GM have, for more than 50 years, been the kings of cars that either contained wacky engineering decisions that sounded good on paper but sucked (5 cylinder trucks anyone?) or were pretty OK but sounded like crap from a marketing standpoint (torque filled pushrods in a sea of DOHCs).

Solid is a positive term.

Depends on the car. I know early GM halogen bulb cars had adjusters and I know my last truck, albeit with projectors, had adjustments. But I don’t believe they’re universal. 

Out here in Colorado, my biggest beef is with trucks (it’s almost always trucks) where the owner has swapped in LED bulbs in place of the factory halogens.

Downshift-Dave was suggesting that HD leverage their dealer network and parts supply chain to support another manufacturer’s electric cars. 

MINI Coopers look solid on steelies...

Yes. Most of the €100 examples won’t pass TÜV without repairs. Even repaired, there are emissions related reasons these are being made more difficult to register. Plus, they were crazy cheap to begin with, so there’s that.

Generally speaking, I’ve found that you’ll enjoy better service and whatnot by booking the best room at the good hotel than booking the worst room at the best hotel.

With “quartic” drive, no doubt. 

The Mustang one isn’t ghastly. 

Obviously some part of my math from this story from a few years ago is broken. Suffice to say, he bought a used Cruze diesel, drove a shit ton of miles, and it was good to him. 

I have a friend that ran for Congress in a geographically very large district out west. He bought a used Cruze diesel with 6,000 miles on it just before he announced, planning on visiting every town and city in the district multiple times during the campaign.

His acclaim just keeps going around and around. 

If you look at Saab in the Pre-GM era, their successes versus BMW were not strategic. The Venn diagram of Saab and Subaru shoppers in the late 70s, early 80s was, essentially, a circle. 

Certainly building cars exclusively in Scandinavia was a problem. GM eventually tackled this by building the 9-4x in Mexico. But, honestly, Saab’s problem under GM was exactly the same problem that’s now killed Holden and resulted in the sale of Opel to PSA, which is that GM has never managed to implement global…

To be fair, Holden’s death was foretold when the Australian auto market was fully opened to imports. They only ever existed in the late 20th century due to tariffs and Australian jingoism, despite the fact that the vehicles designed by Holden’s team were arguably superior to what Detroit was designing.

GM could have made Saab a successful brand akin to an upscale Subaru. Instead, they half-heartedly tried to make them a budget BMW competitor. You’re right that Saab needed GM when they bought in, but GM squandered an opportunity to make something viable.

That’s weird. I’ve literally never had any issue with GPS accuracy in Waze. Of course, I use it in iOS, so Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze all get exactly the same GPS data. It would seem odd that Google would purposely degrade the GPS signal available to a product they themselves own. 

I have never had an accuracy issue with Waze if I’m using an actual address. If you’re searching by destination name, the crowdsourced nature leaks through with some erroneously placed destinations.