You’d be forgiven for not knowing that their business depends on truck sales, but that’s just how the industry works. Auto makers charge many times as much for trucks and SUVs as they do for small cars, but small cars aren’t that much cheaper to develop and build. The result is that profit margin on small cars…

If they sells fewer trucks they could become unprofitable (depending on sales lost). If they becomes unprofitable, they WILL fail. The livelihood of every auto employee (here and abroad) depend on selling profitable vehicles (trucks). It has little to do with executive pay.

Coal powered cars for the win!

This customer didn’t buy the most efficient vehicle this customer could have. This customer very rarely uses all of the seating capacity and cargo capacity of the vehicle that this customer bought, but this customer refuses to take responsibility for buying the wrong car. This customer presumably does not understand…

As a male motorcyclist I think this is really freakin cool. I don’t care what’s between your legs, if you’re on two wheels you’re alright. That said, saying this group is about equality and inclusivity is not quite accurate. I have no interest in hitting on you (happily married) and I’m not interested in pissing…

Sales increase means very little. What matters is volume and profit per unit. I’m guessing that Indian is already beyond Victory’s best years in both categories, and I see no reason for that to change.

My dad was an electrician and did some work on Prince’s home. He claims that one day he was working outside and Prince walked a “big motorcycle” out of his garage, and mounted it unsteadily. My dad called out to him to consider a smaller bike (Prince was a small man). Prince ignored him, started the bike, promptly…

So your choices are: Spend the money on a remote start kit (too expensive for the poors), put your kid in an ambient temperature car without a jacket on (unsafe), put your kid in a carseat with their jacket on (unsafe), don’t use a carseat (illegal), or do this (illegal). So if you’re too poor to afford a remote…

The CEO said “This decision...will improve the profitability of...our global motorcycle business, and will materially improve our competitive stance in the industry.” They’re doing this to focus on Indian to make sure it succeeds. Judging by what I see on the road, they’re already selling more Indians than Victory…

The goal of the terrorist organizations isn’t to delay tanks, it’s to kill the operators. An Abatis is a tactical tool used to delay approaching forces using minimal resources. An IED is less effective at slowing enemy forces, and it uses far more resources. The bad guys only use them because their goal isn’t to…

Nothing with the regs, but everything with the idea that people on the other side of the aisle don’t care about the environment. Yes, the dumbest voices are the loudest. But just because I disagree with the EPA’s methods doesn’t mean I disagree with its goals.

I assume you’re primarily interested in the firearm survival rate. This wall street journal article says that about 14% of shooting victims die (in 2010).

Really guys? This needs a NSFW tag.

I personally knew a guy that hit a very thick street sign NOT designed for shear. Resulted in a coma, years of therapy, and eventual death from complications. These shear bolts are a life saver.

VW needs to say yes or no as quickly as possible. Every day they delay this it will get more press, increasing awareness of what this guy is doing. If they end up buying it back it’s become a big “thing” so everyone is going to do it. If they don’t buy it back then all of the people who are aware of this are going…

It’s hard to find solid data, but I’ve seen numbers from 80-95% survival rate for firearm attacks, with similar rates (more towards 90%) for knives. In super close quarters like this story, knives are much harder to defend against (ask a hand-to-hand defense expert).

Stab wounds and gun shot wounds have pretty similar fatality rates...soooo...maybe?

I’ve got 5 dollars on the Pontiac.

Hell yeah! Thanks for the civil discussion.

I think that’s a reasonable argument that the design intent of a firearm is different from that of other dangerous products, but I don’t know that it necessarily means that firearms should be regulated differently. If two products have the same probability of harming someone when improperly used (not that I’m…