well shit. Was planning on buying an ecodiesel RAM in the next year or two...

This is EXACTLY my point. The wealthy, influential, big-money investor class DEMANDS that their investments be profitable, and on shorter and shorter time scales than they used to and to greater degrees than ever before (because no one wants to loose their hats they way they did 1929 and the late 80's/early 90's),…

I would argue that the investment class ruined public corporations, but the end result is the same.

This is true. But remember, it’s not profitable. Every marketeer and top level executive and lobbyist is trying to make sure that truth doesnt come out.

re read my post with your comprehension glasses on, pay isn’t the issue, it’s lack of demand. Even when there is its contract work, not a “career”.

That’s interesting, it’s also more than a year old... I went to talk to a master welder this summer about apprenticing and adding that skill set to my self-sufficiency plan and he said straigt up: “You realize you will never get a good paying job welding, right? I can’t pay my bills welding any more and am now a part…

but what if they want to learn to do other stuff too?

I so want to delve into my rant about the monetization of the stock market by influential mega-investors and the “responsibility to the shareholders [to make profit at all costs]” followed by the race to the bottom of cost and quality and the need to engineer obsolescence to perpetuate the myth of the Capitalist…

Look, I’m not gonna disagree, voting for Trump was a HORRIBLE CHOICE, he’s awful. But if you don’t see how disenfranchised and angry a solid 40% of this country feels, it’s because you live in a liberal major metropolitan area. This was NOT A SURPRISE if you were PAYING ATTENTION. Clinton was a “better choice”,…

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/watch-killer-mikes-six-part-interview-with-bernie-sanders-20151215

Fair enough, it would appear that is the case with the 335is. I’ll have to do some digging on other BMW products when the research bug bites again.

This is an interesting point, but without knowing how long the ECU will allow overboost and correlating it with intake pressure over the course of a dyno pull I don’t 100% buy it.

disclaimer: I have no documentation to back up my theory about the BMW, and I own and love a USA-spec Fiesta ST.

I’ll keep mentioning this: in Europe, advertising regulations require that the manufacturer state *SUSTAINED* maximum power output, most modern turbo-charged engines allow what is know as “overboost” for limited periods of time, sometimes just a few seconds. In this case boost builds to a level that, if sustained,…

Um, actually Bernie is pretty fuckin’ squeaky clean.

he totally looses any credibility at that point.

came here for this, not disappointed.

^--- what this guy said. Note though, that it didn’t just “make the list”, it won.

I despise Ferrari on principle (much like I despise Canon and Oracle for being a bag of dicks at a corporate level), but I don’t deny they make nifty things, this happens to be a VERY pretty nifty thing, and they should do more like this.

I run 15" wheels with Direzza ZII *s, EBC RedStuff and braided lines. its a hell of a bargain.