Just concentrating on the Bond franchise, there are numerous examples of auto product placement worse than the Mondeo in Casino Royale, such as the AMCs in Thailand in The Man With the Golden Gun. But the absolute worst has to be Die Another Day. Jinx’s T-Bird, Zao’s XKR, and Range Rovers everywhere.  Ford really…

“Democrat-push for mass transit results in bridge collapse.”

It was inspected in September 2021, but PennDOT gave it an overall condition rating of poor.

“Not a single turbo charged vehicle hits its stated fuel economy.”

2003 Mercury Marauder. Definitely the best iteration of the Panther platform, but the overall performance was “meh” for the attitude it tried to portray (a full second slower to 60 than the 1996 Impala SS).

Beetles and the early Japanese cars were derided as lightweight crapcans by the Detroit automakers, so these ads were clearly using weight to imply greater substance. The intended result was the consumer to determine a heavier car was a safer car.

While I agree on the general message that snow tires are good, this is a poor example to use. Clearly there is a front differential on that Chevy, and the tread pattern on the tires seems decent enough (definitely not M/Ts), so either the 4WD system was inoperable or, less likely, the driver did not know how to engage…

Why is this news? Did anyone actually think the Bronco was going to outsell the Wrangler in 2021? The Bronco will very well could never outsell the Wrangler on an annual basis.

It isn’t reported like that. Sales numbers for Silverado, Sierra, and Ram pickups include both light duty and heavy duty, same as Ford.

1. The Bronco and Bronco Sport are reported separately, they are not reported the same way as the F-Series trucks.

The county office of emergency management actually had to tweet out instructions how to use the manual garage release because they were getting so many 911 calls about people unable to get out of their garages.

Castellano 03 Trucking liquidated a few months after the crash. The owner started a new company, Volt Trucking.

Agreed. I can appreciate he did not intend for any of this to happen, and was ill-prepared to drive in the mountains, but a simple traffic ticket was not going to cut it. More like 15-20 years. He didn’t control his truck, driving almost twice the listed speed limit down Floyd Hill (45 mph for semis), and had to know…

There is widely available video taken from another car showing the semi pass the runaway ramp.  The driver of the car the video was taken from estimated his speed as at least 80 mph.  This ramp is approximately 4 miles west of where the crash happened.

DA starts process to reduce 110-year sentence for I-70 truck driver who killed 4

From his testimony, he stopped to check his brakes and call his boss after descending Berthoud Pass on US 40, about 30 miles west of where the crash happened. But there are other brake check pull off areas he passed, including one at the top of the final hill he descended.

Yes, there is.

There’s actually a brake check area at the Genesee Park exit.

Thank you for writing what I didn’t have the patience to write. People need to read your comment before sounding off. Unfortunately, likely few will bother.

He never should’ve upshifted to begin with.  There are numerous warning signs of the coming grades, advising truckers to stay geared down.