Ah okay... I didn’t realize they moved to Yorii. But to be fair, the last time I even paid attention to the Fit was when they started sending Chinese-built variants to Canada half a dozen years ago.

Are they still doing final assembly in Suzuka?

That makes sense. But I’m still curious why the producers would have needed to do persuading to get them out of citations for doing the very thing they’re properly permitted to do.

You could have just published your title with a picture of Trump, and the article would have been complete.

Guessing. Got it. Same here, which is why I asked the question in the first place: “Why should your producers have needed to be “persuasive” if you already had the correct permits???”

Any portion of the article mention that was taking place, or are you just guessing?

With... driving around on a public road in a legally registered, visually stock vehicle? Not particularly.

But what reasonable suspicion or probable cause did they have to pull over a bunch of grown-ass-adults with cameras in a minivan during a weekend like this 4 separate times? Is their mere presence at such an event, or in the vicinity of such an event, cause enough for suspicion? That’s what I’m curious about.

This. I’m very interested to hear an answer. Why should your producers have needed to be “persuasive” if you already had the correct permits???

Gotcha, my bad, lots is lost in text.

The sad part of this is that I *knew* I was consuming fuel keeping the car running, but I’d never actually run out of gas before and thus didn’t believe I was burning enough to drain the tank.

I... haven’t been all that enamored by Mike & Raph, if I’m honest. I find they vacillate between whiny and sensationalist (used-car-dealer-style over acting & disingenuousness) and are impossible for me to watch without getting angry.

There was no sneaking around. I wanted to survive to see college, and when a large angry man tells you not to see his daughter again... you don’t.

You might be taking a comment said in jest a bit too seriously? It wasn’t that I actually believed that. But my 16 year old self used it as partial justification for engaging in what I’d been told is sin my entire life up until that point. Ya know? Like “oh, God doesn’t actually pay attention to Protestant churches,…

It was a Protestant Church though, and I think my GF at the time was Episcopalian (or Atheist), so my raised-Catholic self thought that kind of cancelled it out.

At the risk of this turning into a geriatric version of “Dear Penthouse”, all I’ll say is that we’d been dating for a while, and it was far from the first time either of us had been to that parking lot for that intended purpose.

Having been raised Irish Catholic, I figured doing this in the parking lot of a Protestant church kind of cancelled the sin out.

She was hot.

I did, and it hadn’t, but that didn’t really make her [or her dad, once we got back to her house] any less angry.

We were parked in a church parking lot after skipping out on the movie portion of ‘dinner and a movie’ with my girlfriend at the time. This was during the winter in New England so we kept the car running for ambiance/radio and to keep the... ahem... fog off of the windows...
Anyway, the fuel light had been on for a…