Obviously your results may vary but we had one of these at my shop and it literally fell apart at 100k miles and 4 years old. Doors off hinges, all kind of things breaking. Who knows

Tom Brokaw pretty much openly admitted this on one of the late night talk shows about a month ago. Said if stadium venues weren’t finished or were empty they wouldn’t show them on camera. His whole attitude was we show and pitch it so it looks bright and shiny.

Sports Illustrated just did their Olympics issue and made everything seem shiney and happy.

there are dozens of locations that can host the Olympics right now, and they are ignored because either a country wants the prestige of the games to overshadow their lousy human rights records or the cities refuse to spend billions when the facilities they already have are quite adequate.

I have a feeling NBC is not going to report on the problems very much. They want shiny, happy, uplifting stories.

yeah - I’m smelling a little sandbagging on the output of the R. Or, maybe the VW engineers came up with a device that lays on another couple pounds of boost when it detects a Focus RS in the lane next to it....

So you’re looking for a conservative political explanation, eh?

What happens when you want to move up in a union shop, but you/your talents don’t fit into the predefined pay structure they’ve negotiated? Or what happens when it starts bumping up against older tenured employees?

“Workers who would otherwise be at the whim of their employer..”

Inflation has gone up big time, although we don’t count things like food in that.

Mutually agreed upon by the union and the Senator that pushed the bill mandating the existence of said agreement, whether the employer wants it or not.

And if you are part of this union, and dont like its political moves, you have little option to opt out. Or in some cases, no option. Unless you like possible fines,…

No, thats an asinine comment.

What most cant afford is to pay some union steward $40 an hour to sit on their ass and report to union bosses about possible grievances of people going anywhere outside of their predetermined slot. All while retiring at age 65 and getting paid their salary and benefits still for another…

Leather seats are nice to look at, easy to clean but terrible to sleep on,

In reality, it is a bit of both. It is true a union and employer have distinct and powerful weapons at their disposal. What I do find more often than not is the unions pushing for higher wages to the point of spite for the financial feasibility of their members’ jobs. The UAW did this by sacrificing the 2 tier system…

I would speculate labor costs aren’t too terrible, but pension costs for GM are around $2000/vehicle. How much all the airbags, crumple zones, and other regulatory requirements are is a good question.

Red tape, described otherwise, is still red tape. An artificial inflationary costs added to the price of a product whose eradication would result in lower cots of doing business with no negative effects to the consumer.

The cost of a car (adjusted for inflation) has stayed relatively the same for the last 30 years. Wages of families near or below the median have not. Cars are and have always been a big purchase, but wages haven’t gone up enough. http://whnt.com/2016/04/25/the…

...being negotiated by a quasi-criminal enterprise with government backing and no real way to refuse them without risking your entire business.

“Negotiated” in the same manner as Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey in The Negotiator

Well for one the average inflation rate has held pretty steady since the 90's, while annual salaries have risen at no where near the same levels since the Regan days. Inflation may not be in the double digits like it was back then, but neither is YoY salary growth so we’re experiencing the effects of inflation at…