5 isn’t remotely doable in a Focus.

Let’s look at passenger space for the Transit at 15 passengers vs. the Focus at 4, shall we?

Focus room per passenger / row
headroom: 38.3" / 38"
shoulder room: 27.8" / 26.3"
hip space: 26.95" / 26.4"
legroom : not listed / 33.2"

Transit room per passenger

You’re missing the entire discussion thread. The 787 is actually the more efficient airplane per passenger mile, not the A380, and StalePhish was complaining that the gallons per passenger-mile metric was misleading, when it is, in fact, arguably the very metric to determine efficiency.

Why is it so funny? I wouldn’t expect a 15 passenger Transit to beat a Focus for fuel economy. But the Transit gets 16mpg to 34 for the Focus. Yet it is carrying almost 4 times the number of passengers - so in terms of fuel efficiency, a fully loaded Transit blows away a fully loaded Focus - you’d need 15 Focuses at…

Actually, it could. Say, for example, you have 10 light aircraft and 2 super heavies in your pattern, and that pattern repeats all day long (so 83% light, 17% superheavy . To optimize your efficiency, you want the total spacing of your lineup to be minimized. Consider the following options for strategy:

1) Let 10 light…

Will this be how Tesla meets the promised price on the Model 3? Offer a lower price version, restrict initial sales to the higher price versions, complain the lower price one doesn’t sell, then kill it off? In other words, will it be a complete ruse with only a few ever sold at the lower price?

I’ve never understood that mentality. I know plenty of people that the second they get out of debt on one loan, they go out something else on a loan - most of the time something that isn’t the least bit necessary, just another toy. Then they end up worrying about every little random bill and whether they can afford it.

Used car values in general are insane. Last time I bought a new car, the Ford dealer had a 2 year old Taurus (2008) with 110,000 miles on it and they wanted $21,000.

What also blows my mind is how people justify it sometimes, too. I’ve heard arguments that expensive ($35-40k) 4 year old used F350s are acceptable…

Monthly payments without considering terms is pretty much a useless way to look at the cost of something.

OF course, dealers are happy if all you care about are monthly payments

Good thing the entire hurricane seems to be a hoax perpetrated by the government to back up the global warming hoax (according to Drudge, at least).

#3:

Good freaking luck on that one..

Except the UAW has endorsed Clinton (though I’m sure some fools in the UAW support Trump)

An exit tax is VERY different from what Trump has proposed.

Exit taxes only affect companies if they change the country they’re incorporated in. Shifting production around doesn’t trigger an exit tax. Reincorporating to the Grand Caymans to claim a lower tax rate would, even if not a single employee moved locations.

Sadly, it works.

The absurd thing in the bear one, of course, is that aluminum is less dense but has a significantly higher specific strength than steel - so from an engineering standpoint, you would never design the things with the exact same dimensions as they did in the commercial - but alter the dimensions of the…

Dude - you’re not thinking. The idiot tailgating you isn’t likely to wait until you have a clear lane to the right to move into, signal or not. You’re assuming that someone who is driving recklessly and irrationally will suddenly become rational? You’re out of your mind.

The thing is worth at $400-500 as scrap, more than the asking price just in parts, and if you had the proper equipment to pull the engine, none of the parts needed to fix the leaks or the suspension are actually all that expensive. The cost would be in the interior parts - and we don’t really know how bad it is…

Almost small enough to be an RC model nowadays...

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Deducting sales tax instead of income tax has nothing to do with what you owe on your mortgage.

What you owe on your mortgage might have an impact on whether you itemize or not, but in today’s world of extraordinarily low interest rates, your mortgage balance would be a small portion of your overall itemized…

You can deduct sales taxes in all 50 states - the catch is that you can’t deduct sales taxes AND income taxes. One or the other. For many people, switching to deducting sales taxes make sense in years when you make a large purchase like a car.

The Chevrolet Grommet would be marketing genius if they sold the Chevrolet Wallace as well.

Same thing can be said for most hybrids over an EV. Or even many non-hybrids over hybrids, depending on driving habits. Doesn’t seem to stop the sales...