There has never ( not since the founding era, at least ) been a president so openly hostile to his predecessor or so focused on undoing anything with their predecessor’s fingerprints on it. It’s bizarre. It doesn’t even matter what it is that’s being undone. Nothing is too small, too insignificant, too petty.

Selling naming rights for a tunnel doesn’t seem like the worst idea anyway. I’m sure someone’ll pay up to get the exposure. I don’t think the dead people they’re named after now would complain much either.

I’ve been saying for a while that Trump is not a president, but and anti-president, since erasing anything bearing his predecessor’s name is the only thing he’s actually driven to do.

The engineering philosophy of maximizing space ( AKA: packing shit together as tightly as possible so you can put in more stuff ) has done absolutely nothing to help owners who want to work on their cars themselves. That may be seen as a benefit by carmakers and their service centers though, since they make no money…

Whataboutism is a refuge for those without an actual argument.

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.