You need to get a grip. You were feeling deflated. That tends to happen when you’ve been rolling for too long.

CiC: You’re not her dad. If being her dad is not your idea of a good life, then don’t let her use you like one.

How hard are parts to find?  Is there a decent aftermarket community for both parts and supply?

More than on an Aventador, probably.

What are the royals doing in an Audi?

The dilemma of social media is that it was originally supposed to allow “anyone” to write “anything.”

I like the analysis on why China does certain things. It’s easy to look at it on the surface and say hey, they want to keep their population uneducated and oppressed. But it has also been a method to grow local industries, who use this environment to bring indigenous tech to maturity. Perhaps this was originally a…

Care to elaborate on how this is a uniquely Taiwan thing, as opposed to the norm in most developed countries?

Yeah, I wanted to point this out too, but this kind of stuff is really at the Benz S-class or Rolls Royce level, not an Acura TLX. I would think a mainstream car just needs an interior and exterior once-over by human eyes, without much real manual labour required.

At the top end of the luxury car market, it’s important to have manual labour. Leather cannot be relied on to stretch consistently, especially expensive leather. An expensive finished-metal fitting may not be suitable for a robo-shove into a delicate stitched leather binnacle without scuffing or bending something.

Sorry, as a somewhat frequent user of SNA, what about it is fun? I’d stay the most exciting time for me was a thunderstorm diverting me to LAX.

There’s a reason why Hong Kong moved its airport to an artificial island with no residents ;)

Stupid question, is the copper coated to prevent oxidation?  Isn’t exposed copper prone to turning green?

When you spend that much on a car, they (or you) can probably figure out a solution. Maybe there’s a tripod that mounts on an unpainted body surface somewhere, or even on the ground, to hold the fuelling hose and keep it from touching the body.

The Apollo IE on which it’s based is also a car that needs more attention. These are some of the best-looking cars designed today.

Crack pipe...the E-class and 5 series start there and offer RWD + a less fussy automatic.

Is it true that he only apologised to his mother, and not the victims’ families?

There was probably some element of private discussion along the lines of “hey, if you quietly give up this particular collection of cars you will probably be in much less trouble with those other assets that you have, and we can report you for a lower value of assets seized.”

Depends on what the actual problem is, but the running joke (truth?) is that you don’t get out of the exotic car repair shop for under $1000.

“too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,”