No, amoral is the correct term. Capitalism doesn’t have morals. Only incentives.

No used BMW is actually worth more than $5... that you pay me to take it.

Buy this car, get clean salvage title. Get VIN plates off of it, crush it.

Steal another car, transfer VIN plates to stolen car, sell, profit.

That’s how this works, folks. That’s why there’s a market for these burned up hulks.

I’ve been working on reviving this. Snagged it for $500. Tune into the Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car series on MAV-TV in September to see it not finish DFL to much more expensive stuff.

I just went to the grocery store today. Fully stocked case of chicken wings... $2.49 a pound. Boneless breast was $1.99, bone-in breast $1.69, and thighs and legs were $0.79. Pretty much right in line with how it usually is here.

So at least in Kentucky, this glut isn’t showing up in the prices at the store.

And that’s it right there.

Farming is rapidly consolidating. It big business run by even bigger businesses. The little guy farmer is going extinct.

And what do corporations value? Time and accountability. When that tractor breaks, they don’t care who comes out to fix it as long as somebody’s on the hook and it’s fixed…

So, slightly degraded view of the pavement ahead. MASSIVE improvement in rearward visibility. What about everything else?

What about lateral? Article mentions 2 degree thinner A-pillars. And they’re placed further apart in relation to where the driver’s head is. How does that improve forward visibility in total? When…

The thing is, they don’t need to write any of that to the flash. Write it to a shared memory location, upload it using the OTA connection every few minutes and dump the buffer.

The only thing that should be going to that flash are stuff that needs to survive beyond a power outage on the car. That’s basically…

A friend of a friend works for a GM supplier. He let slip they’re already working on a heat exchanger package that can cool 800hp for that platform.

Fun rant, but you already know the answer:
They’re that way because it gets the job done. Doing it better would garner zero additional dollars in revenue. So there is no reason to do it better.

The de-rating should tell you something.

That manual can’t hack it. Hard pass.

That’s because Google Docs doesn’t turn a bulleted list into a data structure, it’s just a list with indents. No line has any relation to another.

If you want to organize the way you’re saying, you need to be doing it in Sheets.

The impression the article gives that this was a limited way to get a “GN” with bench seats isn’t accurate.

From the perspective of GM’s RPO system, the T-Type was the car. The Grand National was an appearance package option for the T-Type.

You could order the T-Type with any option available for the car, including…

True story: A Volvo 240 Wagon with the rear seats down (not removed, just flipped down) will swallow a 67x30x30 inch refrigerator, and the hatch will close with room to spare.

Remove the bottom seat cushion instead of flipping it up and you can get a 75" tall fridge in it. Maybe more.

We have a winner!

They tested the 1989 Turbo Trans Am with the T-5, and it was a second and a half slower in the quarter mile because of all the turbo lag between shifts.

“Understeers like a tugboat?”

Mine turns just fine:

I once had an E39 540i. The first time I changed the oil, I did it when the computer in the car told me to.

I then mailed that oil sample to Blackstone for analysis. The oil was completely shot to hell. From that point forward, I change oil at 1/2 the interval the onboard computer tries to use, because it’s wrong.

3000…

I’m not so sure. I have two, both over 400hp at the crank, it’s difficult to have fun with them on a road. They get way above the point where you’re arrested if pulled over really quickly, and a misstep at those speeds will almost certainly result in a collision with a stationary object off to the side of the road.

Some…

Countries that don't have the certification costs or the lazy fatass customers of the United States. If they thought they could sell enough copies in the U.S. to cover what it takes to bring it to market here, they would.

But they can't, so they won't. Cars with manual transmissions sell by the mere tens of thousands…