“It seems like GM wants to place almost all the blame for this on LG, and it also seems like LG is willing to accept that blame, or at least willing to pay for it. I’m not sure GM is allowed to get off that easy, though, after all GM was the one who chose LG as a supplier in the first place.”

GM actually does get off that easily.

Ya, this schtick is getting old.

Erik just puts “because capitalism” at the end of some sentence in every article he writes. I don’t think he’s even aware of it at this point, it’s like breathing.

“Local environmentalists say that the plant could pollute drinking water, which may or may not be true. (It is probably true.) That is the kind of thing that you might usually brush off, as corporations routinely steamroll environmentalists, because capitalism.”

One of my father-in-law’s best friends was a lead laser physicist on the SDI program. After the program was killed, he took his pew-pew chops and branched out. He was the one to figure out how to use lasers to clean the stealth coating on the F-117, how to use them to restore and preserve the color of the Huang…

The state in which a company is incorporated has absolutely no bearing on why Telsa is moving its HQ. Your opening sentence could have easily been “Tesla, which is a company that has 5 letters in its name...”, would have contributed the same non-information and would have had the same level of relevance to your…

early TSI engines are known to grenade if you don’t replace the tensioner with the revised part.

I just know far too many people who have been burned.

I can’t speak for Toyota facilities, but I have worked for two big players in aerospace. One with a very strong union (in fact it’s the Canadian UAW, Unifor) and one without. Both companies need the exact same talent set in their shops.

there was an escort vehicle, it’s the truck that almost hits the idiot who got out of his car to film the impact. 

The Neon, especially the first gens. Not only were they competitive compacts as commuter cars for the 90s, they were nice and light and had up to 150hp which was plenty at the time. You could even get an ACR package with a shorter final drive, sway bars, and some other goodies that made them autocross and track day…

The only WRXs I’ve had the chance to drive were a 2004 STI and a 2016 STI. They were definitely different machines. The ‘04 was like a mountain lion tearing your face off, and the 2016 was like a tabby clawing at your ankle from under the table.

truck engine (I know its different, but is it really?)

Enough that it would be an inconvenience and if you can’t see that it would be an inconvenience in these types of situations you’re just being obtuse.

Who else is waiting to see how long before this gets blamed on Trump for whatever crackpot reason the left wing nutters come up with?

It’s almost like there’s a disconnect between what industry insiders think people want and what people actually want, or at least what manufacturers believe they can shift.

It had competed in some events.

What suspension parts and labor cost $3,500 to repair? I'm having trouble picturing it.

Gonna need you to normalize those numbers to populations first there.