It’s been a while since I looked into it, but their biggest issues were the first gen CVT (which was in 2003) and then with the higher power 6 cylinder engines after that. Since the mid-2010s, I don’t think it has been as much of an issue though. 

The back and middle seats in most 3 row SUVs all fold flat and even with the trunk now. It is much higher than a minivan, but it’s pretty standard for everything to fold flat the last few years. Honda brought the removable middle seat to the new Pilot this year, but I think that’s the only one who does it.

Some factories have been operating on overtime the last few months to backlog inventory. I would assume they focused on those same high trim/high margin vehicles in order to make them the only ones available to the market.

A sign would be amazing. I fly about 10 times a year and the airports change a lot. Different airports have different requirements on shoes, belts, laptops, and stuff like that. Would make life easier if I can get ready while in line, like a drive through. 

Those scenes in Parks & Rec where they take public comments aren’t as crazy as real-life community meetings that take real public comments.

Another difference is that they can’t just focus on high margin vehicles during a strike the same way they could during covid, though.

According to google, this much more:

It was nice to see one that finally did. Usually, these lists are loaded with Toyotas, Hondas, and half tons out of the simple fact that the most of them exist.

It’s been a thought for a little while. Inventory finally has started to build up, but the manufactures saw just how much more profit they can make when the supply gets limited. The big difference between now and 2021 is that not every make would be supply limited. A strike and shortage of just the Big 3 makes for a…

The UAW doesn’t have the luxury of choosing when they strike. Contract expiration (as far as I know) is pretty much the only time they can strike and negotiate anything. How the broader economy impacts it or how their strike impacts local economies is mostly dumb luck. All of those factors can just as reasonably be…

Since this accounted for the total number of each model available, there just may not have been enough stollen relative to the total amount sold. Number 10 only took 33 thefts and number 3 only took 90. I think Kia was most popular in the online stuff too, so maybe that all helped? 

This seems like as good a time as any to shout out “How Religion Evolved And Why It Endures” by Robin Dunbar, the same guy who brought us Dunbar’s Number.

Check out “How Religion Evolved And Why It Endures” by Robin Dunbar (that’s the same Dunbar that coined Dunbar’s Number). It may not answer your question, but it gets you thinking about how our social nature gets us into weird shit like religion and how it gets continuously fractured.

Thunderbird. Have it make thunder sounds during acceleration too. 

and you probably wanted to share, but if you weren’t sharing already you may have been too shy. Alcohol didn’t make the person happy or share, they already were happy, they already wanted to share. Alcohol just helped the person drop their mask and/or insecurities.

I guess it has been a long time since anyone actually advertised a car as a comfy cruiser and instead just try to make any sedan look like race cars in commercials. The t-bird popped to me because my grandpa had a ‘73 and any stories about it were the stereotypical main street cruises and stuff like that.

The malaise era is ready for their time to shine.

Was that supposed to be a sporty car? I thought those were meant to be big, comfy cruisers. 

They had to maintain the GM tradition of putting out garbage, perfecting it, and then cutting it once perfected because everyone just remembered the garbage that came first. 

I think it’s wildly ignorant to believe that a substance that alters a person’s brain chemistry exclusively alters it to just make them more honest and absolutely doesn’t have any other effects on decision making. It’s also super ignorant to think that absolutely nothing else about a person’s psychological state or…