It's basically the same thing. More so, the victim's family is using what I want to call the affluenza offense: "The driver's a rich fuck who wants to blame the car company and get away with it? That's just dandy with us as long as WE can sue the car company for shittons more than we could ever milk from the driver."

Trust me, as someone who wasn't born here, this whole litigation bullshit is still new to me, and still doesn't make sense. Just another case of the few benefiting at the cost of the many.

Well, then, yeah. I'm with you. It's a sad time when a low-production super-luxury marque like Aston gets a part that's still fairly critical made out of cheap plastic in China, and doesn't even do quality control to make sure it's getting what it ordered.

Who has to know that the same guy who called code enforcement was responsible for the slashed tires? In fact, I feel like a person who would be likely to have someone towed would be expected to be the polar opposite of a tire slasher. You're right, though, there's no way the ass hat driving that would corrupt himself…

Seriously! After dumping that much flammable liquid on the car, they went through something like 5 matches before actually getting it to light

Just letting the air out is too easy to fix, but torching it is just unfair to everything around it. Slash the tires, THEN call the tow truck. That'll make retrieval just that much more fun.

I'm more curious to find out how many plastics manufacturers exist outside of China...

Well, you can't expect people with $100K+ kitchens to actually cook, now! That would be a travesty! Might take away time from their indoor tennis hours in the middle of winter.

"WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN
UH-HUH"

Haha Newton.... That explains everything. Lived there for a few months back in my early teens. Previously lived in a white-washed suburb of LA (let's just say too close to where Bieber lives), and thought that was bad. Newton, though..... *phew*

I highly doubt that. If they were actually using carbon composites as a structural material, as they would need to if it were going to be used for the pedal arm, that would not be made in China. Way too many variables for that.

Well, in that case, it sounds to me like your problem should actually be taken up with the gods of Globalization, Commercialization, Litigation, and Sensationalization. Singling out F1 is akin to taking issue with the single bullet that a registered mentally ill man shoots you with using of a fully automatic assault…

Ironically, the team that probably needs that the most decided to go with a vagina. I mean, seriously, Lotus, how do you expect to get sponsors when you pull stuff like that?

Well it does so happen that blue-collar people hammer and weld things even for luxury cars, which was also what the blue-collar people did in the Chrysler 200 ad, which wasn't exactly indiscreet itself.

Melodramatic? Just the sentence, "What's more American than America?" is far more melodramatic than that entire ad.

Yes, and the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act (yeah, THAT's what the USA PATRIOT act stands for) gave the NSA the power and the funding to monitor the communications of people who pose a danger to the United States, right? So, since…

That's fine if you don't respect modern drivers as much, but I would bet with you that the top drivers (Vettel, Alonso, Kimi, Hamilton, etc.) would've still raced if the dangers weren't as high, but we'll never know that.

Well, the simple answer to that is "not enough!"

But then they'll miss the the excavator operators balls of steel. I'm pretty sure that's what the excavator's rolling on.

You're right: "Anyone can press a pedal and turn a wheel". But very, very few people have the capability to handle an F1 car at full throttle, and those people CHOOSE to race in F1, as opposed to racing in other series that DO take place on more dangerous tracks. Why do they make this choice? Irrelevant, because the…