They’ve changed a T intersection with unmarked turn areas into a three way intersection at odd approach angles and no turn lanes. The intersection wasn’t set up right in the first place but it’s now a new kind of wrong with its own problems.

Profiteering is part of the issue. Hand picking buyers for marketing purposes is an absurdity. What sort of idiot buys a Fusion because some “celebrity” has a Ford GT? Only a marketeer would have such thinking. The bigger picture is conditioning us to accept terms, to need to be chosen. If people mimic celebrities and…

Corporate control freaks want control. Once the premise is established this sort of contract, terms, etc if people accept it may move downstream until you have to sign some sort of agreement with terms on what you may or may not do with the car after you drive it off the lot even for a new base model Focus. They…

“as buyers were contractually obligated to keep the car for two years before selling it.” 

And now you have sunk to the level of a garden troll, as you try to save face you’ve dug your hole deeper and deeper and deeper. Tisk tisk.

BTW, you pick internet sites as ignorant as yourself. so full of errors.

Also, you might want to read the thread, I presented such cars as examples of average cars of the time.…

You don’t need to change the key lock to make a remote lock. That’s the easy way, but not the only way. We don’t even know if that building uses keys. It could use a prox card system. In which case it’s just a handle mechanism that would need to be altered. The prox card will always let the cleaning person in because…

Even in a big city there are countless places people haven’t gone in decades. Usually the interior of some structure, a tunnel, or something that got walled off. There are tiny parcels of land that get cut off and aren’t easy to get to that people just forget about too.

I notice all sorts of little things like a door knob that doesn’t match the others, or mechanical or electrical things that are odd. Just noticing little things be they done correctly or hacked in. I have found that statistically speaking nobody else does. I am sure I am not unique but it’s not something “normal”…

That’s how it works. Political control of fare structures and service levels combined with a little inflation and expensive deals for right of way and private transit collapses into government hands. Government then taxes people who don’t use transit. Hence the regional sales tax for it here in Illinois and the state…

You’re thinking like an architect who has to meet strict commercial building codes. If this was really done for the purposes we are to assume long after the building was constructed, then all that becomes irrelevant.

“You don’t just get to install a lock on your door in a commercial office building without people knowing about it.” 

The purpose of Chicago area transit is to provide government jobs with pensions not move people from the A to B they want when they want. People are to shape their lives around the transit system rather than the transit system serve their needs.

For about three decades now the Chicago way to get people use transit…

This system would have to be completely independent from the L to work the way they want but would be largely worthless because all the time savings would be consumed at transfer points to the L and any additional travel time on the L from downtown to one’s actual destination.

It’s the traditional FWD Mazda wheel hop on acceleration that is the bigger problem. Of course the king of torque steer is the 1989 Mazda MX-6 GT. Get on the gas so the turbo would kick in from a green signal while turning and it would pull the steering wheel from your grip. I don’t think anything modern will be like…

I’ve been driving Mazdas (in a large metro area) since I’ve been driving (always had one around in some form) and every single one has had an MT and this would be a big mark against this car as a replacement for my present Mazda. A car which I have been contemplating replacing, but unsure with what. As Mazda makes MTs…

“The car was a hand me down and my finances were limited. That was decades ago.”

“Not “drives”, “drove”. Past tense friend.”

See you’re still trying to save face there Nigel.

It takes quite a lot of hypocrisy for someone who drives around in old British cars to proclaim:

I don’t need an out. But thanks for projecting your intent on me. Pick up a book an look at the hp ratings of a 1970s Ford small block inline six after the change to SAE net. They average about 85hp.

You obviously don’t understand the difference between SAE net and SAE gross. Look it up. SAE gross is pretty irrelevant when comparing old to modern.