If you look at the older advertising, yes. Before the term “SUV” was coined, Suburbans absolutely were called station wagons. And Chrysler also referred to their minivans as wagons in some of their early ads as well.

And this is the same attitude that too many judges also have about sexual assault. "Oh, you only raped her, not like it was murder. 12 months, minus time served" 

They probably help with rear visibility, too. At least to a degree. 

Maybe not, Toyota fixed it so that they all have to be mounted to the carpet with those plastic hooks now. 

Progress is progress, my city just dropped off the list of 10 worst places to live in my state, and I'm pretty happy about that.

Doesn’t Detroit also have the highest car theft rate in the country as well, along with a police department that is seemingly unable to do anything about it (and, in some cases, has actually been part of the problem)?

Actually, the Chinese copy might more reliable than the Evoque. 

I had two Escapes as company cars at my last job, a 2017 and a 2019, both had the same defect with the plastic trim piece at the top of the dashboard under the windshield. Tucked under the A-pillar trim on one side, sitting on top with the rough unfinished edge exposed on the other. Except the correctly installed side…

This isn’t anything new - anyone watch coldwarmotors on YouTube? He’s found two completely missing body welds on the ‘60 Plymouth he’s rebuilding.

And $40,000 invested into an S&P 500 index fund in the spring of 2009 would likely be worth over $150,000 today.

I feel like even with the rainy winter, you still have way, way more days to enjoy top down motoring. Where I live, even on summer days where it isn’t raining, you’re still very likely to wind up behind a dump truck throwing dirt and stones or a poultry truck heading to or returning from the slaughterhouse, with…

Oh yeah, he definitely intended to mass produce something - either cars or motorbikes, or maybe both. The scooter in particular looks like a factory finished product. 

It seems like it was pretty well thought out and crafted for a homebuilt project. It really looks like one of a number of postwar European bubble cars, shows that there were people on this side of the Atlantic with similar ideas at the same time. Wonder whatever happened to it, has to still be around. 

Well obviously, but that was their logic. If the pilots had to be retrained on the system, than the 737 Max lost a key selling feature. Having the system be invisible and not clearly disclosed meant that Boeing could get away with claiming that no retraining was needed, which was the whole point of using MCAS in the…

I’ve never understood people who do things like this. I mean, yeah, OK, these were a special edition only available for the first limited volume model year, but these are mass produced cars - the special edition is barely different from the version that became widely available in quantity barely a year later.

Not to defend Cerberus, but they were left a big steaming mess by Daimler and only had about a year before the economy hit the wall. 

A Garfield themed restaurant?

The other alternative would have been to build the plane without MCAS and just make pilots undergo retraining on the 737 Max to familiarize themselves with its new flight characteristics, but that would have eliminated one of the Max’s major selling points (commonality with the older 737s eliminating the need for…

MCAS is supposed to make the 737 Max handle like an older 737, without it, 737 pilots would have had to undergo extensive retraining for the new version due to the very different flying characteristics caused by the different engine placement. 

Yes, that was the point of the MCAS. The 737 Max’s engines being mounted so differently from other 737s (further forward and sticking up slightly above the wing) changed its flight characteristics enough that retraining would ordinarily have been required, but the system was supposed to run in the background and…