Just grabbed something yellow myself.

I looked at this quickly and thought “Death” was the band! (Because if you don’t know them, and Control Denied, frankly I think they are still incredibly progressive even today, 30 years later. Also, just some of the most incredible music you will hear if you are into that genera.) I got excited, but then I was wrong.

What is this deal with opening the hood?! You NEVER OPEN THE HOOD on a burning car for fear of feeding the oxygen to the fire. So yeah. Don’t. Ever.

Turns out the answer was... me.

Huh, imagine that...

“We need more front-wheel drive V8 luxo-barges lumbering around the streets.”

Having had my own (non engine) build quality problems with my 2013 Focus ST, I can tell you Ford isn’t going to do shit beside let their fairly horrible dealers further mess up the cars while corporate gives their customers the runaround. Back in 2013 (not sure if this has changed,) Ford didn’t even offer loaner cars…

Let’s just hope they stop their union busting. They won’t, though...

A year and two days ago (literally to the day,) I had leave my Abarth for a real, practical car, because baby. I bought a 2013 Avalon. Possibly not as cheap then as it would have been now, but already this scenario was in play. I got a “luxury car” (and bonus, without any pretentious name plate!) with only 36k on it,…

I actually have the opposite reaction, I get upset when I see manufactures that have designed complex wiper systems just to get that tiny and insignificant spot you never actually notice while in the act of driving.

Side the note, the “classic” Saab 900 not only has the best wiper and wind screen layout of all time…

You are not going to like my answer, but here it is. V6 Accord Coup.

It’s all about whether we recognize it in ourselves, how we deal with it, (aka, do we think it’s based on actual fact or unjustified and undeserved fear or conditioning in ourselves,) and if we keep it internal or make it external. At least that’s what I tell myself to feel better. I say people who bust out comments…

Again, no idea where you a drawing these conclusions from. However, I’m about as far from an “America First” nationalist as you can get. Honestly you baffle me. Blue flags, honestly.

I bought a used Avalon after trading in my Abarth. What does that mean?

As a former Abarth owner who only manged to put 9,983 mils on his car over three years before giving up an trading it in (and I’m to understand it needed a turbo at that point too,) I could have told you this was coming.

I really cannot follow your rather large leaps in logic, both about VW and about me. No, I do not think VW is really being upstanding or supportive of their workers who want to unionize. No, I don’t have preconceived notions, I have an opinion that has been built over the last year reading about this. I also don’t…

I really don’t see that I’m skewing the facts any more than you. I can tell you if you ask someone who works for the UAW they do not feel like VW has no part in preventing the union from coming in. Why are you so interested in “clearing VW’s name” so to speak?

I don’t know on what evidence makes you think VW is this shining, sparkling company being trodden on by the might state government of Tennessee. I don’t read that quote that way, nor view the situation that way.

You quoted the first paragraph, here is the third, “Since then [Dieselgate], a large portion of Volkswagen’s senior management has changed — and so has its approach to the union drive. Now, rather than cooperating with the U.A.W., Volkswagen is trying to block the union.”