I hear that all the time about gun owners, but do you actually consider 99.9% of American adults to be highly responsible people, in general? If not, that number of responsible owners is likely way smaller too. Guns didn’t become the leading cause of death amongst children, recently overtaking car crashes, because of…

While that all is certainly included in the details of the arguments about gun laws, I think the real reason is that a bunch of people are extremely adamant about being able to secretly own as many murder tools as they would like. Then we have a bunch of federal judges that believe such a thing constitutes a well-regul…

It was mostly a guess. The west coast has around half of BEV sales, so it was sales/customers that I was referring to as being a hot location. 

I initially thought that $120k sounded like too much, but the floor for them on Glass Door for them is $80k, which even then is pretty high for Bloomington. The engineers I went to school with, also in Central Illinois, avoided most local companies because they always tried to start us at like $40k, so the $55k+…

California is the hottest location for BEVs and they may have been able to poach Tesla talent? Tesla is moving their engineering base from Austin back to California because it turned out that not even Austin could appeal as well as they hoped.

They may end up with the same issue that central Illinois healthcare has. New grad nurses take the job because it’s good enough pay to get a few years of experience. Then they take that experience to Chicago, where they actually want to live.

only 15 states require the reporting of lost or stolen guns

We have a lot of people renting for construction site visits nationwide to all manner of locations, making it a pretty good blanket rule to have. Even the CEO is renting a Hyundai when he travels, so it’s actually practiced from the top down. Knowing our clients, I’d argue it could actually be bad practice routinely…

I get occasionally yelled at by the bean counters if I upgrade, since our corporate insurance has a max value. The major rental shortages a few years ago was pretty awesome though, since that meant I got approval to rent from a nearby Audi dealership. 

A bunch of hydraulic controlled Jeeps could get pretty wild (assuming any got running). 

Should make for a pretty nice rental. 

As soon as I got to the YouTube video at the bottom, that’s what I thought. They’re likely to make more money on the videos than any shop would just flipping it. Anyone with the money to do this level of work for themselves also has the money to just buy one, so being a YouTube project is possibly the best thing for…

Are mechanics running into the same age gap issue that most trades have been dealing with for a while now? A lot of 55+ with eyes on retirement and not a lot of people available to back fill? 

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I usually take that argument as telling people to buy a cheaper car and get winter tires for it instead of feeling like they have to spend the extra money on an AWD car.

Most local group use international standards as the base for their rules. It is much easier for a club or state athletics association to take something like these rules or the Olympic rules and then modify them as needed. A bunch of US states are already pushing laws to ban trans athletes, so this makes for an easy…

This looks like it would be a great resto-mod project. Not special enough to care about originality, but still looks good and has a solid body. That said, not sure about going almost $10k in on a malaise era GM car. 

I may have confused the Panda with the 500L that was sold here. 

The USA mostly has a Fiat Panda, we just call it a Jeep Renegade here. 

There’s a major multi-decade movie franchise built around Japanese tuner cars racing in the streets (and FAMILY).