““That’s all I have for now,” he added. It’s unclear what the safety violations entailed.”

Unlikely to slip by the bearing manufacturers that should be chosen for connecting rod bearings.

There’s a lot of things that can’t be covered in development testing. There may be some way some police departments use the vehicles that leads to a failure. Or there’s a manufacturing problem plus the way some police departments use the vehicles. I could go on with the layers upon layers of things that could be, but…

Probably much the same thing, a lot of media spin on what amounts to be not much of anything.

The media spins things to keep the mother jones evil automaker theme going.

Many passenger vehicles made in the last 20 something years have a hidden vent somewhere in the quarter panel drop area near an exhaust pipe. These vents appear to be set up for outward flow but I’ve never investigated how they are supposed to work.

Airlines are a government protected and very regulated business. As such customer service isn’t much needed. That’s the whole point of getting in bed with the government, to not have to serve fickle customers. To make the customer choose between universal mediocrity or be stuck with a monopoly.

The captain only knows what the flight attendants tell him. They control the story. I think everyone knows what happens with contempt of flight attendant these days. So if we assume the subject of the story was acceptable in her behavior we’ve got yet another abuse of power story. The article fails to show that this…

I find that Mazdas just rust in strange ways. Each model/generation is a little different in how it rusts. But I’ve noticed how the early 3's rusted rather fast and visibly.

I’ve seen rusty volvos. Chicago road salt rusts all.

The question one has to ask is a 1979 Trans Am a $160K piece of art?

I wasn’t talking field testing, but field failures. Field failures come back from the customers.

The difference in properties can’t be too large, perhaps even on the lower ends of the grades they were mislabeled as otherwise testing of field failures would have revealed it unless there was a more obvious cause in each case that was addressed from a design perspective.

Heat treating and other processes along with…

A police chase where the stolen car was recovered more or less intact, that’s the story here.

Actually we effectively are corporate slaves. Accomplished from multiple angles. So long as people’s thoughts are broken up enough most will never realize it.

The idea is for people to never have or hear their own thoughts. Ever.

This car is far from the way Ford made it. That said I don’t see many 4 eye cars any longer in serviceable shape or otherwise so for that alone he’ll likely get his price unless there are a lot more roaming Florida.

That doesn’t mean a major repair that exceeds the car’s value isn’t required.

This entirely depends on the programming of the ECU. With a carb things will be different. The throttle will limit speed but with the vacuum of higher rpm more fuel could be pulled in than just at normal idle. Rich mixture, unburned fuel going out the tailpipe.