No, he certainly is still a public figure. I still however think his family has a right to privacy, as does everyone except perhaps people currently holding public office.

You're supposed to say "Not as much as you'd think."

Wow, so, how much did Dodge kick in for today's morning shift?

This sort of thing could make my coupe tenable for a lot longer!

You may not have done the most runs, but at least you did the longest one!

Escape route would have been "drive faster into the oncoming truck."

I'm *guessing* the cheap interior.

To me it just looks kinda boring.

I was highly tempted to do the same thing when someone threw a cigarette out the window at my feet, but thought better of it. Probably would've done it if I was as much as one day less mature. I have done that before to a guy who was walking in front of me and just blatantly dropped a wrapper, he was dumbfounded.

Why is this notable? Do the extra two speeds actually improve acceleration or fuel economy? Or is it just all around a better transmission, one that happens to have two speeds? Or something else?

Oh, I'm not saying that there's no precedent or legal basis, I'm just saying it's ludicrous! :)

This. I understand why we have bankruptcy court, and why they're not responsible for prior debts, but not responsible for previous products and criminal actions? That's ludicrous.

It's better to have ballast than to have driver weight, so there would still be an incentive for drivers to be very thin. Unless you specified the position of the ballast, but the cars would have to be designed around that.

oh please, terrible driving isn't limited to the affluent.

you see oversights like this literally constantly with headlines and reports. I theorize that they're overlooked because otherwise they wouldn't have a story.

I don't think the Tesla is about being green. It's about being just a genuinely appealing car, that is also a novelty. The "appeal" of the prius or other advanced hybrids is that they are green. With the Model S, they just made a car that people would really want, even if being "green" wasn't their top priority.

Well yes, you're certainly not going to get any good PR by suing your customer for $25,000, whether or not you're right.

*if you get caught.

Yeah, honestly, often when I am speeding it's not because I think I'll get there faster, but because I find the speed limit to be intolerably boring (which is a juvenile attitude, I don't deny!)

On this day in 1931, Knute Rockne, the legendary Notre Dame football coach and namesake of the Studebaker Rockne line of autos, is killed in a plane crash near Bazaar, Kansas, at the age of 43.