and will not allow Western automakers to avoid restructuring to meet the challenge from lower cost Chinese manufacturers.

The other advantages China has are...

To answer the above question—by most accounts, Leopold was the aggressive homosexual; Loeb does not seem to have been sexual at all, but he had a passive personality and went along with Leopold’s desires. Also, Loeb had a fascination with committing the kind of petty crime described in this history: shoplifting,…

Nice price for the fond memory of Kelly giving a Bundy Beatdown to the girl who ripped off her Bundy Bounce.

Here you go:

Raising, which causes the wheels to go way cambered out at the top (so pulled in at the bottom like \/). Like a normal vehicle up on a lift.

Full of shit

Rail line isn’t used. Also I am pretty sure that that span of the rail line had already fallen in the water many years ago.

Rather than the sadly-obnoxious two-hour video with broken and annoying audio included here, here’s a link to the 30 seconds of footage that matter:

My dog squatted in the backyard, I posted it as Dogs Pooping in Paradise and the cybertruck was born.

Comparing having something out in the open that the city chose not to enforce (pretty much the only way people would know about it) for years until they suddenly altered course to a crime that the perpetrator know was illegal and actively hide so as not to be caught is a horrible analogy.

His son said “the future doesn’t look like the future” which is another way of saying the future doesn’t look like the terrible future car designs you see in movies set in the future. But cars weren’t made that way for good reasons... reasons completely lost on Elmo and his son. At least his son had the excuse of…

Tire technology sucked back then. This was probably rolling on 165mm wide tires. I’m not sure how well this stacks up against its contemporaries, but I bet that was expected performance.

I feel like this vehicle has been being released for over a decade now.

New York City gets loaded with guns from the South used in crimes. Chicago’s come from Indiana & Missouri. California’s come from the Nevada through Texas belt. The spectrum varies, but according to the study below, only 23% of New Jersey gun crimes are committed with a gun bought in state while that number balloons…

Too bad this is not feasible in most places, as running this facility in a place without Iceland’s geothermal power generation dramatically reduces it’s net carbon reduction.

I hired a petrol car from Hertz and the battery went flat. I couldn’t access the car as the key they provided had no mechanical piece to open the lock. Faulty equipment. Called their roadside assistance but he needed a full key to access the car. It got towed and damaged a tyre get onto the truck. I was charged for…

It’s lovely to see the cars breeching this time of year. So majestic.

“And all of the dealer networks had learned in the meantime that you don’t screw the customer if you want to stay in business.”