Most people who buy six figure cars want to be noticed, want the car to be special. This is why the exotic brands care more about their exclusivity and appearance than the technical and performance desires of gearheads.

Also such people can usually afford to park in garages in cities too. People of much lesser means…

It is unlikely for state governments to go through the hassle of determining which VW VINs are part of this and then denying registration. If they can figure out a way to shakedown VW for money they may threaten it, but other than that I just don’t see it happening.

Depends on what was damaged inside the wing and by how much compared to the remaining useful life in the plane. In other words, can’t tell from here. I would say it’s probably saveable but there most likely design details in play I have no idea about that could say otherwise.

The main emergency exit doors are over the wings requiring the passengers to go through the fire to get out or use the rear emergency doors where they would get in the way of fighting the fire and into the smoke. Then there is the time factor. Put the fire out early or risk the entire plane becoming engulfed while…

All the above would contribute something. There needs to be the right combination of fuel vapors, oxygen, and ignition source to get the fire going. My guess is that the speed of the aircraft simply prevented fuel vapor concentrations from getting high enough while also pulling away heat for ignition. Add altitude for…

DRLs are just plain useless. One of these stupid ideas that “works” when just a few cars have it but becomes visual noise when every car does. Highbeam DRLs are worse than useless, causing glare.

Traditional dash backlighting did nothing to stop people driving around with DRLs on at night. (old saturns with the high…

I’m not in the UK however a criminal government that is nearby has a lot more concern about being on the wrong end of a pitchfork or a torch than one far away. Ideally if government should exist it should be as small and local as possible. Regional governments like the EU were not built overnight but through decades…

The so called elite have never been a monolithic block. Some have been against the social engineering and utopia building while others have been indifferent. This is part of what has put the social engineers and such so very far behind schedule. I’ve not seen any indication that Borris Johnson belongs to that social…

The age groupings correspond well to the degree of conditioning through the school systems. This is how the social engineers work. They work through the schools to make the younger generations believe a little bit more of their plans for the world than the generation before.

All it takes to understand what the old…

Borris Johnson best I can tell is not in anyway connected to the so-called elite that have decided they should manage and engineer society. In fact he appears to be the opposite by most/all accounts I have run across. Furthermore while even the UK itself may be too large and centralized London is closer and the office…

They are racists because they have decided they don’t want to have their lives managed by and their productivity owned by far away and faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats. These tropes about racism and such are what the self proclaimed managers and engineers of society have the media put out when someone is…

Scrapping and replacing the cars is probably more harmful to the environment than just letting the cars run out their useful life.

“environmental remediation projects”= money to be spent on whatever. Just like the tobacco settlements.

Ok I’ll play too:

“It still boggles the mind how 16 other cars can be “legally” impounded that weren’t involved.”

Standard collective guilt of a group. It’s part of the general shift of this society away from the notion of the individual.

“It’s not how any of this works.”

Nobody cares because the laws were passed to use on those “bad people” over there. When it happens to regular “good people” the worst that happens is a human interest story on the news and the government fixes their “error” if the public outcry is enough. So long as the public relations game is played right and the…

The impounding was likely accomplished under a California law that was passed I think around ‘08. At the time I stated it was a law designed for abuse. I was called “paranoid” and the rest of course. The law would only be used on bad people, street racers and the like, never on good people. Quickly there were was one…

For 1973 the 5mph bumper was required on the front only. The early 70s designs persisted through most of the decade but were modified as the regulations came about. As a result many late 70s cars these days are simply modified to appear like their early 70s versions.

There are a few 70s designs that are hideous in…

Most cars of the 1970s were as good looking as any other era until the 1974 5mph bumper requirement for both ends came into effect. Then all the designs had these hideous bumpers put on them. 90+% of the time some big ugly chrome thing, big black rubber things, or both.

Today instead of fat bumpers we now have fat…