Pretty soon, Mercedes will be congratulating BMW on being an "excellent manufacturer of grills" -- and they won't be wrong for saying it.

Owner did work themselves not factoring in their own labor costs, overhead, equipment costs, tools, and also did not sell parts to himself for a profit. Oh yeah, and no worker’s comp, insurance, or other things required to run a business does job for far less.

If we’re going to compare it to the WRX, Mazda spent a lot more time and money on the interior than Subaru did the WRX. It definitely shows.

Agreed

Were y’all even alive in the 90s? Man, we are at a place where Mazda has a turbocharged sedan pushing 310 lb ft of torque and 250+ horsepower... and it’s super affordable.... and you’re complaining about it not being sporty enough? I had to drive a 1993 Camry in high school. Did it have a dent in the bumper? Of course…

LMAOOOO

The best part of Mazda is that Soul Red paint... any vehicle not in that color is a waste.

I have really enjoyed my 2017 Touring manual with the NA 2.5L Skyactiv engine. The engine is kind of coarse and isn’t totally satisfying to wring out, but the car just seems to come alive on a back road. It also passes the “look back” test.

Meh, that’s a stock Wrangler. By the time it has a couple thousand dollars of modifications such as Angry Eyes, Military Grade LEDs, wheels with Ben Hur spinners, Bikini Tops, etc. it will be just as good as sitting in a parking lot outside of a mall as any of the others.

My father and uncle were both airline pilots, and would be sad and angry to see how badly Boeing screwed up with this cobbled together mess of a plane. The fact that almost everyone is focusing on the MCAS system instead of the inherent aerodynamic instability of the plane due to the repositioning of the wings and…

Yeah, you run the stats on it?  The 200 was the Gold Standard-- it’s several orders of magnitude safer than the MAX;  the MAX type only managed a few thousand flights with two hull losses and almost 350 fatalities.

Well, from a design perspective, yes it is.

Quite to the contrary - an older model plane that has been tried and tested, that mechanics are familiar with and pilots trust, is much safer than a plane that behaves unpredictably and is unfamiliar to those operating it. 

I mean, it probably is. How many crashes are associated with the -200s that are caused by the plane itself in the past 20 years? Vs the MAX’s?

With a background in aeronautics, control systems, safety systems and embedded real-time control systems I assure you that pretty much everything about the MCAS implementation was fatally flawed. Hopelessly fatally flawed.

Just put it in Airplane Mode.

To be fair, they were only mighty for a brief period of time and were riding on their clout like a trust-fund kid for a good portion of the last decade. Even their “greats” were pretty flawed experiences that audiences(including myself) gave a pass, cause it was “Bethesda.”

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When my oil arrived there was a big scratch on the label. 1/5 stars. I have no thoughts on the quality of the oil itself.