My A4 may have started its life without any offending odors, but it sure didn’t end its life that way after 100,000+ miles with me in the driver’s seat.

I doubt it’s had much impact, especially on the lower-end models, but not knowing if the things you’re buying on the car will be there in a month or two would make me more wary of buying a used Tesla.

It’s not sympathy for the person who flees. It’s weighing the crime against the risk. A guy with a gun who hijacks a bus, chase that fucker. A guy who was yelling in a Wal-Mart parking lot and apparently wasn’t even being detained and who apparently left a voluntary encounter that he was legally free to leave? Maybe…

I think there’s a fear that letting a huge company fail could have a domino effect that results in more companies go under (like letting Lehman collapse failed to stem the tide of investment bank failures and, if anything, exacerbated it) ultimately resulting in nobody learning any lesson in the end.

It’s so weird that GM spun off GMAC only to buy a different loan company a few years later.

I had a ‘93 Probe GT for a short time in the early ‘90s. I thought it was a pretty good car for the time period and price.

There was a news lady in Dallas named Midge Hill who named her son Bunker.

How much is their financial arm lowering payments for customers, dealers, and others?

I don’t. I almost got one once, but then I didn’t.

I didn’t even try to get one, they just gave it to me last time I renewed in Texas (which has been a couple of years ago). Apparently Texas has been issuing Real ID compliant DLs since late 2016, though you could still renew during that time without getting a ‘Real ID’ compliant DL. If you already had your certified…

Although just a few years later, the original Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo got by with only 190hp and was still theoretically cool.... at least I thought so at the time, though I was biased as I had an Eclipse Turbo.

It does look bad, but it appears to be an issue affecting a small enough number of people that it isn’t causing too much of a ruckus yet.

(And that’s US volume. That 100,000+ may be expected worldwide volume).

I don’t know.

Counterpoint - the early Denver Broncos helmet logo.

The original VW logo with the silhouette of Hitler flipping the bird was, I think we can all agree, used well past what should have been its retirement. I mean, to think that they used that logo until 1982.... It’s just shocking.

I’m 90% sure my doctor prescribed Celestiq for my seasonal depression.

Mondeo!

I mean, for that matter, one could get a lower-mileage 1999-2004 911 for less money.

I mean, I live very near where they make Stetsons so I appreciate the potential for increased local revenue, and I am very sure that the former employees of the British automotive manufacturing industry will very much appreciate how their redundancy payments will buy more cowboy hats than it would have before a trade…