He’s a House leader because he’s standing up to an attempt to bloat a relief bill with a ton of crap that has nothing to do with relief.

In his defense, airline fuel efficiency really isn’t the biggest problem right now and the fact that democrats seem to think this is the time to try to add fuel regulations to airlines is kind of crazy. Same goes with wind energy and art grants. There is literally a pandemmic going on and the deomcrats are focused on…

Don’t you know that tripling the federal budget for arts programs and airplane emissions standards are CRITICAL individual protections that we desperately need to help those affected by this pandemic.

I agree.

Ha! That’ll teach you to pay off your loans! You should have bought a car or a house with that money.

Of course neither side can just say “we need to agree to send cash relief to our citizens, amounts based on (insert criteria)”, and end it there. Both sides have to add 10000 other items to argue over. 

But I don’t have any student loan debt left. Can I have $10,000?

Power delivery is a big deal, and likely exaggerated by the high altitude of the road test. It doesn’t help that Toyota’s long-lived V6 is a darling by all accounts, which makes the efficiency-focused four-pot feel weak.

You’re right, but people here hate Haldex for some reason. I’m assuming they only drove early versions of it, because the newer generations of it are pretty incredible.

They need to do what BorgWarner did with Haldex around generation 4 and make it proactive. For example, in the Golf R/Audi A3/Audi S3, the rear wet clutch pump is always primed via an electric fluid pump and can be engaged instantly, and is engaged immediately at some percentage as soon as you touch the throttle. It…

I'm glad they didn't treat us like idiots, we knew the obvious.

Hopper isn’t dead?

I mean it would have been surprising if it was anyone *but* him. We all knew this was coming 

Ghosn was not innocent but plenty in Nissan also were not, and it seems pretty clear everyone was in on it. The difference is the others got off with a simple apology, while Ghosn was set as the fall guy. Seemed like it was just a method to get him out.

You clearly don’t understand how corporate finance and controller functions work.

While this may be true, what’s also galling is that the Japanese authorities have made seemingly no attempts at investigating the rest of the Nissan execs. You think Ghosn was the only one skimming money off the top? Much like the UAW, Nissan had to go deep into its bench to pull out an executive who is mildly clean…

I believe it’s also the fact that Nissan skirted around salary cap laws in order to give Ghosn even more money -- in which case, Nissan deserves contempt. 

I agree that the wealthy and the powerful get treated way better and can get away with a lot more than the average person who can’t afford good legal representation.

For sure, that’s a deal but you also have to factor the maintenance cost of these high end sedans if you keep them for a long time. This is the reason why people lease. This is the price of “No Hassle”. Very often, these are company cars or pay buy car allowances.

For consumers, well, it’s always been smarter to buy used rather than new.