I’ve worked in a couple different automotive supply sectors, and like it or not overall the tide is still towards automation, but obviously subject to many factors. It’s not a question anymore of ‘Is a human better at this task?’ than it is ‘Is a human the economical choice?’, like your friend said. However the market …

TR was good, but Taft’s the wave-motion gun of trust-busting. He used the Sherman Act more aggressively.

Many years ago I did a brief stint as an unpaid intern at a Li-ion battery manufacturer that was seeking to break into the automotive market.

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More tasteful interior color options would be wonderful. Though I am amused somewhat by the idea of 70's style bordello red velour interiors in a new Escalade or something.

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They’re soon to experience a dearth of working-age people as bad or worse than Japan due to the One Child Policy, so I imagine this is to hedge against that.

That’s what a sawzall and a couple trips to the scrapyard solve.

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That’s what I was gonna say- when the familiar funny noises change suddenly, then stop.

...and I thought the ‘48 was peak sketch.

Your car becomes ‘old’ when getting in and turning the key is more and more frequently followed by asking ‘Oh, what fresh hell?’ rather than just... driving.

Problem is many of those cars returned to their elements years ago because nobody really gave a shit about them. Torch has posted about some fugitives from the law of averages like that pristine Tempo, but a lot of their novelty arise purely because they’re just not around anymore.

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I had a ‘95 and can concur. The rockers on the car are in the ad are in decent shape, and while the spare tire well rust is concerning I frankly would be more surprised if didn’t have rust there. Mileage is a little high for my taste but I don’t think the price is exceedingly CP.

I agree, I realized I can’t even recall the last time I saw a fourth gen Civic up here in the land of salt, nevermind a clean and relatively unmolested example. For the right person I’m sure this is or will soon be a cherry buy.

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The Versatrak AWD system would make it CP all day every day. It’s a German engineered system built with early 2000s GM ‘quality’. I own one and I’m telling you to stay away, nothing but headaches. Same thing goes for the Rendezvous with Versatrak, or so I’ve heard.

I’m not seeing a COTS gas turbine that would fit this application. It would require a clean sheet design and still introduces new design challenges and cost. The efficiency isn’t going to scale well either. See this study for more.