It’s been my experience that making employees comfortable improves productivity.

I voted NP on the premise that you could probably use some of the parts for various projects and scrap the rest for a few hundred. He also sounds flexible on the price and would probably take the first cash offer of $500.

I work in an office and frequently wear shorts and a t-shirt to work. This is actually pretty normal at my work and I am definitely not the worst dressed person.

I don’t understand why it matters what the factory workers wear. They don’t have direct contact with the customers so it makes no difference. Why force people to nicer clothing when it has no impact on how they perform?

Normally this would be an easy CP vote, but this one seems so well taken care of that I had to vote NP. I would definitely never buy it, but the price seems reasonable.

I’ve driven in conditions worse than that on a few occasions. The worst is when I slow down to as slow as 20km/h (one time when I could barely see past the end of my hood) and people are still barreling along at 80km/hr.

I guess he didn’t see him Cumming.

With 300hp, it’s kind of hard to justify getting the S. I’m sure it comes with a bunch of other options, but $12400 of them? I guess with Porsche option pricing that’s probably a bargain.

Damn that is ugly.

I actually don’t lump Mazda in with other Japanese manufacturers when it comes to reliability. Some of them are reliable (e.g. Miata) and others are not (e.g. RX7/8)

It’s been my experience that major engine issues hardly ever occur with 90s Japanese vehicles. And almost everyone I know that has owned one has had a manual transmission and I haven’t heard of any issues other than needing a new clutch every so often.

I actually agree with you. Toyotas are cheaper and have similar reliability. Nissans are even cheaper and also reliable.

Yeah, most of the people I know that have owned them had manual transmissions for those cars.

The thing is, you don’t get much more reliable - in the sense that the car will never die - than a 90's Honda. I have owned and know many people that owned Japanese vehicles from the mid 90s and I still think, even with many miles, that they are more reliable than most vehicles today. Sure, you may get a faulty sensor…

Personally, I would stay far away from it. But it is priced appropriately. Not exactly a nice price, since you’re going to have to spend a bit of money to fix it up, but it isn’t bad.

I love that book. Definitely my favourite living author.

Yeah, when was the last time Russian invaded and annexed one of it’s neighbors?

I have no idea how much this is worth, but I would never buy a used car from a dealership. They ALWAYs overcharge. The odd time a price seems reasonable, when I go to look at it there is some sort of major issue. Used car dealers have to make money so they will never be as cheap as a private sale. CP.

I see some of the earliest adopters of self-driving vehicles being companies looking to replace people that drive for a living (e.g. taxis, delivery drivers).

I never said that the US didn’t make the same mistakes. I’m not an American. The US definitely starts wars, at least in part, to boost approval ratings. And they spend far too much on their military.