I think, at this point, he needs to prove that he’s capable of anything other than lying, rage-tweeting and lying rage-tweeting. I don’t have high hopes.

I live in upstate NY and I see 20-30 of those Renegade things a day. I don’t get the appeal at all, but they sell like hot-cakes here.

I’m sure they’ll still be produced in some capacity domestically. I wonder where design and engineering will migrate to though, now that Opel is out of the loop?

I don’t know what future Buick production plans are, but the Opel>Buick pipeline should likely be at an end after this generation of models.

Acura was founded in 1986. Lexus and Infiniti were both founded in 1989. All three Japanese brands ( Honda, Toyota, Nissan ) and others ( Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Subaru and Isuzu ) were well established and successful in the US market by that time. WWII had nothing to do with it either.

http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-data/jeep/

Nowadays some European cars are the ones with trash reliability. It’s really weird how things change. When I was a kid, I never thought a Buick would be more reliable than a Mercedes.

Is it really a question worth asking whether or not Trump understands the nuances of literally anything? He’s a willfully ignorant, semi-literate moron. He knows nothing about anything pertaining to his job.

Also as an aside not even your weird ‘better hide the fact they’re Japanese because we’re racist’ brands like Infiniti or Acura.

...nothing from the American side of FCA would suit Europe

Opel and Vauxhall are owned by PSA ( Peugeot Citroen ) now, not an American brand. GM sold it’s European divisions last year.

Oktoberfest really packs on the calories.

I had one a few months ago where I repeatedly used plain instead of plane and I didn’t realize it until it was too late to fix it. Also, when I’m typing quickly, I sometimes mistype and put a ; instead of a ‘ on contractions. I usually catch that one before I hit ‘publish’ though.

Messi may well be the greatest to play the game, but if so, he’s on top in the way LeBron James is or Michael Jordan was. A clear number one, but not someone who breaks the metrics. And his lack of success at the international level is a mark against him as well, even if you personally dismiss it. It’s not just his…

It’s not the easiest object to observe. unlike space probes, it’s inert and isn’t communicating back to Earth. Couple that with being small and having a low albedo and this thing may not even be observable from Earth most of the time.

Over millions of years, the timescale in this study, the calculations aren’t all that accurate anymore. Knowing approximately where everything will be next year is one thing, but in 3 million years? We can only give a ballpark estimate.

If they could calculate it with exact precision, they would. They can’t, so they aren’t.

I don’t personally know what solutions are used, but certainly something is done to prevent contamination on the launchpad. It could be as simple as sealing the fairing after the payload is fitted ( it’s not like the spacecraft is just sitting around exposed to the elements until it’s loaded ). The people who do this…

There is something lost if Martian microbial life that could be contaminated or out-competed by terrestrial life. A big part of going to Mars for scientists is to try to find life there than is distinct from life on Earth.

Drumming up business for whom?