“Volkswagen took an ID.3 sedan ...”

Yes, that is a problem, and one I did have with my Jaguar XJ, which was made after they stopped with the dual tank system, so I could only fill from the wrong side.

Rear half, passenger side.

They moved the misplaced charging port... To another wrong location.

Fully doable with current fission technology, but perhaps not with current US legislation.

Surely there must be a way to circumvent the whole “cruel and unusual punishment”-ban for them?

The last time Germans had an idea this bad their country got bombed, invaded and partitioned for it.

Also, it wouldn’t just be restoring her to what she once was, it would be rebuilding to comply with current passenger ship safety regulations, rather than the “good luck out there, you’re gonna need it”-regulations that were in force when she left service in 1967.

I spoke with one ambulance driver who’d removed the badly mangled remains of a young lady after she’d intentionally hit a big rig without wearing her seat belt, it was the only time he’d seen both thighs separate fully from the torso. The trucker saw her coming and braked all he could, but she seemed to be…

Yup. The prime minister of Belgium went flying off a highway at great speed in an Audi A8, but thanks to a relatively soft deceleration (rolling multiple times over a great distance) he suffered only two broken ribs. Decelerate from the same speed in half a car length, for example by hitting a concrete pillar, and he…

Sounds like something the supreme court would strike down with extreme prejudice if someone brought a case?

If the answer isn’t Audi S8 you’re asking the wrong question.

Reminds me of the Nissan Serena that rolled over in an intersection right in front of me one day I was walking home from high school, decades ago.

This article really gave me mixed feelings:

Some of them were flat out uncomfortable to read. Does not bode well for their advertising value.

Anyone looking for proof that the world is an unfair place need look no further than to Sweden, where the forces that be decided to kill off the maker of road-legal fighter jets, yet keep alive the maker of 5-seater farm machinery.

But does it have diplomatic immunity?

Yes, I can imagine that the airline ticket rule made perfect sense in the home market, I just wish they would have listened to the local managers when they entered a foreign market where conditions are different.

Hopefully this means they’ll go back to long, low three-box sedans that look like they were designed in 1968.

A US giant took over a wildly profitable oilfield services company here a decade ago and managed to make it pretty much the only unprofitable business of its kind in the region, by forcing them to adopt rules and processes from the US HQ:
- Everyone had to get a landline. Previously, the only landlines were the ones…