“The weight is a sign of reliability”

And this is why aircraft have ‘airframe hours’ after which they should be retired. Or enter into the David Tracy fleet.

You don’t need to be a Mercedes mechanic- just know something about wrenching. Worst case scenario it’s time for an LS swap. 

Idk there, a solid 1cm? (Dimensions hard to judge) crack in a welded part that is on visible non-redundant drivetrain parts doesn’t seem like “invisible and unpredictable” until it breaks. It seems more like the kind of thing that bridge inspectors note growing fatigue cracks on for 20 years before anyone actually…

I’m not going to sit here and pretend you should have done better... but this is why places like Germany have real safety inspections, not the bad jokes that count for most areas here stateside.

One again, this was totally unpredictable, because it likely was a result of fatigue.

A HHR may be shitty, but dooming someone to have to buy a car in this market sucks.

“...so I don’t have to rust out any of my beloved rust-free Jeeps.”

 Goddamnit.

This type of failure is why I finally lost the old-car-as-a-daily-driver argument.

Fatigue is the direct cause of the failure but I would argue not the root cause. A properly designed steel part will not fatigue. The applied stresses should be below its endurance limit which means it can handle them indefinitely (aluminum does not have this property). The root cause here is more likely corrosion, or…

First, hopefully everyone is ok.

Keep your ten-dollar words, science boy. “Old as shit” is the problem here. ;-)

It’s hard to convert from metric to imperial time.

Don’t be silly, ocean-going vessels run on cash.

You keep making the same dumb joke because of a lack of understanding - there are more reasons for not buying an EV than simply range. 

750 miles is about two months of daily use for the average American.

it’s fine. i know a guy that developed a car that runs 1,000 miles on salt water.  it’ll be released any day.

Who needs their car to tell them what year it is?

The headline is misleading, there IS a fix. Same true and tried method to fix VCR and microwave clocks for a half century.

Electrical tape.