When I started selling heavy trucks in 1988 the preferred engine among the five axle dump truck owners was a big bore Cummins. 14 liters if I remember correctly. It had an unprecedented 315 HP and 950 ft.lb. torque. Those owners loved it! They were the envy of the road. Now... Meh.

Something like ADS-B on aircraft perhaps?

I did a five year stint as a parts manager at a Porsche/Audi and Fiat dealership in the late ‘70s. The single cam engine was indeed stout. The main weakness was the timing belt. Recommended interval for replacement was 24,000 miles. It was best adhered to. At 24,001 miles it would break taking out the valves. The good…

The eco warriors must just love you.

Mine does.

Why no stats on how many lives were saved by Autopilot? I guess “412 airliners landed safely at O’Hare field today” is not a story.

Such an intelligent reply!

Or do shoddy work. Fortunately, all of my experiences at both the Mercedes and Infiniti dealers I use have been excellent. Well worth the extra money. Of course YMMV.

Sounds like envy to me.

Price controls? How has that worked wherever it was done?

Nothing new. I’m 2014 when I bought my Q50 the dealer had to go to Ohio to get a car that wasn’t Black, White or some shade of Grey. And I’m in Wisconsin.

Being charged and being prosecuted and punished are different things. Come back here in a year and let me know how it turned out.

It is better. No chemicals. Just malted barley, yeast and hops. By law.

I’m a little skeptical about her heritage. I’ve watched several of her videos including the one about the custom of men sitting down when they pee. I know several actual Germans and none of them ever heard of it. She has no accent whatsoever and if she is correcting pronunciations, why does she claim to be from…

Stop living in the past boomer. Are you aware of some of the new storage technologies coming down the pike?

Ford is number 2? How many hundreds of EVs did they sell?

You can turn that feature off you know. Or do you?

And no Tesla, no Lucid, no Rivian. Is this auto show fading into irrelevance?

A naturally aspirated V8 with a six speed manual. As God intended.

That makes an assumption that storage technology will never change. Pretty short sighted. Keep up with exciting new developments. Like salt and aluminum as the main elements. Both plentiful.