Out of that graph I think I’m most surprised to see that Lincoln actually moved 472 MKTs in April. That thing is one ugly duckling even in a field filled with ugly ducklings.

Serious question. If they’ve been modified to be illegal, by removal of emissions controls for instance, could they really sell them or are they required by EPA and state laws to destroy them?

A few years back we were flying through Singapore the same weekend as the Grand Prix and there were two AN-124s on the ground. Taxing past those planes in a little tiny A-320 was a really neat experience.

A sub-contractor of a sub-contractor violated labor laws and sounds like a shitty company. This does not equal Tesla violating visa or labor laws in any way and it seems like a real stretch to try to pin this on them instead of where it belongs with the sub of the sub.

Sounds like it was actually a sub of a sub who did this. Tying Tesla’s name to this at all is one heck of a stretch.

The rod bearings were replaced while they were in there because they were showing quite a bit of wear but that wasn’t the root of the problem. Before I bought the car the used car dealership I bought it from had the high pressure VANOS oil pump replaced at Ganley BMW in Cleveland. Ganley’s tech wasn’t the sharpest…

Engine rebuild 6 weeks into ownership with me putting less than 600 miles on the car. The financial lessons you learn when you buy a 96,000 mile E60 M5 with an unknown history for what you thought was a great bargain. Buy the damn warranty. And there is no such a thing as an E60 that is a great bargain.

Got one of those OFFICIAL NOTICE ones just this week. Letting me know that the factory warranty on my 60 day old Hyundai Genesis Coupe was about to expire. I actually got a good laugh about that one.

Man how I wish I had gotten a warranty on that M5. “$3400 for a one year warranty, that sounds insane.” “Here’s your bill for $13,000 for the engine rebuild” Yeah not so insane now.

You’d definitely want to cancel your subscription on those Finish PowerBall things. I’ve never experienced a product that was worse at doing what it is supposed to do than those things, my dishwasher gets things cleaner if you don’t put any soap in than it does with one of those in there. I ended up throwing out 90%…

You’d definitely want to cancel your subscription on those Finish PowerBall things. I’ve never experienced a product…

Eh, its oil money. They’ll just leave the discarded hulks for the next wind storm to bury and go buy another truck.

Here’s a thought for you. PA, emissions and safety inspections. OH, emissions for some of us but no safety. MI, nope none of that shit, in fact they don’t even bother to check if there is a VIN on the car to register it there. And yet anecdotally the proportion of death traps on the road seems much lower in Michigan…

This. I wish my E60 had been as cheap to own as an E39 would be. We paid $24k for ours, put over $16k into maintenance and repairs into it in 32 months of ownership and sold it for $13.5.

Looks like he put fewer scratches on the rim than the chain tire shop with their $5000 machine did with mine the last time I was silly enough to trust them.

I work for a company that is bidding on being a raw material supplier for the new giga-factory. If we could get 40% margin for that product from anyone we’d be over the moon. When you’re talking about a factory that is intended to scale to the point where it would use 120% of the entire world’s current output of…

3:54. Why yes I would love to stand on the outside of an off camber 4th gear turn to spectate. I’m sure this barb wire fence will protect me if something goes terribly wrong. Apparently Kiwi rally fans are more nuts than Norwegian ones.

Come now. You are a professional journalist\blogger. Work that alliteration a bit more.

Dang it blue, how could you let me down like that?

Her attorney did the right thing and the DA did her a favor. She 100% would have been convicted of the felony which she is clearly guilty of if she hadn’t pled it down. The MLive article includes additional details like her lying to the reporter that the road didn’t have a sidewalk on the south side of the road, which…

What’s the current M5 like on fuel economy in the real world? I know my now departed 2006 never topped 15MPG even on the highway and would return under 10 if I was having fun with it. EPA rating was 14/17 back then for what it is worth but real world I never came close to that. I’d think the turbo V8 would be a lot…