It comes from the Landau top which was inspired by the Landau type of carriage which was named after the place where they were first made...

It’s a question of if they are less polluting then the alternatives and those vehicles presently being used in those places and they are.

No they are not. They are early 2000s or late 1990s good at the very very worst.

I think there is absolutely no way that letting the cars run the rest of their useful lives as is exceeds the environmental cost of building replacements. It wasn’t that long ago that these cheating cars were considered perfectly acceptable in their emissions performance.

It’s just how government people and control freaks think. The same sort of people are outraged that “totaled” flood damaged cars from the USA end up in places like Africa. They think the cars should have been crushed because they were declared too broken. The same sort of people came up with cash for clunkers…

It’s not about the environment. It hasn’t been for a long time now.

These cars could do the environment and people in much of the world a lot of good. Fedgov could take all the revenue from the sales but it won’t even consider that because that’s not how the people running things think and the last thing they want is…

Very limited reuse with fairly new cars. There’s no way the remaining gasoline powered cars will be in need of that many parts before it becomes uneconomical to store the diesel buy backs. Most everything will be recycled for raw materials and the usual small percentage landfilled.

From government and those who use it to enrich themselves.
There is no majority rule, but tyranny of the majority is its own problem.

You can elect a boob or boobs.

Gridlock is the only thing that is saving us.

Even if the representatives actually represented anyone but themsleves why would it matter? Tyranny of a majority or tyranny of plurality, what difference does it make?

Indeed, it will never happen. The single party protects its rackets first and foremost. The government was designed to create, protect, and grow these rackets and is functioning as it was designed. Only collapse will change things because those in power are not going to give up their power or their income streams.

Those aren’t the cups you’re supposed to be looking at here.

For two grand I’d expect more than that unless those used engines go for way more than I expect them to.

Given the way it is written and that it cites the company that provided the engine, it’s most likely 100K on the swap. He would have no way of knowing how many miles were on the 3L before the company built it to be dropped into a contour. Maybe they did tell him, hard to say.

simulate the 1960s flat black hoods because it’s a cheap way of dealing with the front of the hood has become peppered with paint chips over the years?

Are you context impaired? Did you read what I was replying to? The person to whom I was replying wrote: “Drink more coffee at your next Libertarian group meetings, man.” That sort of thing is a two way street. If you and your friend are going to play that way, expect to be called statists. It’s just amazes me how…

Why is it that people like yourself get to decide what I am claiming and then always do it in a way you can knock down easy and demand I back up what you’ve assigned me? Go have the debate with yourself if that’s what you want to do.

The number of spaces the city permits to be constructed is restricted. The whole of…

Parking minimums are for the occupants and users of the new buildings. That’s to keep the additional automobiles out of the street parking. A parking minimum is pointless otherwise. The spaces that count towards the minimum are not likely made available to the public at large because it would defeat the point.

Markets get distorted from government intervention. Have you ever bothered to see why those wall street types are so rich? You and I would be super rich too if our downside risks were covered by someone else and we could borrow for free.