Holy crap, this is an unbelievable development. There are signs of intelligent life and perhaps some common sense inside VW of America. Wow. First they bring to market cars that might actually make sense (Alltrack - aimed at the Subie niche; new Tiguan - finally right-sized to compete with CR-V and RAV-4; now the…
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I’ll be honest I had serious doubts as well that they would even price the Atlas right let alone offer a huge warranty like that. I never thought they would go that far. I’m glad they are serious.
I have a story that is more from my parents perspective, but I was there.
This is very cool, but why in the world is it 90k dollars on the high side? If a clean Mini is 15k, and then a full tear down/restoration is another 20k in parts/labor, and you throw in 20k in custom leather and such, then put 5k on top for profit, well, there’s your 60k. For another 30k dollars I would expect some…
But cool Blu-ray playback didn’t help the PS3 any
Seriously, Jalops, this is it. The moment of truth. We need to buy this car.
30 years ago? I dunno... I’ve owned a total of 6 cars over the years, and of those, only 2 of them (including one of the ones I own today) has less than 200,000 miles on it. All of the cars I’ve owned with 200,000+ miles have been 30 years or older (a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, a 1973 Volvo 1800ES, a 1980 BMW 320i…
Hoping this would be brought up next. Scotland indeed has one that is quite impressive looking. It’s called Falkirk Wheel.
So I’m flat out in favor of mandatory vehicle safety inspections, but I also have to (begrudgingly) acknowledge the issues with that system.
Some states have little to no oversight with their inspection system/bureaus. Pennsylvania has a history of corruption in that regard — pay the right person the right money and…
I used to think that the state inspection was a complete racket (I’m sure it still is, depending on the shop). I moved from California (no inspection) to Baltimore/DC in ‘04. State inspections were the norm in the mid-atlantic and as a broke college kid it was often cost prohibitive to buy anything older. After moving…
My main concern with these inspections is that the potential for abuse is HUGE! We all have heard the line when getting tires.
I’m going to go on record with this. I didn’t mind the ‘original’ American incarnation, once they’d gotten rid of the stupid studio segments (which are shit in the UK version too by the way) I thought it was a great way to spend an hour.
To your point, I think there are efficiencies to be found in both budgets however, a 10% cut to military spending won’t move the needle nearly as much as a 1% cut to healthcare spending.
Using your numbers, a 10% cut to military spending saves $58.4 billion, while a 1% cut to healthcare saves $10 billion (as Social Security is about $800 billion).
You might have a math problem. Since the combined spending of Medicare, Medicaid, insurance subsidies, and CHIP are about $1T (I left out Social Security because it isn’t directly attributable to health care), compared to about $500B for the military, then 1% of healthcare spending would be about $10B, whereas 10% of…
I strongly support your interest in living in the country and becoming some sort of bumpkin/redneck food wizard. BUT, and this is an important but, you’re going to need to invest in some redneck tools of the trade. One of these should be a busted-ass POS pickup, that smells more like dog/fish/deer than anything…
We do not build carriers to fight naval battles against China and Russia. We build carriers to project air power anywhere in the world, at any time, whether we have accessible air bases with mission permission or not. That is what carriers have been used for since World War II and will continue to be used for.
Ah, percentages and percentage points. 5% is not 1% more than 4%. It is one “percentage point” more. In percent, 5% is actually 25% more than 4%. It’s Friday, who cares.
With all that drilling and finger probing, maybe they should call it the Tara Reid Valve, amiright!?