TLDR: We dealers are paying A LOT MORE money for poorly engineered vehicles that we make A LOT LESS money on. They got rid of cars our customers want and are charging way too much for cars our customers dont want, and it’s the dealers problem to retain these now pissed-off customers.

As a fellow Alltrack owner I say No Dice. The most sought after combo is the Great Fall Greens with Marrakesh Brown interior with a manual. A few of these have gone for good money on BaT and it seems the seller of this one is jumping on the bandwagon. Mine is a Deep Black Pearl with Marrakesh and I like it, but I miss…

OTOH, maybe this will bring some of their (excellent) older versions up for sale.

In a non continuously loaded scenario, diesel engines are terrible when they are made to not reek of exhaust stench. Which is to say, their emissions systems make them non useful in most scenarios - including off roading, town car, commuting, being a rental car, local contractor work van, are examples of non useful…

Fuck the dealers. But will they get so pissy that they refuse to service them? 

Exactly. The engine hump takes up half the passenger foot-well. The switch-gear is from GM’s “Fisher-Price” era (honestly the toys are made better). The door latches are really clunky. That being said though, the configuration was unique. Not quite a full-size van, but also not a minivan. Too bad the execution was so…

It is the best vehicle they build. It was designed in the heyday of FCA, so no Stellantis influence, cost-cutting, or cheaped out engineering. The key was that they didn’t screw with usability, the body design looks good, the interior is extremely functional and user friendly, they hold their value, and most…

Theses were stunningly shitty vans. I drove plenty. Craptacular quality control and noisy.

Actually there were shit, but they were priced like something nice.

Agreed there. Gun safety training day one (required for legal purchase of handgun here) is at a traffic stop state you have a weapon in the car.
This fine fella DID state that any attempts to get him to cooperate would lead to issues.

“So you have a fraudulent passport?” the officer asked. He asked Allan to get out…

Same as they did in Australia in the 1990s. Government buyout programme, repressive measures for the rest, and accepting the world isn’t perfect and there will always be a few remaining. 

In countries in which it’s harder to obtain a weapon legally, it is harder to obtain a weapon illegally. This is a real blind spot in a lot of Amerians’ reasoning about gun control laws, which amounts to a claim that “there would be the same number of murders whether or not murder is illegal, because people who murder…

“For this particular instance that probably wouldn’t matter at all. Being from the SC movement, he would have illegally acquired a firearm.”

We’d have to see the bodycam of the cop who backed off. The driver was armed. The cop who was grabbing him didn’t have complete control of him. Did he grab for the gun? The bodycam footage might show it. His gun ended up out of the holster and on the floor somehow. He wasn’t wearing it when they pulled him from the…

So the guy reaching for said gun in his holster and the cop stepping back for his own safety is wrong? Would you be here arguing the other point of the cop held the perp and got shot by him? Would you REALLY be here saying, “why didn’t the cop simply leave him and jump out the way instead of maintaining a hold and…

He lost his right to due process when he went for his gun. AND by his own definition as a “sovereign citizen “, I would say that he has no rights under our Constitution. 

This person was deprived of their right to due process.

This person was deprived of their right to due process.

I have to disagree, the driver threatened the officers, then reached for a firearm that after the event was on the floor on the passenger side. the only way that gun moves from his holster to the floor is if he was pulling it from the holster so this was 100% a case where the force was justified. He intended to shoot…

Excess violence?? You kidding me?? The guy tried to pull a gun on a bunch of police officers.