Takata’s cheap ass airbags save lives too. They save more than they kill. If that’s your standard, then why is anyone angry with Takata for making airbags more affordable? Making it more possible for people to buy newer safer cars than they otherwise could?

Oh, so you can’t argue with what I wrote so you’ve decided to replace what I wrote with something entirely different. Did I write government chose Takata’s explosive? No I didn’t. The simple fact is the government put the bombs in your car. It’s still a bomb, takata explosive or not.

You don’t know the history of airbags. The government has insisted upon the unbelted male standard since day one. It has killed people since it was first implemented. It has killed people who would have lived otherwise. Your dear government implemented this standard despite knowing full well that it would cost people…

where I am from it is illegal to disable or remove airbags. I have a 1995 Acura Integra which uses the worst kind of propellant. the Gen 1 airbags. I should be legally able to disable them.

Very often the SRS system is not fused. Unplugging the airbag itself is the best bet, and also leaves systems like the seatbelt tensioners working.

Technically the federal government put the bomb in your car. Even working properly an airbag is an explosive device. They all have a degree of risk, some more than others. Standards that would make airbags less explosive have been resisted by fedgov.

Keep in mind that most if not all of those injuries occurred when the airbag went off in a car accident. Therefore it is not 113 out of 100 million, rather 113 out of however many of those 100 million that got into car crashes.

113 injuries on 100 million vehicles equates to a failure percentage of .00000113%

They can link to whatever they want. The only thing that matters is if they were paid to link. Patrick stated they never took money for an advertisement/linking videos so no hes not lying to himself or the readers.

Is that different from running a video from Roush, or the new DeLorean, or Mazda, or Porsche, or any other company we cover? Technically any car video is an ad, especially if it comes from an OEM or a tuner or someone.

No. We were never on HPE’s “payroll,” nor did we run any ads from them (I’m certain of the former and pretty certain of the latter.) We just wrote about them a lot. I can’t say we’ll be doing the same from now on, at least not in the same light.

If you can’t tell the difference between ‘opinions on current events/based on established facts,’ 'opinions based on investigation/journalism' and ‘opinions based on speculation from unfounded sources,’ you shouldn't be on the Internet.

Since journalists can be sued for defamation/libel. There’s a difference between making fun of an automotive celebrity and accusing them of doing something shady/illegal.

I personally had a bit of work done at Hennessey 8 years ago. This article is spot on and there’s not a week that goes by that I don’t regret using their services.

I’m pretty sure I never chastised you. Comments and articles are different things; we can’t just say things unless we can back them up, which is why this took so long.

Helmut Markko has two graves to dig today.

This is not an example of Evolution. It is clearly a case of Intelligent Design.

Mother fuck. You’re going to be missed, Máté. We need more Autobianchi drivers around here.

I’m sorry but if any of these people had ever been to a drift even before they would know better then to park their cars/stand on the outside of the corner. That’s literally the worst possible place to stand if something goes wrong. There is a reason that a fence and wall separate you from the cars at a real drift…