Even better if you run the prepaid maintenance plan like most product subscriptions; delivered on time, rather than demand, schedule. So you’re buying an oil change every two months whether you’ve been driving or not.

The comprehensive thing seems fishy, and I can think of two possible ways that played out.

The root problem is that MSRP has always been arbitrary, and manufacturers’ history of setting it artificially high has conditioned buyers to expect “deals”. You’ve always been paying market price based on current supply and demand. Nothing has changed.

Steve Jobs telling people to just hold their phones differently worked too. That doesn’t mean that the underlying engineering wasn’t flawed.

It’s still less half-assed than Chevy sticking wheel weights on Camaro brake calipers to quiet them down.

I’d like to think so, but I’ve heard plenty of engineers get it wrong.

It’s about to turn into cycling; why watch the race when you need to wait a few months for CAS to tell you who actually “won”.

If it was red flagged, then Red Bull would be protesting the stewards giving Hamilton a free tire change without risk of losing track position. This was a perfect storm of bad rules.

And 48.12 specifically says that the lapped cars may pass order is transmitted to all competitors. I just don’t understand how there was the time or even mechanism to specifically indicate that only the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen were to unlap. The whole point of this rule seems to be to prevent an usnafe…

Red Bull isn’t publicly traded.

In most grille-less, front engined cars (like the C4 Corvette), cooling air gets pulled up from underneath. This requires the radiator to be leaned back at an angle instead of standing straight up. That takes up a lot of space.

Not sure exactly where in Upstate NY we’re talking, but anywhere outside of the Tug Hill area, FWD and all-seasons are sufficient.

Those wheels are hub centric. Lowering the car without any nuts will not put any load on the studs.

They could also just be crusty. The only time I’ve broken a stud, the nut was held on with the old orange threadlocker. Ironically, also on a Honda Fit. When I did the drive of shame to the shop around the corner to have the stud replaced, the tech said that he had already broken three that week himself taking snow…

Impact (or breaker bar) off, ratchet on, torque wrench after driving it around the block.

I don’t know how much of a bonus drivers get for the constructor’s championship, but Bottas crashing Hamilton would probably be a very expensive gesture.

Do you really think that the sort of people who buy Red Bull would be bothered by this?

I miss having frameless doors.

What I’ve been seeing where I am is that the dealer always has just one trim line, but which one varies month to month. It’s never the base trim though. If sales are down, because supply is limited, it makes sense to focus production on the models with the highest per-unit profit margin.

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