My nigh on 3yo and newborn are unvaccinated by choice? Those fuckers, I’ll have to have words with them.

My sister in law and mother in law both have bulldog clips on their belts so they don’t retract all the way and hang loose. The SiL has written off at least eight cars including rolling one where she tumbled around the car and had two black eyes for months afterwards. She still does it.

NYS only last year made it the…

This works for most anywhere too. I work in heavy industry and if you dress the part, act confident but nonchalant/bored you could pretty much go anywhere.

I can only speak from my experience at my current US workplace where the starting rate is $23/hr, min 40hrs/week with good health insurance and a pension plan

As long as you want a new car, now is definitely the right time to ditch it, that's for sure!

I’ve worked in factories for the 12+ years of my career so far, steel making, steel manufacturing, train wheels and now tyre manufacturing. Shifted out of plant engineering into R&D because my old manager asked us to create a list of active projects and I had 42, ranging from CI items to multi million dollar projects.…

People are only distrustful of a select few Chinese made products. They buy bucketloads of other Chinese made stuff without pause otherwise.

Pretty sure they are targeting the EU first because now they are already in to Norway they have a foot in the door. Compliance with regulatory requirements is a very expensive and slow business.

I've already made my peace with going straight from a manual to an electric car, no auto in between.

Agreed, I would have waited for a manual, turbo Mazda3.

As I put in a post below, my current Civic Si has automatic emergency braking, lane keep, lane departure assist and active cruise control.

It was something like that and it didn’t make sense as my current Civic Si has automatic emergency braking, lane keep, lane departure assist and active cruise control.

My memory could be failing be but I believe Subaru did make reference to being unable to hit their safety goals whilst they still had manuals as an option. For reasons...

This literally sells hundreds of thousands of tyres in the current market for very little effort and outlay. For a tyre manufacturer it’s as close as possible to this as you can get:

Sadly this has been happening for a long time. Want a manual Mazda3? Has to be top spec, hatch only etc.

Would the efficiency metrics for diesel, HD trucks be worse if the trucks were remotely the same size and capability as they were say, twenty years ago? Size and capability bloat of those vehicles would account for a lot of that consumption increase over reduction in emissions.

I’m almost positive they had Hoonitron and Hoonetron up on a board for a long time before flipping a coin to choose.

Hoonigan + e-tron = Hoonitron

Poorly designed systems does not mean we should have no systems at all. It just means that companies need to be held accountable for their poor designs, as they would be with other failures. Every step we take towards a cleaner future is a good one.

*tangentially related tidbit*