3rd gear: They aren’t paying to shutter the company, just taking an impairment on their investment to write off the losses. Keeping it around would cost way more than shuttering Argo and dispersing talent and tech to the investing companies (Ford and VW). There will be some wind down expenses, mostly severance and…

Not really, the writer here just doesn’t understand it. They said they invested $2.7bn and are getting nothing out of it, it is a loss. They aren’t paying to shutter the company, just that their investment is worth zero so they get to write it off as a loss. Now, there will be some money that goes into winding it down…

What is the average outage time American’s experience purely due to grid capacity issues? Next, what is the total minutes the average American spends without electricity to their home for any given reason? Lastly, do you have any actual insight to how electrical operators function (either generation + transmission or…

I never expected my generation of left leaning people to become basically identical to neo conservatives in terms of their understanding and rhetoric of international relations, history, and other nation’s sovereignty. Now the Chinese are racist and saber rattling. We live in the country directly responsible for the…

Found the sucker!

...there’s that whole issue with the Chinese Communist Party being willing to shut down Earth’s economy over the chance to invade their neighbor.

I dunno, last I checked, the odds of your kid being shot to death in an elementary school is a lot lower there.

Seems like you also hate starting your sentences with capital letters.

The thing is- airlines are already carefully watching their fuel consumption. The newer Boeing planes are much more efficient than the older ones. And the airlines are by now masters at packing every flight full. You don’t see an airline flying around a mostly empty 747 just to look big and macho. You don’t see an…

Cautionary tale of why the direct sales model isn’t all that wonderful in many situations.

You’re an automotive journalist blogger and you’re just learning this? Hang your head in shame.

Yeah, holy crap. Is this the level of automotive expertise and insight we should come to expect here? To me, this issue is so fucking...basic? What next, a story on wipers that move at different speeds? YOU’RE USING YOUR WIPERS WRONG PEOPLE!

Seriously? You didn’t know that many cars have this lane change tap function? Shame! As for the self-cancelling signals on a motorcycle, my 1986 Honda VFR had that yet none of my newer bikes (2001,2007, 2012 Hondas, Ducatis and BMWs) did.

Not everything is 0-60, but when it’s your direct competitor, it’s relevant. The M240i xDrive is 3.6 vs 4.3 (both C&D ideal condition times). Considering both cars do very similar things, it’d be hard to not go towards the BMW for a mere $3,000 more.

Modern Audi styling sucks ass for one reason.

Awful interior. All that piano gloss plastic looks like it belongs on a 25k car

This isn’t why there’s a chip shortage. That’s silly.

Nobody is dying from having to pay $18/mo for a warmed tush.

Like they aren’t going to do it too when they see how much money BMW rakes in from this.

Yup, that even worked its way down to Toyota, and it seems like we’ve all forgotten about that.