Cruel, to ruin Popeye’s for you that way. Though it does beg the question: What was more dehydrating, the biscuit or the tears?

b) If you’re not doing anything wrong you don’t have anything to hide, right?

Old school: Elijah Bailey. Just a working class detective who partnered up with (what turned out to be) the most important robot in history, and taught him to be human. Far more compelling than Hari Seldon or Dr. Susan Calvin. The most human character Asimov ever created.

$20k in 2019 dollars. Would buy you a nice Renegade or Compass.

To be fair I’ve seen some dealers putting them on as dealer options new. So maybe your local dealer is one of those. Not that I can imagine a douchebag car dealer...

I believe it was a Jalopnik article where I once read the design brief for the Avalon was: “Old people need to buy cars too.”

I was surprised how excited I was to see Matthew Rhys again. My mancrush has been awakened.

Counterpoint:

I feel sorry for people who have nothing better to do than be snarky in internet comments. I feel sorry for myself.

If a woman likes animals in general and enjoys caring for a pet or pets, she’ll probably take great care of you too. If, however, she generally isn’t into pets except for *her* pet, then you’re probably going to be second fiddle to her in more than one area.

(This comment makes me feel like the old white hetero male…

“Take a deep breath and reassess.” ... yes, this is good advice.

Yes, I’m looking for net-net on NOx, the extra CO2 burn is just a bonus. The 40x was also an extreme number that didn’t apply to most of the recalled vehicles. In my case I have an EA288 which came from the factory with a urea system.
So: How much NOx per gallon was it putting out before, and how much now? Then…

So let’s say it’s only a 6% increase in fuel consumption instead of the ~12% I’ve seen and that is anecdotally reported (TDIClub, etc.) 6% increase over 12k mi is ~22gal/yr per car. Let’s suppose 10,000 EA288 TDIs were fixed. That means those 10,000 cars are using about 220,000 gallons more fuel per year than before…

I’m still curious if the ecological spend on the repairs AND the loss of ~5mpg per car is actually adding up to a net reduction in emissions. We are religious about recording mileage (fuelly.com is great) and saw our average fill up go from ~45mpg to ~40mpg. Best ever was 50mpg pre fix (with many many 47+ if we were…

Is there a special COTD category for “Pedantic Thread OTD”?

I cannot see the $10k difference between this and the Mahindra Roxor. In fact, if the prices were reversed it would make much more sense.

Chipotle serves delicious chorizo that no one orders: “Oh well, we tried”
Chipotle serves horrible queso that no on orders: “You. Will. Eat. This.”

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I get that the Siamese song won’t work in 2019, but I’m still looking forward to Si and Am.