If I wanted to deal with computers I would have been a computer technician rather than an auto enthusiast.

I think she is saying that it was rape, but it wasn't rape-rape.

Happy-go-fuck yourself, sir.

“and that he will “never be his happy go lucky self [sic]” again.”

Not exactly how I’d like to end up with a blower in my lap.

If we do get one, I’m willing to bet it’ll be lifted a few inches with some plastic body cladding.

No fair, they didn’t test the Mustang in real-world conditions.

Alternate Headline

Driver stayed calm, but the dashcam was FREAKIN’ OUT

Right. GM’s 160,000 cars getting 7% less mileage than stated on the sticker (but stated correctly with the EPA and in their marketing materials) but still remaining 100% emissions compliant is EXACTLY the same as VW’s 11 MILLION vehicles spewing 1,000-4,000% of the maximum allowable NOx for the last decade.

You forgot to call it “Guv’ment Motors.” You GM haters almost always do that. That’s how we can tell it’s you.

Uh, no. First, the affected GM cars are a small fraction of the affected VAG cars. Secondly, overstating the mileage by 1 or 2 MPG pales in comparison to installing defeat devices to hide that the cars were normally spewing 10 to 40 times the legally allowed pollutants. You’re comparing apples to baby tangerines.

The way I understand it, the EPA fuel economy results were correct, but the window stickers themselves were wrong. 1 MPG highway is a negligible impact on NOx production compared to a diesel running with little to no exhaust aftertreatment.

Similar intent? To my understanding, VW intentionally fucked with shit, whereas GM made an oops. Or did I miss an additional article somewhere? Last I’d heard, they didn’t even realize the mistake until they went to redesign the stickers for their newer models.

You nailed it.

Of course if you can’t make up your mind there once was an option to have many colours, all at once.

That’s the most New York sentence I’ve ever read.

You know the easiest way to tell someone is an engineer? They will tell you

I’m an electrical engineer and I still hate touching the battery.

Getting crushed by an Uber Escalade. I live in NYC and watched my favorite skateboard roll under the wheels of one- it snapped like stale matzoh.