@rlj676-new job, same problems: No that is not the same as the jobs bank. This would be like Mcdonalds buying automatic burger flippers and then having to keep paying their old burger flippers.

@Bluegoose: Many of these same people against the automotive bailout were the same people against the financial bailout, so it says little about republicans.

So the UAW is upset after spending decades and millions of dollars supporting democrats, that Republicans are not being pro-union?

@mytdawg: This is true. The government, try as they might, could never stop "legitimate businesses", but legitimate businesses have had much more success in cleaning up Vegas.

Excellent, everybody know that what is holding back electrical vehicles is the ability to spin 360 degrees while moving forward. Ohh, I missed that these are "hyper efficient wheels".

@Deartháir and his eight little drained beers: Also, the diesels were given advantages of more power and essentially more fuel in order to promote teams to race them. The rules changes are not handicapping the diesels they are bringing them closer to what they make other people run.

@almssuperfan: I miss watching speed at 2am and catching Australian semi-truck racing. To be fair to speed though, I would rather have it than not have it.

@Wankelin_for_a_Rotary: In all fairness they did not outlaw rotaries specifically or because they gave an advantage. They changed to rules so that everyone was forced to run essentially F1 spec engines at the time, 3.5l V12s. They did this not because rotories had some advantage (they did not) they did this because…

@jodark: Are we still banning for referencing hp per french unit of volume? That is a solid rule for stopping the use of a meaningless measure.

@jodark: So it is not faster. I would like to see you drive in the snow with the semi-slicks the Fq400 was shod with. Didn't the fq400 require engine rebuilds every 15k miles or something insanely short like that?

@jodark: What Evo or WRX was faster than a z06? [en.wikipedia.org]

@jodark: Considering 99% of owners will not change the suspension it is pretty much a non-issue. Plus what can you adjust on a coil spring suspension that you can not on a leaf spring like the corvette? Sure changing spring rates changes the amount of roll resistance, but other than that what real difference is…

@mytdawg: First, I really do not think that the government will ever be able to do the thing required to turn around the company. Do you think they will be able to close throusands of dealers and kill brands? What about retooling factories to make them more flexable and require less labor? You think the UAW…

@HurtsSoGood: So in other words you are using Amtrak as an example of how to turn around a company? Another similar example would be British Leyland. Can you think of an example where this actually turned out well?

Andrew, I believe you misunderstood the article you referenced. It is not people applying to Honda F1 and not getting response, it is other race teams getting suddenly dumped with resumes by current Honda F1 employees.

@jodark: First, the trucks use multi leaf springs, the vette use mono-leaf springs. Second, the trucks have metal springs and the vette's are composite. Third, the vette uses transverse leaf springs, one leaf spring per axle attached to both wheels. Trucks use longitudinal leaf springs with one per wheel.

@jodark: I am pretty sure the leaf springs are more expensive than coil springs because of their specialty nature and low production numbers. I have never heard of cost being a positive of their use, other than that they will last 100 times longer than the metal coil springs.

@ROCKYLIFE: Hmmm, what company of the D3 is on the best track? What is that persons educational background?

@HurtsSoGood:

@Maxichamp: That brings back memories. I really miss that place from how easy it was to sneak in underage to random navy wrestlers wanting to trade t-shirts, it was kinda like Cheers.