When your one year old Subie is burning a quart of oil every 270 miles, that reasoning doesn’t work, nor does it when the same faulty cheapout $200 power window regulator design (VW) is used for years without improving the 2cent plastic part that fails over and over. Nor Takata switching to unstable ammonium nitrate…

Engineers. If a single one of you ever had to wrench on what you built after said construct has been through the ringer, I think you’d all change your tune about whether or not it was designed properly or intelligently

Instead of starting our negotiations by promising our base an outcome that we know is impractical and that we won’t be able to deliver on, resulting in supporters that feel betrayed and disillusioned after our biggest victory in a generation (see: 2010), we should we start our negotiations with what we actually intend…

yes, and welcome to the internet.

Seems like you haven’t been there lately.

Yep, would be 60 oil changes, 5-6 coolant flushes, 7-10 trans fluid changes, few air filter replacements, fuel filter replacements, plugs and wires a few times, etc. Plus fuel costs which would be 30-45k depending on mileage and fuel price.

For example if the Town Car got 25 mpg, after 300,000 at $2.50/gallon, that’s $30,000 right there in gasoline alone.

If they’re concerned about their aging rider base, they really screwed up on not offering a Harley Davidson mobility scooter.

Counterpoint; here’s what H-D’s future looks like.

The Porsche Carrera GT. Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s an engineering masterpiece and it is beloved by people who want their car to beat them up rather than the other way round. I also concede it makes one of the most bewitching sounds I’ve ever heard. But I just can’t bring myself to like it. Its shape is as sinuous…

Jeep. Wrangler.

Pfff. Alex Roy is that dick who endangered hundreds of people bombing across the country on public roads.

That one tool is also directly correlated to grossly outsize violent death statistics in the places where it is widely available, but by all means let’s keep pretending the two are the same. These guys.

One thing has an intrinsic use other than to kill people. Kind of not the same

NOPE, it’s been molested. CP. I had a 4th gen Firebird and it was enough of a cluster fuck to do basic work on, and they stuffed all that turbo shit in it? No thanks even for free.

I’m exactly Cline’s age and played with 90% of the toys/games he vomited up in that tome, and I was overcome with self-loathing around the book’s 4th list of entertainment detritus. It was like 459 pointless Family Guy references, but without laughs. Or exactly like 459 pointless Family Guy references.

Here you go. To find this study, I took on the arduous task of clicking through to the only outside story linked in this one. It was indcredibly diffiult and you’re very lucky I was able to click through one whole hyperlink to bring you this info

He said he didn’t want a cheap feeøing interior , that rules both of them out.

It’s almost as if he doesn’t want us to pay attention elsewhere.

So far there isn’t even a workable THEORY about how we’d do #1. Nor is there much of a business case for it; companies don’t want AI with a will or reasoning ability, they just want something to do menial rote tasks like driving.