with a police density on a single road, of two officers per mile. Sad to just learn it had one redeaming quality. That will be a hard collection to reassemble.

I’m going to prepare for El Nino by adding more rainbarrels. The two we have were filled up just with the rain this week.

I’ve always wondered what a numbering system where pi = 3 or pi = 1, would look like.

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(slang, mainly British) a person of social distinction

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So my friends who bought an old one with over 100K on the clock (and now have over 200,000 miles), tell me.

Pickups drive like trucks. Not like semi-luxury cars. If it rains or is dusty, all your gear gets wet or dirty, unless you have a cover (which is ugly). A lot of people seem to be realizing this.

Where I live, it’s mostly used by families. And Outbacks that aren’t fully loaded are hard to find on dealer lots because they’re sold before they’re unloaded from the trucks.

In So Cal, our Outbacks are rust free but if it’s under $10K, it has 150,000 miles on it.