Counterpoint: NOx-a-lago

From what I’m seeing in AutoTrader, you already get a sticker below MSRP on a “new” TDI and on toppa that, $5,000 cash back AND 0% interest financing for 72 months. Sound better?

“Personally, I feel like I was trained to lie - and wasn’t even paid very well for it.”

“They’re so good that 7,000 of the 11,000 new 2015 TDIs in dealer inventory release for sale in April were gone in just two months.”

Not trying to be an a-hole, but a 5k discount (if I read that correctly) on a 2 year old but zero mileage car doesn’t seem like a super deal. I would have thought they’d be a lot cheaper.

I picked up the Last Manual Passat TDI SEL in the entire northeast, Sticker was 32K, I paid under 20 Out the door

I know we are fighting a losing battle but do we need the -gate suffix at all when we use the word scandal? Cant we just say “the diesel scandal” or Dieselgate? Preferably the first option.

It’s still a VW, so...

Welcome to the red German wagon team! Here’s mine:

Even ardent fans swore off the brand following the Dieselgate scandal. 

TD Garden, Schmeedee Garden just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

I don’t know but they hate chalk as well. May be the powdered nature of the stuff that stops the ants.

Although cinnamon is volatile so it could be the smell, but I know they don’t cross powdered chalk either.

Nope, I dont count labor. Its a hobby, not a business. I own a business and I dont do anything for free, no matter how much I love it. My point wasn’t that I’m keeping a spreadsheet of profits and losses. I’m sure I’ve broken even or lost money on a few cars... but I do it to learn, relieve stress, drive interesting…

Why would they march when then can ride in a nice BMW?

Cinnamon + Ants = Please Explain?

Welp. There goes the “one day we’ll go to Hawaii” plan.

As a programmer, I would think you would have a better understanding of what AIs can do already. You will actually be one of the first to be replaced, because what you do does not interface very much with the physical world. In the very near future, software will be writing itself - just as Google Translate…

I’m not a truck driver so it will help me much.

Reducing transport cost will allow to lower the prices for products, there will be less traffic accidents. Whats not to like?

I have often wondered why trains are not automated. They run on fixed tracks with mostly controlled access. In many instances of train derailments, the cause was operator error. Specifically, an operator who was distracted or inattentive. I’d think that trains could be run remotely by crews in a central location, much…