Usually, CPU runaway is due to Javascript running amok (but, that’s also usually a bad script and/or the browsers JS engine).

re: “The Chinese are making interesting strides in microprocessors”

Well, Ford made airplanes so it’s a reasonable segue.

re: “Chinese car companies can make money in 1st world countries is by buying car companies that 1st world countries do trust, like Volvo.”

Note the tall landing gear.  Boeing couldn’t just add taller gear--it wouldn’t retract into the existing wings and fuselage--without redesigning the whole plane.  Hence the ‘MAX’ (short for maximum casualties?).

The early use, as a fuel for flame-fired lamps, might well have saved the sperm whale from extinction.

I believe at least some of the comments were by pilots who, by and large are above average people.

He’ll fix it bigly: Make sure the complex big heavy things never get off the ground, and the toxic chemicals can poison everybody in a 5,000 mile radius..

To be fair, I don’t think even monkeys would want to fly in the damn things.

re: “I agree that Jaguar (in particular) needs to do something different in order to stand out against the Germans and Lexus.”

re: “... why are Jeep products so expensive?...”

Confession: I can’t, for the life of me, figure out the difference between ‘Land Rover’ and ‘Range Rover.’  Please enlighten me.

As an owner of two old British cars I appreciate ‘weeping’ oil.  Lets me know I still have some oil left.

The Boeing ‘saga’ kinda breaks my heart. Boeing and Hewlett-Packard, where I worked for 13.5 years, were for decades held up as paragons of American engineering excellence. Both suffered the ‘Third (or Fourth) CEO’ decline: the founders build a magnificent company, the second CEO (see: Balmer, Steve) pretty much keeps…

Gas stations in Califoria took a big financial hit a decade or two ago when they were required to replace all their below-ground tanks due to groundwater contamination.  Not only would removing/replacing the pumps and concrete cost a fortune, but digging up and replacing the tanks had to cost big bucks, and the…

“Mustapoontang?”

“The Ford F-150 Is Seemingly Unbeatable”

“... note that all math is made up for illustration purposes”

Wonder if all the SUV owners who justify their fetish with “I need the extra visibility from the ride height*”—when they spend more time looking at the road than their phones anyway—realize that when every single driver has a ginormous SUV they’ll have no advantage?

What, no mention of older Cherokees? Any of the late-1990s up to the 2001 after which, I think, they went to a V6 is a good bet. The 4.0L HO engine is pretty much bulletproof except for tubular exhaust manifold cracking—most will have been replace by now (probably)—and I think in 2000 they went CoP/Distributor-less.