I’m tired.

If they had simply published a pat on the back for an admittedly generous PR move it would have been lazy journalism. Nobody said it was a bad thing they did, only that there are other possible motivations. Either way the hospital is better off than it was last week.

Disagree. Rating reliability on specific criteria is more like saying “The last 6 Fast and Furious movies haven’t been good at accurately displaying automotive realities, so we predict the next one won’t either.”

I like that (from yesterday’s article) Tesla couldn’t help by try to work both sides.

I think you’re right, Brian. In recent years, parents that are worried about the minivan stigma tell themselves that they aren’t lame because their rolling box has AWD and is called a crossover instead. There are still plenty of people who understand the benefits of minivans.

Pretty sure my buddy’s Del Sol was putting out at least that.

I heard it was Dan Brown. And if you crack it open, there’s a clue from Leonardo DiVinci to turn mountains of cash into basic maintenance.

Wait, this doesn’t actually clear out your history from their database, does it? I only ask because if this just clears what you see of your history, I would think they could still target you based on your history. No?

Yeah, the deaf guy probably wasn’t that into getting home safely to his family anyway.

I’m guessing if they were being hyperbolic, they would have really played up the “10 hours” instead of 10 miles.

I come to this site to get automotive current events, this kind of technical information, and GIFs, in equal measure.

“Excelling all others”

I find it hard to believe that anyone on this ‘creative team’ has ever thought something was too on the nose.

Maybe. But if the penis theory is correct, it seems a bit more fitting.

Well...

Agreed. Most of the reason I was interested in this was to see how much difference there was!

On a (maybe?) more humorous note:

This seems like semantics, no? We don’t have a specific threshold, so technically, there’s no “Unsafe Level’ either. We just know that “a lot” is bad.

I agree, but I think the model that you and I had for how techs got paid was incomplete and could make it sound like they are being “greedy”, instead of trying to avoid being robbed.

That was my impression as well, but a prior article described manufacturers drastically cutting the alloted “book time” on jobs that still take the same amount of “real work time”. Which would seem to save the manufacturer money, allows the dealer to break even, and squeezes the tech doing the work.