Ha... I don’t know any boomers who would dare try to fix this themselves.  GenX and Millenials, OTOH, well, there are quite a few I know who would be able to reverse engineer the electronics pretty readily, draw up their own board in Eagle, and either order the PCB to match, or mill one themselves.

They videotaped a stunt with it pulling a million pounds. That doesn’t mean it will be rated for that in real life. You push a motor that hard and you’re likely going to damage it or the chassis. And in an EV, you’ll also be destroying your range.

Does it? I’ve seen a fair number of articles claiming its almost imperceptible when they shut down a cylinder

Trains make more sense in the US than you imagine.

There are ~21 flights per day between Chicago and St. Louis. 17 between Chicago and Cleveland. If you drew a radius of around 400 miles around a city - getting a sense of what cities could be reached within 4 hours on a high speed train (traditional high-speed train,…

That all sounds real good except it’s also totally unclear how they arrived at these numbers.

1st: Flat or slightly down might be optimistic.

The federal reserve is dumping cash at ridiculous rates into the financial markets in a desperate attempt to prop them up because they are failing.  It’s only a matter of time before the house of cards starts collapsing.

That’s an issue on the 737 MAX, but not on any of the other 737 lines.  To get the larger turbine on the MAX, Boeing moved the engines up and forward, affecting the center of gravity and flight characteristics.  The didn’t have to do that on the NG or earlier models.

China offered these very “concessions” in early 2018.

This is a terrible result - no better off, but cost us a fortune.

1st:

China offered this very deal well the better part of 2 years ago.  Standard Trump operating procedure meant that in search of a “better deal” he cost us a fortune and left us no better off.

5th:

While he talks about “massive investment” that cities “can’t afford” for public transportation, I think he actually misses the point.

Any investment decision should be taken in light of what the alternative choices are. Just because something is expensive doesn’t mean it isn’t a better option. It also may simply be…

They may take into account the glare, but they’re still blind to it.  They give the Corolla acceptable marks and say the glare never exceeded limits, which tells me their limits are obscenely high.

Cars which ranked better than their segment average in the Longest-Lasting Cars Study and had an average NHTSA crash test rating of 4.0 or higher were then ranked by their 5-year value retention.

I think you misspelled “tacky as hell”.

It would take someone with as little sense of taste as Donald Trump to buy something like this...

People are actually defending him in the youtube comments. Unreal.

Idiot claims to have had permits and the police on site during filming.  But he clearly didn’t have his courses closed off to other traffic, including cyclists (note he even plows into that intersection after the cyclist crosses) and other vehicles…

Guy is incredibly reckless in this video and deserves some serious fines.

Also, the idiot can’t estimate dimensions at all. 

There’s actually very little of future product plans that they have to divulge according to the law.  Even if there were a need (again, there isn’t), you can get around it by just “considering” the move and not actually pulling the final trigger, or announcing it, because plans weren’t firm.  And that’s really what we…

That 10 year warranty isn’t worth much of anything. It only covers parts that are extremely unlikely to fail in that timeframe. Hell, Chrysler used to offer a lifetime powertrain warranty. When they got rid of it, they admitted that it only cost them around $100 per vehicle.

Hell, one of our local Chevrolet dealers…

Dumbest thing Ford did was make a big public announcement. Kill off the Taurus, kill off the Fiesta. Publicly commit to the Fusion and Focus and see how many sales you keep. Combine Fusion/Taurus sales and they still would have been near 250,000. Combine Fiesta/Focus sales and they still would have been near 200,000.…

2nd: We’ve been through this before.

This has very little impact on cars. If you look at the models out there, you have to understand that virtually any car with 40%+ domestic content will already meet that $16 an hour target. Domestic content only counts US and Canadian production, and those workers are almost always…

Is that unusual?