*sighs, hits star*

And further to that end, while the insane unit cost is partially because government, it’s also legitimately the cost required to engineer and build something that will make it 30 years *minimum* with daily abuse and minimal maintenance.

I wonder if an EV-only version would have had a nearly flat front end. That would be awesome. 

Even cancelling the football team still feels like collateral damage for its own sake. If we are daydreaming justice, I’d rather just have everyone who knew about Sandusky and didn’t go to the police should get life in prison. That basically runs a trail from Paterno all the way up to the board at the school.

Nissan making a car with a 5 speed manual in 2025 is objectively hilarious. 

It sort of begs the question who buys it though. Is there some community that’s waiting for these to pop up after all this time because its well known Dodge dealers just hung onto them for ages? Do they then race to the dealer and start a bidding war?

You are misunderstanding my point: Even *with* fleet sales being the prototypical model for “buyer who just wants something cheap”, the portion of V8 sales are more than a “small minority”. And for how cheap they did make the V8 models, it’s integral to the whole line’s success.

Right, this whole idea kind of gets dismantled by posing the question after surviving the blast: Then what? The short answer is that unless you take a few hundred people to maintain a some kind of society, you won’t have anything worth coming back to.

My extremely unscientific research of checking how much of each powertrain are for sale on cars.com yielded about a 4:3 ratio of V6's to V8's. I wouldn’t really call that a “vast” majority. Plus, a lot of the V6's sales are fleets at rental co’s and police departments. On top of all of that, the older 5.7 Hemi could…

Don’t forget Boeing & McDonnel-Douglas!

The merger happened because the government said it had to. I don’t know what becomes of this Frankenstein corporation it creates, but the Japanese think whatever it is would be a lesser evil than letting Nissan die.

Do less of it.

Heh, I’m in a similar boat. My version of “Sim Racing” is Gran Turismo with a Logitech G29 bolted to a tray table, and a folding chair, but I need to get it the hell out of my closet and play with it some more next year. Part of me would really like to get the logitech DD wheel that came out acouple years ago, but I’d…

The problem with this approach by RB is *for the team*, it stinkin’ works. Overpromote these guys until one of them can stick. Odds are he will dominate. Keep that guy there and keep running through more kiddies in the 2nd seat until one of them dethrones him.

I acknowledge your sarcasm, but refuse to tolerate any deuce-and-a-half slander regardless. Do not take the name of the lord’s vehicle in vain.

I cannot for the life of me figure out the point of not normal transmissions pretending to be normal ones. If you are the sort of person that wants that raw driving experience, they feel like the most jarring sensation in the world. 

One of the most pensive thoughts I heard recently was that daytime cable news was the best thing that happened to America’s enemies. Social media is probably up there too. 

The whole point of these fuckers being so highly paid is that they won’t do dumbass shit like overcommit to make the most of a market blip and get crushed when it passes.  

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