They usually believe "art is of the devil" and an abomination of worldliness threatening to drag the children down the low road to destruction. Yes I'm being serious, grew up in very conservative faith with moderate parents who laughed at the more nuts members of the faithful.

When the US started sliding backwards on infrastructure maintenance, extreme income inequality, police violence, the asset/equity/wealth gap, urban poverty, backwards development patterns, expensive/non-function public transit, the list goes on. You're right it's not Third World. But people are scared, annoyed, and…

I'm trying to think of where else groups of pseudo-militarized people walk around intimidating and or protecting the community... MEXICO! Cartels kill and vigilantes kill-back. Ugh. America why?

Bought a 356 at 25. Humble-brag of the week. Well done, sir. Well done.

Wrong tack, cars will remain repairable. But they will no longer make sense to repair, financially speaking. For instance here is a problem we recently had. The ABS computer died on our BMW R1200 GS. Replacement? ~$2,000. Buuut there is one shop in Idaho who tears them apart and replaces the broken logic board for…

What would a $26k Fiesta look like if that money was spent on disk brakes, and then the rest on NVH and interior... hmm...

THE SACRILEGE.

Not enough power. The last oil-heads made enough power but are weak on torque. However, the new wasser-boxer would be a cool "lightweight" swap.

Riiiight! This was the first thought I had when BMW announce a new turbo 2.0l.

Yes the later years, this car included were heavier. But I fail to see how a ~2000lb car is heavy. Throw in the manual steering and the only thing better would be a 911.

As someone who owned an 02 for 3 years. No. This is too far. Swap anything BMW in there, maybe even some american crate motor and we are cool. But an AUDI engine?!?! iy yi yi...

"Some sites do the toilet paper test, Clarkson prefers the cheese test, at Jalopnik we do the east-river body parts test."

Seriously, you expect poor workers to have 400-1000 dollars for an IUD. the $9 a month thing was me trying to illustrate that the world isn't as simple as you make it sound.

IUDs aren't $9 a month. Do your research, pills don't work for everyone.

These things ad up. Bit by bit. Some action better than no action. Also, reputation. Automakers live and die by their reputation and being fined certainly has more effect than a reprimand. It is a very clear communication to the buying public of wrongdoing.

"No Malibu! How many times to I have to tell you, setting yourself on fire won't make you one of the cool kids."

hahahahaha! PERFECT.

*initial estimates are in*

That's it, I'm starting my own company. We will make a brown, diesel-hybrid, 2wd, 3-seat bench, pickup for $10,000, and it will have a manual, and it will only have three wheels(for tax purposes of course), and this was a joke, in case that wasn't properly telegraphed.

Alien planet mega-criminal face.