We were covered in wet sand but I think that was because they leak. Some smarter minds than I could explain it better but the sand transfers horizontal energy into vertical by blowing the top off the barrel, so the lids aren’t sealed. The resistance and weight of the sand is better than water (IIRC) and I’d think inse…

You have never once said such a thing and there is no panic here — I’m countering an imbecile minimizing this and spreading astoundingly bad ideas. Just read all the different commenters explaining this to you. You’re not illiterate like the President so you can do it...

THIS!!! We did the same case study and came to very similar conclusions (I had to twist my team’s arm but we got there).

On the other hand, I don’t really care about the engine archetype so much as I don’t want to look like a 60-something roofer (with respect to both).

Precisely. See also the American auto industry in the 70's-80's. “Buy American” was a de facto subsidy for poor quality...until people woke up in their mechanic’s waiting area and stopped buying American.

We’re going to have a lot of house fires this month, aren’t we?

The brands that do this will be heroes. The brands that keep their restaurants open and taunt people who warned them should be burned to the proverbial ground.

(I find it insulting that you blame the news. I haven’t watched a news program of any kind for years.)

YES. THIS. I’d like a six-foot bed version for a camper shell but otherwise this is pretty much it.

Tough puppy. I like that. Stealing...

No. NO. Shut it down. Even a visit to the parts store (and its filthy counter) will spread this. Just look at Italy. That’s us soon. 

Stop it. You are spreading the astoundingly dangerous notion that this is no or not much worse than flu and it’s okay to go about one’s life. It’s not.

Rabbit GTI is a Mk1. And no, the Golf (II) wasn’t a stout car by any modern standard — We’d have been dead in either car without Fitch barriers.

“President Obama follows 608,500 on Twitter.”

Thanks Matt. Here’s the trailer for “A Gullwing at Twilight.”

I believe the great Dougie-D-Muro did a piece on this and, man, I couldn’t agree more. See the Peugeot 1007 ultra-practical slider here.

Marketing comms with an auto manufacturer here — Everyone’s talking about the imminent production shutdowns, for both COVID19 and the demand side collapse — The recession is very, very definitely here.

These saved my life in 1990. A drunk driver trying to make an offramp sent me into them at ~50mph in a flimsy Rabbit GTI. It was the ONE time in my life I was driving without a seatbelt. We were all seriously bruised up but fine.

You are fucking staggeringly bad at math. Seriously, no joke.

Warm baths. Copious amounts of weed.