yet, that might be excusable on a 83 ford escort base model. This is a hugely expensive car. wrap the stupid thing with some cow hide or fake suede depending on customer taste.

My fleet includes a 2000 BMW 528i 5MT with 174K miles, a 2010 Range Rover Supercharged with 147K miles, and a 2013 Audi A8L 4.0T with 125K miles. On all three, the steering wheels are flawless.

Im sure the manufacturer tested different materials intensively to find the best and most cost effective material to use for that application.

I am continuously impressed by the mental gymnastics that Tesla fans will do in order to justify the bad quality control on their vehicles. 

Having driven through Paris in a Peugeot 206 that at times seemed way to big, this might be a perfect option.

Yep. Ol’ Phyllis was a contented woman because she was out at the lectern every night explaining how every woman except her needed to remain in the home.

If we look around us at the women we most admire, we will often see that they give and give and give of themselves, that they seem to have boundless time, energy, and service to give. They are not private persons, but are surrendered and available to care for others.

Not when you cut your teeth at the Phyllis Schlafly School of Conservative Womanhood: “Subjugation for thee, but not for me!”

I don’t understand how women like her reconcile the teachings that women are supposed to be subservient to men with their careers and powerful positions. Like, shouldn’t your husbands be the ones on SCOTUS and in Congress if you really believe all this bullshit?

Pregnancy teaches a woman that others have a claim on her very person.

ZTE being better quality than Samsung, now that’s a knee-slapper.

Yeah same here despite my best efforts to minimize purchases and divest in unnecessary stuff there's a lot that has accumulated.  

Post schooling I have managed to only move 2.5 times in 35+ years. Grandparent’s house to city apartment, city apartment to what is now my summer home. Then I bought a winter home as well, which is my primary residence. But I bought it furnished, so when I “moved” all I took was what would fit in the trunk of an M235i…

Be mindful though of how things accumulate when you don’t have to move all of your stuff periodically. I’ve been in my current home for 15 years, and despite regular donations to charitable resale shops, I’m shocked sometimes by just how much stuff we have. It’s especially bad if you have outbuildings, like sheds and…

Of the few Samsung phones I have owned they have been pretty bullet proof for me.

The incentive was definitely there, but it was on profits. They could do it. The vehicles would have been more more expensive to produce, and they might not have been very price competitive. Or, why not lie and say you meet the regulations and take a huge pay day?

Too bad their dealers are absolute garbage.

Chinese EVs are not sold outside China. So for the majority of the world's population, the Chinese EV market is irrelevant. Chinese EVs may as well be Martian for all the good they do the rest of the world.

I know a few people who have had engines put into their Hyundai’s due to oil starvation that would argue otherwise.

“Globally, if you exclude China” Ok, so if we exclude one of the worlds largest EV markets then Kia/Hyundai are closing in on Tesla, got it. I’m not a Tesla defender but that’s a pretty large exclusion to make right off the bat.