Billing rate != take home. You’ve got to pay staff, fringe, taxes, benefits, etc. etc. 125$s/hour would land you in the low 6 figure range normally.

Goes below fifth...I don't think I'll ever get used to 6+ gear manuals...I still find myself accidentally cruising the interstate occasionally in 5th even though I've been DDing a 6 speed for 7 years...5 forward gears was good enough

That was my assumption. If they put it together right they can have a selection of ratios for the gov tests and seamlessly move between them while having additional ratios in between for off emissions/consumption cycle driving.

Yeah, but that's where it gets all lawyery. The definition (2) in section 7750 of chapter 85 subchapter II part A defines a motor vehicle as (paraphrase) 'a self-propelled vehicle intended for use on streets or highways'. If they developed it for non-street or testing/development use per customer request they're 100%…

There are some shit wheel bearings out there. I've had no issues with Fords, Chevys, Volvos, Hondas, and (lots of) Mazdas going back to the 1980s. Many over 150k on the originals, a few replacements in the 90-150k range. However, the two VWs I've had straight up ate the things. I was lucky to get 60k on any single…

Been worked on in the past. Tesla bought the company that did this for Toyota IIRC:

Meh, the idea of the two per country rule was introduced after the Japanese Men’s team utterly dominated the 1972 games. They swept individual all-around (they also took 6 of the top 11 positions), P-bars, and high bar while taking 2 of 3 medals in all the other events but vault. The Soviets and East Germans pretty…

If he were that savvy he would have taken the 68k depriciated value the insurance company offered and either used some liquid assets to pay off the note or just rolled into a new loan. He would not have sued for more than the car was worth new.

It was a 2014 Panamera...sounds like his insurance agreed it was their bill and offered 68k which is pretty much in line with 2014 Panamera prices. Sucks to be him, but it ain’t their fault he’s upside down.

That was the 787 making headlines w/ the battery fires IIRC.

There’s a contingent of folks who will order 3-4 drinks on the first service. Flight attendants are usually pretty good about reading them and giving it to them if they’re going to be a sleepy drunk and a ‘not our policy, just one’ response if they look like they’re going to be talky or belligerent. Sometimes they…

I’d rather re-read about ‘dying car culture’ than re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read about the return of the RX7.

The former could happen someday, the latter will not.

No good place to put a low-clearance bar. There's a lot of legitimate truck traffic that goes up to that intersection you see immediately before the bridge and turn onto the side road that would get continuously fwacked.

Nah, this isn’t a skip barber course. These are on long roads with very slight grades where if you remain in top gear you end up ~10mph over your desired speed before the nadir. This isn’t dragging for the whole hill (would obviously downshift if the slope necessitated that) it’s applying the rears for a second or…

No more wear then it would be on the syncros or across all the pads, same amount of energy dissipated just to the rears in this case which wear slowly anyway on most cars.

The annoyance is that down shifting (or braking) cancels the cruise so when you’re going up and down these long hills (think very slight slope that…

I use my parking brake all the time at highways speeds when on cruise control with a slight downward grade. Other options are to shift to 4th or brake which are annoying for a 3-5 mph change over a mile or two. Granted I don’t let it ratchet and just barely drag it, but it's perfectly safe.

Nah, not cheating. No engines would meet emissions specs across the entire operating region. The requirements are set based on a series of cycles that ostensibly represent how cars are operated the vast vast majority of the time and it’s understood that some conditions will cause them to emit more/be less efficient.…

It's the latter with a wrinkle. It's the average transaction price with any manufacturer incentives backed out so those pickups with 10 grand on the hood ring in 10k higher than the person actually paid.

Well, I suppose it went like this. They pruned down the fish bone until they had a couple remaining things: "Cheating" and "Novel Tech". They looked all over for novel tech and couldn't find it so they assumed cheating. Since they weren't willing to go there they tossed anything related to VW in the bin since their…

This article is on repeat. Been published every year (more than once) across numerous outlets for at least the last five years. Every time the point you made gets brought up in the comments and is never addressed by the folks with the dataset. Maybe the median and the average fall right on top of each other, but it's…