1) appease public with reasonable idea of security

Another thing you can do?

as the one that takes care of most of the maintenance in the family, you are correct. the vagueness of owners manuals is to help manufacturers avoid a lawsuit but also make it sound like their cars are invincible. I recently went through this with the BS of what is severe. “if your car experiences extreme…

From experience with my mom's Mercedes, they have very specific scheduled maintenance with all costs involved identified up front. Quite the opposite from Toyota. It's expensive, but at least you know what you're getting into.

You read that part correctly, but apparently you skipped over the first part the owner was supposed to agree to, which was bolded (hence the “further agree”):

I was gonna say, what the fuck is that guy on about? Literally nothing in his post was correct.

Unless you have a rag tag group of jack ass scientists that scour a part of your aluminum bed and pour gallium on it!

Who the fuck drops a load of landscaping blocks into their truck bed from 5 feet above the bed in the real world? This is how you break all the landscaping blocks you just bought and thus have to go buy them again.

Whenever you have complex, expensive regulations like CAFE, you create the incentive for manufacturers to find clever wall hacks. In the past, such wall hacks included “trucks” like the aforementioned PT Cruiser, Subaru Outback, etc.

“If Teenagers are TP’ing my house and I walk outside HOLDING a baseball bat, I expect them to stop TP’ing my house and go away, problem solved. If, instead, they see I’m holding a baseball bat, so they start smashing my mailbox, kicking my dog, scratching up my car, and start to approach me with intent, I’m going to…

“He got what he deserved”

“All I see are two equivalent assholes and one winning.”

Its the engine bay for grown-ups who feel more comfortable returning to that Fischer-Price world of their youth...

Yeah, well you can lay the blame for that at the feet of Daimler. It was Wolfgang Bernhard who waltzed in to Auburn Hills with a mandate to take 40% of the cost out of Chrysler Group vehicles. I can't understand why so many people are eager to give nickel-and-Daimler a free pass for their (IMO) malicious mismanagement…

Yeah. Just what we needed. A company with a long history of developing proprietary charging equipment, getting involved with something that’s more important than a dead phone battery.

For such a famous businessman, Trump puts forth a startlingly limited view of international economics. So you don’t want Mexicans coming into the US, but you want to cut jobs in Mexico, further incentivizing immigration?

Theory: Trump supporters are unable to figure out how to apply the stickers.

I always wondered why the convertible bench never got more love.

The radically new thing for the 3 is to be able to efficiently produce high numbers of cars with high quality and long-term reliability at an extremely reduced cost budget.