Here’s a bit more insight that has some fun details, from a cab company in NY that runs its 205 vehicles 20 hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year...

My reco: Skip the smart TV. Just get a regular LED TV.

Why? Because a regular LED TV plus a Roku stick or Fire stick will give you virtually all of the same functionality as a smart TV, but at a lower cost (you can even get the stick for free if you sign up for a 3 month trial of sling TV at $20/mo). But it isn’t just…

My reco: Skip the smart TV. Just get a regular LED TV.

Why? Because a regular LED TV plus a Roku stick or Fire stick…

Yes. Un-freakin-believable, isn’t it? The medallion is physically attached to the car and cannot be moved from car to car (it can be transferred, but has to be registered to a single vehicle). So you can’t run one car from 8am-4pm, another from 4pm-12am, and a third from 12am-8am to cover a whole day. So for each car,…

Seems solid, but not really. Mazda led the design, but they got a LOT more help in the design from Ford than your link is letting on (trust me, I worked with many of the people who designed large chunks of this engine back in my day). Your link is more accurate than Wiki’s claim, but it was far from just “little knick…

Technically, Tesla has to be issuing a recall. They just can do the work more efficiently.

FWIW, in some cases, we’re seeing easy fixes for software - Ford, for example, has taken to sending jump drives to customers to install updates to the myfordtouch system. No trip to the dealer necessary, and the vehicle is safer…

See my other reply - Wikipedia isn’t accurate here. Saying Mazda designed them with Ford footing the bill is just as inaccurate as saying Ford designed them 100%.

I like Morzda. :)

Wikipedia isn’t the best source of information. Good, sometimes very accurate, but not always. Ford had a huge portion of the work on the design, though the Mazda team was designated to be “lead” (ie, upper management was on the Mazda side, but Ford engineers were very, very heavily involved). It’s similar to when…

I don’t disagree one bit with that. But the fact remains - for taxi companies, the single most important thing a car can do for them is to be out on the road. Fuel economy doesn’t matter if the mean time between failures is low and the mean time to repair is high. Reliability doesn’t matter if the mean time to repair…

I see JimZ cleared up the buying tech bit - but in this case it could be as simple as supplier. Toyota used Panasonic to supply the cells for their batteries. Ford used Sanyo.

None of these vehicles run for 40 hours a week. A NYC taxi medallion can cost over $1 million (a peak of $1.3 million, now down to $840k-ish thanks to Uber). The only way to cover those costs is to run the vehicle as close to 24/7 as possible. At current loan rates and at the typical 15 year maximum term, that’s…

Well, they did use soy foam... so they were “organic” seat cushions from the day they rolled off the line...

Calling any of these a “Mazda Engine” or a “Ford engine” is a bit absurd - the two companies worked together to design them, and they’re really “Mazda/Ford engines”. Which is why you’ll see Ford labels on Mazdas and Mazda labels on Fords...

Which was a joint Mazda/Ford design - like so much of the mid 90s - mid 00s Ford and Mazdas...

Your ignorance is astounding.

And then Congress pulls funding to enforce the deal. Or simply backs out under the very real possibility that one of the loons currently running for president gets elected.

Congress can’t do anything to stop it? Are you forgetting that they can veto AND that they can control funding necessary to implement it? And that any sign of the US government not going along can convince Iran to not comply with their side of the agreement, either?

You don’t think they can get 2/3? Count on every single GOP member, since they’ve decided that they as a block must oppose Obama at all costs and are firmly in Israel’s back pocket - that means 12 senators and 44 reps is all they need. There are enough D’s that are afraid to go against Israel that I just don’t see…

I don’t see Iran ever agreeing to this if the US pulls out.

The catch is that in a capacity-constrained environment (which is where Ford is, thanks to better management), they either have to build a new factory in Mexico *OR* they have to shift production from Mexico. If they build a new plant at the cost of closing a brand new plant in the US (what Wayne essentially is), that…