There is a hell of a lot more than 200 years of data being used here....

NASA? No, that was the work of a Forbes right wing hack in an opinion piece.

I agree - and if you look at the ratings they have for Fords, they are generally VERY, VERY good until you get to “infotainment” - it isn’t the least bit unusual to see solid red “excellent” dots until that one segment, and then they rate the entire vehicle as a solid black.

Because of a glitchy OPTIONAL system for…

I agree - and if you look at the ratings they have for Fords, they are generally VERY, VERY good until you get to “infotainment” - it isn’t the least bit unusual to see solid red “excellent” dots until that one segment, and then they rate the entire vehicle as a solid black.

Because of a glitchy OPTIONAL system for…

Nope - that’s the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesa Lab:

The applications are unlimited. Industrial for one. Let the engineers figure out a use for it. That’s not our concern.

I don’t care. I graduated.

Done.

It isn’t just electric cars or North Carolina.

The hard right-wing legislature in Ohio (yes, they’re actually worse than many “red” states you hear about) just pushed a “study” that wanted to eliminate all renewable energy mandates in the state - mandates that overwhelmingly passed about 10 years ago.

Their reasoning?…

What glorified golf-cart made in China or India can be bought in the US?

As for the Volt, no owner actually needs to charge to be able to make it home.

Most turbos are controlled based on exhaust temperature and pressure - RPM will contribute to pressure boost, but not exhaust temp. As such, you can easily stay out of boost past 2000 rpm, but you have to control your demands on the engine.

“tried-and-true Honda reliability”

You mean like an Odyssey, Accord, Civic, TL, CL, or Prelude with a self-destructing transmission?

1) They were built in Kansas City, not St. Louis. :)

2) If there is a recall, federal law requires that the repair be done at any time, no matter how long after the recall the owner brings the car in. Theoretically, you could take a 1949 VW Beetle into a dealership today and they would be forced to repair the…

Sounds like a warranty repair, not a recall - recalls have no time limit.

Each automaker has its own contract. It isn’t guaranteed that Ford and GM workers are paid the same, but traditionally the UAW has pursued one automaker first (in this case Chrysler) and then worked to get near identical contracts in place with the other automakers, so pay has essentially been the same across…

Who said their rejection of the previous contract was based primarily on pay?

They also had the problem of the tiered pay continuing with no functional caps on the number in the lower tier (those workers are generally paid worse than non-union plants, btw).

They had the problem of the company not commiting to any…

Mark-1 plumbing and AutoNation, they’re coming for you next...

Put Takata airbags in it and you could trigger them remotely to kill the terrorists without even needing a drone.

There’s a mothership option you haven’t mentioned that eliminates much of the size restriction:

Towing the launch vehicle.

Think about it - in WWII, you could load a C-47 full of paratroopers and send it over the lines, or you could load it mostly full and then tow a glider full of paratroopers behind it. The bottleneck…

Wow... there’s a blast from the past.. a post of mine over 2 years old, coming back from the dead. :)