You have that backwards.  After a bunch of school children get killed by something we make it EASIER to get.

The trick has been to classify more people as management.  At the company I work for, all of engineering are considered management even though most of them have no direct reports and are just individual contributors.  Somehow, they’ve convinced both engineers and the union workers that this is somehow a good thing.

And oddly the more I’m like, “meh, I’d still much rather have this than other large luxury SUV offerings.”

He’s mad because Ford copied the red hooks from Jeep.

Seized brake calipers was a routine problem on the Subarus we had.  Low mileage even.  I suspect they didn’t like being kept outside.  We had a 2005 Legacy and a 2007 WRX that both had problems with that.

Super weird given there’s really very little rock crawling to be done.  We went on a 6500 mile road trip to do a little rock crawling.  Finding any unimproved roads near us is tricky.

A limited trim 4Runner is a surprisingly capable vehicle.

“No one buying a timberline is taking it to MOAB and running rock crawling trails.”

We really don’t like the red trim.  It usually doesn’t look good and just looks like poorly done aftermarket nonsense.

I can’t imagine these people having the wealth to cover this kind of damages. Some of these people will not ever recover. They’ll need life-long care and have life-long medical bills because of it. This is not a case of “this upset me and I deserve damages!” where proving damages can be difficult.  The damages here…

Presented by Nine Inch Nails?

Need to freeze to death in their homes to own the libs!

I thought it was considered battery, but maybe that’s different by location?

That’d be an entirely new part number. Just because it has similar functionality doesn’t mean anything. It would need to be qualified as if it were entirely new. All you’d maybe save on is that similar test vectors ought to still apply.

People out there don’t honestly think that vehicle manufacturers can just shove whatever chip they want into their ECUs do they?!?! When this article mentions that it takes time, money, talent, and facilities to test these things, it doesn’t emphasize it enough. It isn’t unusual for manufacturers to continue using…

We didn’t even finance our last car. Still took 4 separate visits over the course of a week and a half to get the car we had already picked out before calling the dealership. Seriously was just a “take our money we want that one” situation. Still took way too long and was way to big a pain in the ass.

And on the other side, selling your car to Carmax is great. They poke at your car a little, give you an estimate that’s good for a week, and offer a reasonable price without dealing with weirdos that want to trade a broken Playstation 2 for your car.

Minimum Viable Product has arrived in a major manufacturer’s “life decision” level products.  I’m horrified at the thought of seeing it creep further into the hardware world.  It was bad enough when disposable consumer electronics were all released with major hardware/software issues.  This isn’t new in the automotive…

The commercial with the animated front of this car had me screaming at the TV. BMW’s weird obsession with a weird caricature of the kidney grill is annoying, but the front of that Cadillac is a nightmare.

They just wanted to make it a bargaining point. Union wanted to get something because they’re being told to get vaccinated during a major public health crisis.