The weird thing to me is that despite the production shortage due to parts availability, the car makers are still buying a lot of sheet steel from US manufacturers. I don’t know if they’re stock piling it or partially producing cars or what. If they’re doing partial production, I can’t imagine that having that much…

You could always buy the base model, rip out the seats, and sit on old milk crates if that’s your preference.

It would seem to me that chip manufacturers and automotive and other sensitive industries need to get together and agree on “long-term service branch” style ICs and a schedule for updating them. Sure, validating new systems is hard, but you can’t stay on the old shit forever. If you have a schedule laid out in advance…

Yeah that’s what I got out of this too. There’s a lot of auto industry whining here about how it’s just too hard to keep up with their suppliers. Sure, newer silicon requires validation, but come on. Automakers aren’t just one or two generations behind. This garbage is 20 years old in some cases. That’s plenty of time…

It always astounds me that CarMax was birthed by Circuit City.

Who the hell needs raclette and potatoes when we have this in the US...

“Sorry kids. I, your father, will have to eat all your candy to make sure it is safe. I’ll buy you more.”

I know the Flex didn’t sell well, but it’s a shame because it was a really unique entry in the market. Maybe if they put some bigger wheels on it and added a few inches of ground clearance it could have been sold as an Excursion Express.

Out of curiosity, what are the locals concerns about the new plant? Most rural places I have been to in the south would love to have a huge source of jobs and income land in their lap.

From this post, not only did I learn that the Avantime was an exercise in horrible everything, but also I realized every gate agent and flight attendant I’ve heard refer to rolling carry-on suitcases has incorrectly called them roller-boards instead of roll-aboards. It never occured to me that it didn’t make any sense.

That’s a pretty inconvenient location for a Kroger.

Is this lack of 24/7 operations at these ports due to agreements with the International Longshore Workers Union? I remember several strikes at the long beach port.

The Just-In-Time inventory deliveries are LATE.

Jesus. The proportions here are just awful.

This kind of mixup could happen with your lien financed vehicle also. Shitty accounting is shitty accounting.

I know this post is old, but my brother has a condition that causes double vision also. His solution is to just wear an eye path over his non-dominant eye. He says after a few minutes his brain filters out the view from the covered eye and he can more easily do things like you’re describing.

REO Motor Company eventually evolved in the “Nuclear Corporation of America” and then later into Nucor Steel, which is still around and the largest domestic producer of steel in the US.

I don’t think DG should be lumped in with with Dollar Tree, or even Family Dollar. They don’t really sell $1 items; they’re just kind of small discount stores that belong to a large chain. Their prices, particularly for store brands are pretty similar to Walmart and the like, but they’re popping up everywhere. I live…

Something like that might make those vehicles worth the $15k over MSRP dealers are charging for them at the moment. 

I think a more salient point for this than bags of lawn things are sheets of plywood. Most people who want to buy bags of lawn things OR sheets of plywood would be better served with just a small trailer. A sad, old prius can pull a 6x12 trailer with no problem up to 1600 pounds without sullying its questionable hatch.