I don’t know how the US Army has traditionally done these things, but in the Marines, a Warrant Officer nominally had to start out as enlisted and climb the rank ladder into NCO (non-commissioned officer) ranks before he/she could be granted a warrant. The technical difference between a ‘warrant’ and a ‘commission’ is…

I think a lot of the naysayers are missing the point ... which is that nobody is saying that restarting production can happen overnight. Nobody with more intelligence than a rutabega would say that. But saying it takes time and money is not the same thing as saying it can’t be done. It can be done. It takes willpower,…

Yes yes yes ... the final assembly is only a minuscule part. I’m not talking about just “final assembly” ... I’m talking about every step of manufacture for every last component.

Personally I just wish people wouldn’t refer to snow/ice tires as “winter” tires. We have winter in California, but swapping out tires on a seasonal basis is an utter waste of time, effort and money unless you live and drive only in the mountains.

Not a good analogy. Automakers can totally replace a line and build out an entirely new car from clean sheet design in 3 years or less. You don’t think they can flip that beotch around and re-do an old car in even less time? I assure that blue prints are there, and the industrial know-how is there ... even if Jack’s…

I would honestly doubt that the entirety of the documentation (including videos) is anything nearly as shallow as you think.

Learning hand signals (left arm straight out the window for ‘turning left’, out the window & bent 90 degrees up for ‘turning right’ and 90 degrees down for ‘stopping’) was required in California when I first got my driver’s license back in the 80's. Do they still teach that stuff?

I had no idea they soldiered on until the 80's.

Nah, you’re first impression was correct. Any user name with an appending digit is not particularly respectable ... it usually just means that that someone else had already taken their desired label without the appending digit(s) so they rather unimaginatively just stuck one or more digits on the end so they could get…

The bike in the ad is an R1150R not an RT ... there’s a hundred pounds of fairing and about 5 thousand dollars difference between the two.

What I wanna know is, how did Mercedes not get sued to hell and back by Mazda? I’m pretty sure they (Mazda) still hold a trademark on GLC. Even when cars are long out of production, most automakers protect their old trademarks with an iron fist ... recall the hubbub about Ford threatening to sue Tesla if they named…

FSA’s are terrible. They are NOT investments, and unless you have a chronic illness (or are the parent of a chronically sick child), there’s no way in hell that an FSA is worth the hassle. An FSA is of benefit ONLY to people with regular and constant medical expenses and in possession of near-OCD level anal retentive…

What I don’t understand is why so many people continue to call the parking brake an “emergency brake”.

I feel that you have every right to be completely pissed off at the driver for being a bad driver and running into you ... unaware of his surroundings and not paying attention to what he’s doing, etc. etc., and I wholeheartedly agree that his behavior was dangerous in that incident. But not knowing him, I can’t argue…

Someone just re-named their dog “Dog,”

That day will come, I’m sure of it. And I’m also sure it won’t likely be within the next 20 years unless there is a major socio-political shakeup of epic proportions, along the lines of nuclear war or unbelievably radical ocean level rise. Don’t expect autopilot cars to be a common sight for about another 10 years,…

Just to be clear, it’s perfectly legal to drive into as many ANYthings you want as long as there’re no injuries or damage.

Wrong. Utterly and completely. These things deserve ALL the hate. They are an abomination not because you have to learn a new format, but because you have to look away from the road in order to use the fucking controls.

I’ve never seen an American car with that ‘3 blink’ feature ... if some offer it now, it’s only because they want to be like the Germans. This fad, to my knowledge, was started by BMW.

I can’t even begin to imagine the mental and physical issues with people who can’t handle normal turn signal controls. It only takes one finger.