You clearly don’t understand how software is amortized over millions of vehicles. Add to that there is the fact that multi-processor micro’s are getting cheaper and more powerful very quickly.

Nonsense - you’re looking at it from the wrong perspective.

Really??

So, you are clueless that they are still building it, I take it?

Diesels cost a lot more than an gas engine, and hybrid drivetrains add a lot of expense as well. Then there is the cost differential for diesel (note this morning at a gas station I pass every day on the way to work, regular was $2.21/gallon and diesel was $2.89 gallon).

It was hot garbage in what way?

Nah, they only buy them at auctions with the bull bar and spotlights already installed.

It’s their biggest market - where do you think they should introduce the most models?

You are missing a key aspect of driving an ICE in the winter - winter gasoline blends are different than summer and results in a decrease in fuel economy.

So, what you’re saying basically is that if an automatic Miata is worth more than $14,000 or less than $14,000 it’s just not gonna be recalled.

Really? It sure appears that they have new products in the pipeline for CUV’s and updated their trucks too this year. You know, what people buy in large quantities these days?

You clearly have no idea what they are doing, amirite?

You’re digging yourself a deeper hole, as you clearly don’t understand the difference between radial and axial loading.

They used them in Slovenia, back in ‘42

Rochester Hills, Ann Arbor, Grand Blanc, Bloomfield Hills, Farmington Hills and Okemos are all in SE Michigan.

There were nothing but Link brake dyno’s at their lab in Detroit when I worked there.

I bet Roy is loving it! (The son of the founder and the one who built it up into a global powerhouse in the brake test market).

I kind of doubt you’ve designed brake dyno’s before if that’s what you believe.

I used to work for Link at their HQ in Plymouth, Michigan - they have the largest independent brake test lab in the world, where they test everything from large truck brakes to race car brakes (which ARE fun to watch when they glow cherry red!).

“ ... and Detroit isn’t exactly representative when it comes to non-Big 3 cars, generally.... “