Holding out for a Jeepster.

At last he’s discovered that other supranational corporations have operations in Mexico. But it still hasn’t occurred to him that two things that keep Mexicans in Mexico are jobs and remittances from their US relatives, and he continues to attack both. It’s time to start brushing up on Russian and maybe Mandarin,…

For at least 30 years conservatives have promoted the idea that less-expensive imported goods are a substitute for poverty programs, and now the “less expensive” part may go away. And regardless of whether the money is passing through the intermediary of the treasury or directly to vendors, higher prices to subsidize…

“I almost got shot while whilst clad in this raincoat mackintosh.”

The technical term for the cracked open but unpuffed kernels is “old maids”, although I’m guessing this is now considered sexist and verboten by correct-thinking citizens. They are so tasty that there are snack companies that sell them in packages. Wholy-unpopped kernels had too little internal moisture to expand and…

And now Ford canceled Mexican expansion and Mr. Trump will imminently take credit for it.

He always picks the “American” brands and Mexico to gripe about. Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and VW all build some of their US-market vehicles in Mexico. BMW seems to be planning to join them, and Mercedes and Hyundai could join them if they desired. All except Mazda (which sold theirs when the Ford relationship…

Yes, and Garmin updates every quarter like clockwork, and for the life of the device if you buy such. My Mazda only has free updates for the 3-yr comprehensive warranty period, and I think I’ve had fewer than 5 random updates in the past 2 years and 6 months. But all the maps systems (even Google isn’t as accurate as…

But telling you far in advance of when you need to make a turn can be part of the problem when there are multiple places to turn in close proximity, and my reading of the 2015 incident is that it might have been a factor there. You really have to watch the vehicle marker on the map and the marked route and equate it…

I don’t know, because the transmission specs say the positions are PRNDM, but here’s a thought: what happens if you put the lever in L and don’t use the shift button? As many have complained, selectable shift usually isn’t a truly manual mode; it will shift before redline so the transmission isn’t blown. So my…

It looks like it might be one of the substitute silicone bands that some players wear during practice and games. [pause] Confirmed.

Road diesel is the same petroleum fraction as heating oil, so in the parts of the country where oil heat is common part of the year is spent stockpiling one or the other since the periods of peak demand for each are offset by approximately 6 months. That can be allowed to even out a bit. As diesel usage drops in…

I don’t know about GM, but Ford uses L to denote Low, a transmission program that stays in the lowest gear in the transmission map compatible with current spreed and other sensor data. But Ford uses S for cars with selectable shift. The Cruze 1.4l 6T40 is in the transmission family co-designed with Ford.

OK, but wasn’t it already announced last May that GM was going to be supplying Lyft with a fleet of autonomous Bolts?

Besides the “deep pockets”, Toyota might be inclined to use whatever influence it has on the dealer to settle. Also, remember that Toyota has an assembly plant in Texas and now or soon its US headquarters, so they may be concerned about image there. OTOH, Texas is one of the states where an independent distributor is…

I’m sure he will not care even when told, because we’re number one and nobody tells US what to do. But it makes his Treasury secretary’s job of persuading China to address the trade imbalance without tit-for-tat retaliation more difficult. On a tangent, I wonder if anyone has told him that he is constitutionally…

I’m sure it will really confuse them that some parts of the globe that are warmer than they otherwise would be because of ocean circulation are likely to become colder as the global energy influx and ice sheet melting change the circulation patterns.

Ace isn’t a corporation, it’s a cooperative. So boycotting Ace-branded stores outside that particular area won’t do much except damage your local small business. Which will probably make the right wing billionaires who founded the big chains happy.

Well, it is the gateway to Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Mini wasn’t a marque until 1969; before that it was a model name for a number of BMC makes. This one appears to be an Austin by the hood badge, so it’s a Countryman. If it were a Morris, it would be a Traveller.