It was standard practice in Detroit for decades, as much as everywhere else. It was newsworthy when GM brought out the ‘68 A-bodies (Chevelle, Tempest, Cutlass, Skylark) on two wheelbases (112" for 2-doors including convertibles, 116" for 4-doors including wagons and for the El Camino) with Chrysler and Ford…
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It’s still a poor solution given that with the same engineering effort they could build the whole truck a foot lower if it wasn’t for the marketing-led “need” for massiveness.
On a manual, not really, but on modern cars it actually uses more gas - idle speed vs. deceleration fuel cutoff.
Most common condiments have a standard. It may not be the best but it’s the most familiar, not-otherwise-specified version. So “ketchup” means Heinz Ketchup, “mustard” means French’s Classic Yellow Mustard, “sriracha” means Huy Fong Sriracha with the rooster on the label and so on unless the recipe specifically calls…
One of the things Mercedes wanted to learn desperately from Chrysler was how to build a car to reach a market price. They always had bean counters, but it had been clear they were limited to adding up what it cost to build the car the engineers wanted and set the price. With Lexus tearing through their most profitable…
Remember the infamous study giving a Prius a higher lifecycle carbon figure than a Hummer? Among other things they severely underestimated the number of miles a Prius could rack up (which in taxi service can be interstellar) while overestimating the lifecycle mileage of the Hummer, basing it on a “hot-seated” fleet…
I was thinking it could bring a return to sit-down highway dining.
Only rental I ever had was one of the last USDM Fiestas, an improvement over the “Cruze or similar”. Even the PowerShift wasn’t bad for a weekend although I’d have preferred a no-creep setting for the heavy north NJ traffic. Cramped even for its’ size but I was traveling alone. When it came time to replace my own car…
It’s a solid possibility that this guy is Chester’s only cop, I’m surprised to learn it has its’ own police department. Most towns that size, especially outside Chittenden (Burlington) and Washington (Barre-Montpelier) counties contract with either the sheriffs’ or the state police for services. There are elected…
And when you put it in D *(fingers crossed)*
Once again, Elon makes me glad the natural-born citizen clause of Article II exists.
Payment in kind could be a win-win. Chrysler could write off the cars at MSRP rather than what they actually cost to build and the Cherokee Nation tribal government could put the money saved on fleet vehicles elsewhere.
Yeah, this is California we’re talking about. It would be different if it were Rhode Island (or really, any New England state) but there’s a lot of longhauling to do within CA itself.
Shame on the mess!
Golf Alltrack, you mean the Aldi Quattro?
I mean, they were insane enough to think a two-tiered contract is a reasonable offer after a year of record profits in the tightest labor market in living memory. So, yeah.
Introduced in 1996, last major facelift 2003.
Post-1970 BMW 2002 *sedan*. The Touring model should’ve replaced it completely, with no looking back and no non-hatchback 3-Series ever. Maybe that would’ve spared us generations of compact cars you can’t carry crap in because only the inherently flawed sedan configuration was ever offered in America.
I mean, if this is a prequel to Wilder’s Wonka it sort of works. If Wilder had worn a wide-lapeled brown polyester leisure suit and super-wide tie to meet the kids in 1971, it would make sense for Chalamet’s Wonka to wear something just as typically circa-1950 but...that’s not the direction he went.