Yeah, god forbid they actually act like responsible corporate “citizens” by paying their workers a decent wage, setting aside a little money for a rainy day, and not greedily lapping up huge tax cuts and spending all the money on stock buybacks to artificially inflate their value to keep Wall Street happy.

We have a culture and a market that punishes large corporations for cash-on-hand. Until we change the idea that long-term security and rainy day planning is “inefficient”, they will never operate by the same rules that people should operate by relative to personal finance. This crisis is exposing the worst of the…

I don’t wish bad things for a single worker or anyone dependent on them, but it’s hard to watch all these companies that work only for the next quarter’s profit, and don’t care one whit for the long term impacts of their behavior, panic at not making money for 2 weeks, and to not experience a little bit of…

I was not familiar with the GS.  Thank you, I will look into it!

The early XMs had some electrical gremlins. Later ones were much better, and when kept up will be reliable daily driver material. This does not mean they will be cheap to own, a Corolla it is not. They are 20-31 year old high end cars.

I daily’d a XM 4 cylinder, petrol stick for 6 months, including the dead of winter through single digit temperatures and snow / ice, and it never skipped a beat.

Why am I not surprised that you have a LNA Jonee? Next time you come to the museum, you’ll have to check out our Visa Club and Visa GTi.

I dig that Citroen as well. I thought it was an old Golf for a second, till they showed the whole front end.

Inherently, there is nothing wrong with stock buybacks. There is, however, something extremely wrong when spend 96!!!! percent of your cash on it over the past decade plus. Thats insane. They dont deserve a dime from the federal government. They did this to themselves

Someday somebody will have to explain to me why using corporate cash to buy stock at the peak of its value is “doing right by the shareholders.” It’s not a wise long-term move, even if it’s that particular company’s own stock.

This is the good take. They have made mucho profits from lowering the service. We shouldn’t reward that.

This is where a sane system would require some sort of statutory reserve plan in exchange for the bailout. 

we’ve already bailed them out with crushed flights, baggage fees, $12 dollar shitty snacks and ridiculous fares. Having flown Ryan in Europe I feel extremely cheated by our domestic airlines, it’s a cattle car both ways but at least on Ryan I’m paying steerage prices for steerage class, Bailouts my ass. 

I’m sure they didn’t wake up that morning and though “we are going to stage a sit in” they went to work and as the day progressed and saw that the company didn’t care about their well being, that’s when they probably said “enough”

It would seem that asking all of your workers to come into work during a global epidemic kind of defeats the point. If you were worried about the bottom line, you wouldn’t have asked them to come in at all.

Looks like 58802-60290-C0 is the part number.

I think you’re framing this irresponsibly. It’s more like he got the job, was like hey something’s up, talked to the correct authorities and got the company to fix it, and now that it’s obviously awkward he’s going to go get a new job. 

The R4 (and originally the R5) had this arrangement because the longitudinally mounted engine was behind the gearbox and so the linkage went over the engine to the box. It was more straightforward to put the lever in the dash.

I do. The wheel is fine. Everything else is super weird... In a good, Citroën, way : Super soft hydropneumatique suspension that will absorb every bump and make everyone seasick, classic “mushroom” brake pedal, super quick and devoid of any kind of feedback, heavy steering with terminal understeer, just like in a 2CV…

The hp system is actually quite reliable. My 1976 GS has been rebuilt in the last 20 months and the only thing that didn’t need any work was the hp, no leaks and no brake issues. The most annoying part are the oil leaks, I’ve never seen a car leaking as much as mine. But once you’ve taken the engine out and replaced th…