What should they have done? Hired enough people to be able to handle that first month’s surge without any delay?

Then in month two, they’d be critically overstaffed, and would have to lay off almost all of the new hires.

Nobody in their right mind who’s qualified would take a job like that for only one month.

From what…

Absolutely nothing is happening in Canada.

The problem is with the EPA, which is American.

The CEAA has different emissions standards than the EPA and CARB, and it’s very possible that the TDI cars aren’t even in violation of CEAA emissions regulations.

The USA (and specifically California) has the strictest emissions…

Er, the settlement wasn’t approved until October 25th.

Preliminary approval was granted on July 26th, but that just meant the judge said “This looks like it will be a good plan, yes. Bring to me the details on the plan by October 18th, and I’ll review them and make my decision.”

Source: I’m a service adviser at a VW…

He’s not miming shifting gears.

He’s just shifting his grip. Stretching his fingers and “savoring” the feel of the wheel.

I have to admit that I’m completely guilty of doing that when I sit down and grasp the excellent feeling steering wheel of a sports car, and get that “ready to race” feeling in my head. It’s a…

I’ve driven a Fiat 500 on those same roads, and I have no trouble, all I have to do is downshift.

Not indefinitely, because they have to remove from the road or fix 85% of the TDI’s in question by the end of 2018. If they fail to hit that 85% mark, then they’ll be looking at something like a million dollar fine per car below that threshold.

That does sound fascinating.

It is, however, only something that could be pulled off with a tabletop pen and paper RPG, as the roleplaying would require the full freeform that can only be achieved with a DM that is able to adapt to any decision from the players.

I don’t imagine that that would port well to a computer…

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In clarification to what I meant: RPG’s never have “character X gets weapon A and you can never change that”. That is a trope of an action game, or a strategy game. RPG’s have always had the ability to choose what weapon your character is using, and that change affects your combat effectiveness. Even if the…

What RPG in history has ever had weapons not come into play? Where you don’t get to choose what weapon your character uses? Where character skill level is the only determining factor of combat effectiveness?

What RPG in history has ever had unlockable “combo moves” that themselves determine what weapon is being used,…

Skill determining damage and weapon being irrelevant is not an RPG, that’s an action game.

Combo determining damage and weapon, and skill determining what combo you can use is also an action game, not an RPG.

Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Batman Arkham X, and Ninja Gaiden are NOT role playing games.

Yeah, they used the D&D method of weapon skill.

Your skill is what determined your likelyhood to hit, while your damage was determined by the weapon only.

A lvl 1 could wield a Daedric Daikatana and do the exact same amount of damage as a lvl 100 with that same sword, but they had little chance of making contact.

The…

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2: 65 Mustang
3: Jag MkII
4: Jag E type.

That cartoonish feel is part of what makes overwatch great.

Just like TF2 before it, it helps you ID characters at a glance, and helps to give the “over the top” type of action a more appropriate venue.

The best thing they ever did when developing TF2 is switch to the cartoony style, and Blizzard knew it.

Drive a stick, and you’ll see that it doesn’t.

What’s happening is your car is shifting gears for you, or you’re driving a CVT and it’s shifting gear ratios. Or it’s just decoupling the torque converter.

It is physically impossible for a properly coupled single gear ratio to change RPM without changing vehicle speed.

I…

Found the source of confusion!

You drive an automatic, that’s why everybody was calling you ridiculous.

We are coming from Jalopnik, silly us.

Yes, a slushbox on Cruise will indeed vary RPM while maintaining the same speed, either because it disconnects the TC clutch, or it shifts the transmission, or it varies the…

In Europe, Mercedes is just another car company, that makes some models that are cheap and slow.

In America, we’re so hung up on “brand purity” that the idea that you can get a Mercedes that’s the equivalent to a stripped out Camry somehow means that the fully loaded E class is less special.

BMW can’t even make a sub 2500 lb MINI.

The only thing BMW can make that weighs less than 2000lbs is a motorcycle.

Can we pick a movie star from the 50's?

I’m going with Audie Murphy

False.

Only one of these cars will pass for something an upper class individual would actually drive.

The rest of the cars make you look like a middle or lower class individual desperately trying to pretend to have money.

The only real way to get a “cheap” car that makes you look rich is to get a classic.

Get a car that…