And what prevents them from competing if they're simply looking at nothing but numbers and risk and not looking at race? They can still compete for business... nothing stops them.

And knowing the way things work, the successor will get the blame for what has been handed to them....

Did you read the article?

"In March 2013, the CFPB issued guidance urging banks to avoid discriminatory practices, saying dealers were unfairly charging higher interest rates to minorities."

Here's an L-100 with windows for passengers:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Merpati-…

Mercedes' R-Class minivan was probably a bad idea to begin with. Giving it a 500 hp 6.2 liter V8 was certifiable, but Mercedes did it anyway. The insanity didn't translate into sales, but it did give the world one of the greatest minivans it will ever see.

DC comics legos? So they can sell Wonder Woman's jet - just a minifig in a big empty box.

Neutral: Have You/Will You Buy A Used Car? Have you had any experiences buying a used car recently? Noticed any trends in prices in your area?

During driver simulator testing, there were two "crashes" that occurred while using Siri, and only one one other when a driver used a menu-based system.

But, according to the Freep, the governor is on it!

Because it is popular to bash Lincoln. They bash them because they share platforms and don't distinguish themselves enough from the mainstream brand (but give Lexus and Acura a pass for doing the same). They bash them for "ugly" vehicles, when many are truly just bleh - I'd argue that its more that they're less…

Well, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a taken from the C-97, which itself was a derivative of the B-29. So there's one.

Then there's the Ilyushin Il-76 - military transport turned into commercial airliner.

And a whole slew of Antonovs - An-22, An-26, An-32, An-72, An-124 (cargo airlines only).

So there's 7 to start...

You can do much better from something that small - and Mazda has done much better. In fact, most (if not all) of their new vehicles do very, very well. They just need to update the 5...

If they want anything out of the state, they'd better start contributing heavily to the GOP.

"We don't want to have a confrontation unnecessarily. I just think there's too much at stake for any of us to pick a fight with one another," he said. "We have big issues — there's no doubt about it — but I think, realistically, companies have to know... our members have sacrificed. I think that new people coming in…

UAW membership is falling, that thing in Tennessee didn't quite go down as planned, there's a whole group of old members who haven't gotten raises and young members who are paid way less, relatively, than them, and a new law in Michigan will make it easier for members to opt of the UAW.

The point didn't escape me. An F-104 has a better power-weight ratio than any of these, and I *can* buy one, but I can't afford it.

How about lb*$ / hp (smaller result being better) ? Let's be honest - most of these are obscenely expensive vehicles.

For example, that Hennessey Venom GT comes in at 2.205 lb/hp, which is light-years ahead of a Mustang GT at 8.52 lb/hp. But it also costs a cool $1 million vs. $32,925. So correcting for that, the…

I agree people aren't logical. Many people stuck with GM when it was clear that they were substandard - but the evidence is pretty clear that many didn't - they've had constantly diminishing market share for decades as their repeat customers have been drying up. The only way to fix that, IMO, is to build vehicles…

Marketing only works so far. If your product is substandard, you'll never get repeat customers.