Excellent news!

What more do you want out of a machine?

20k is not a lot of units, and I’m seeing multiple commenters say that it’s not sustainable to keep it up, but I just want to ask- why not? What would prevent Ford from keeping this sucker in low-level production for another 5 years? If it’s still steadily selling, and sales are only declining very gradually, that’s…

Amen!

Plus, there’s a move to an “open layout” instead of the cubicles found in the old office, “collaborative work areas to reduce the scourge of closed-door office meetings,” and “bottomless cups of free gourmet coffee.”

More charging stations are a very good thing. Progress still has to be made in this regard. It seems almost controversial just to say that, since many EV enthusiasts have decided that we’re already at the point of perfection and if you want anything else, it’s all in your head.

3 is the eleventh commandment that God couldn’t fit on the stone tablets.

Exactly x2. The buck stops with management. They lay out the line, they ensure the parts availability and provide the tools the workers use, and they hire and train the workers. They set the quality standards and they tell their workers exactly how much to care about quality on a daily basis, on a continuum from “as…

It’s not clickbait when the hidden detail is actually interesting.

Shows how little I know- I haven’t bought any Subarus and didn’t realize that this was a systemic problem.

That Aveo steering wheel though.... it is hard to look at.

FYI for anyone who has gotten sick to death of auto-play videos but does not want to use an ad-blocker to punish the website:

The Marysville plant was the product of long-term management and mindset. It was by no means a foregone conclusion that foreign transplants in the United States would succeed; there was nothing inherently superior to Japanese or German-operated auto plants.

Enjoy your youth while you have it, and don’t make the same mistakes you later did.

I loved the idea of this as an upgrade from my Focus ST, but it seems to really fall down on the cost/fun equation. A pity.

Historicity is important inasmuch as the intentions of the filmmaker spring from the level of understanding they have tried to amass in telling a story. If the story is their own fantasy, they get complete control, but if it’s real people and real events, some more attention is needed. You can show a different idea or…

Nissan More-Guano

The UK is geographically part of Europe.

1995 Honda Civic EX coupe 5-speed (not my exact car pictured, but it was in that color). It was already quite an old car when I got it.

The IRS absolutely does not “let people off” for good faith mistakes- my point was that it’s likely that a lot of the people who filed the wrong claims were simply mistaken and not intentionally trying to defraud the government. Mind you, I don’t have data for that, as I explained.