If VW aims at mass market, and produces downmarket cars using expensive US or European labor, how do they expect to compete with Asian cars that have better reliabilty,daily improving quality, and no well-deserved stigma?

“Crap-Ton”

EVERY car has plastic bumpers.

How does a 2.5sec 0-60 et Save the Earth?

I have no concern whatsoever about recycling CF.

Put it back together, call the trans “rebuilt” (which it technically would be) and post on CL.

BBC has now noticed the bank account is looking a bit depleted without all those Top Gear viewers. This is precisely why professional athletes get away with the the most heinous behavior—-they are paid to win games, and they will continue to get paid until the winning stops...all else is irrelevant as far as team…

I get cranky when hungry too.

My Dad is tall and wide. He doesn’t fly unless he gets a business class or First Class seat. Simple. Not cheap, but simple. A Southwest customer he is not....

As our economy tanks, we just might.

I prefer government stay out of my seat. They have a hard enough time regulating the maintenance and air traffic.

I don’t understand why so many auto journalists attach so much value to all things Tesla. In Dec 2015, Ford sold more than 3200 F150s A DAY....Tesla lost money struggling to sell 50k for the WHOLE YEAR!!! Teslas are toys for the wealthy...Musk is a compulsive bloviator, and electric cars will remain novelty items…

Cadillac’s crude association with the snobbery that is private jet aviation is nauseating.

I hope Jalopnik/Kinja’s new ownership institutes editorial guidelines that discontinue use of juvenile expletives in headlines and copy.

Clothing is sold at highway rest stops because people buy clothes at highway rest stops. Just because you don’t buy clothing at highway rest stops doesn’t mean nobody buys clothing at highway rest stops.

In what way did fixing roofs in Honduras accomplish the mission of Marine Corps? Was the budget of the US Military used in the manner in which it was intended? Did the Marine General follow orders, or did he free-lance?

Ditto.

“...this story sounds more hopeful than the typical deadline budget dump fiasco.”

It can happen in any number of ways, but it MUST come from within. A nation or culture cannot be saved from itself. It must define and solve its own problems, in its own manner, on its own timeline. Any other solution will, by necessity, be unsuccessful because it will be alien.

I just returned from volunteering at an orphanage in Mexico. While there, I met a three year old boy who just arrived from the hospital, where he was sown up after being sexually abused by his father. I consider such service part of my Christian duty to serve the needy. Such experiences also serve to tighten focus. I…