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At a guess, I’d say first rain of the season + dusty roads = mud slick, then add in some crappy tires.

Aussies live for watching wankers come unstuck.

Aussie born and bred.

Did they do it out of the goodness of their hearts? Probably not.

Nah, my first thought on this was “they’ve got a smart PR person and their corporate structure is smart enough to have made sure this issue got to his/her desk.”

Considering how blatantly crass the one percent can get, and how the “Go Fuck Yourself” wing of the GOP is ascendant, well, whoever made this decision at Chevron probably deserves a solid chunk of praise.

My hunch, based on being a worker bee inside of a big company, is that there’s likely someone, a real person, maybe also a parent, who argued on behalf of an otherwise unorthodox approach. In the end big companies are still full of human beings and like many of us might have, saw something personal in this memorial.…

You’re probably right. But, on the other hand, a corporation is just a collection of people. You probably don’t have to look too hard in Chevron’s office to find someone impacted by drunk driving, or with a family member that was.

To add to the cynicism, they now know only one older person maintained it, so can plan after X years to remove it.

I get what you are saying and agree with you. Very large corporations are quick to not give a shit. I happen to work for such a corporation. But then I think about the charitable things that my coworkers and I do, some company sponsored, some not. I’d like to think that as a corporation, Chevron didn’t give a shit…

No, you’re not far off. The company I work for did something similar, to prevent bad press, and then pressed the advantage into a nice little tax deductible gesture while they were at it. A commercial grade park bench is around 750 bucks, a cast bronze plaque is around 200 bucks for a fairly large one, and it might…

They’re a multinational oil company used to tons bad press and being the bad guy. I’m guessing they could have very easily said “fuck it”. Instead, they chose otherwise. And yes, this does net them goodwill. Doing a good thing even when it’s in your benefit is still a good thing.

I mean, I had the same reaction. So probably

The British test makes a lot of sense, no annual inspections until a car is 3 years old and then all emissions and safety items are required to be checked.

I wish you could do a cheat sheet for other car reviewers on what points to cover. Maybe it’s the fact that being a Canadian you have to drive in similar conditions to those of us in the Northern US but I feel like every time I read your reviews they are telling me things I actually need to know versus things someone…

I will burn this motherfucker down if they introduce hashtags.

I really need to fix the leaky exhaust-wanker on my cunt-missile.

Cars movies are like Jason Torchinsky articles - you just have to embrace the insanity and ride it out.