Someday somebody will have to explain to me why using corporate cash to buy stock at the peak of its value is “doing right by the shareholders.” It’s not a wise long-term move, even if it’s that particular company’s own stock.

we’ve already bailed them out with crushed flights, baggage fees, $12 dollar shitty snacks and ridiculous fares. Having flown Ryan in Europe I feel extremely cheated by our domestic airlines, it’s a cattle car both ways but at least on Ryan I’m paying steerage prices for steerage class, Bailouts my ass. 

There’s nothing wrong with an AW4.  Far superior to the Chrysler transmissions the Grand was saddled with. I do prefer the AX15/NV3550, but the trans isn’t something to fault. 

While I agree in principal on the fairness issue, I think the larger issue is who is going to be burdened the most. The average factory worker will have a much tougher time weathering a long furlough than most executives. To generalize, it’s going to be easier for the executive to arrange for someone to be home with…

“Why is it any more fair for the company to shoulder this burden than the employees?”

I’d wager they fully expected to break the car, they just didn’t know what they were going to break.

How about Option C: The president is an idiot who just says stuff without worrying about any basis in reality.

I’ll pass on calling dibs. Few things are more humiliating than being underwater on a Hyundai.

You’ll notice on the spreadsheet that, at 72,384 miles and 115,362 miles, the air conditioning compressor had to be replaced. “AC compressors are one that...we realized early on, was that they are not designed to be used around the clock,” Sonnad told me, pointing out that this Model X’s AC was in use pretty much…

Best part of this thread is all the Tesla fans who are proving yet again that they are incredibly thinned skinned about even the slightest critique of their cars

I’d like to see 2 cars run for the same mileage and time in the same fashion. One in California and one in Michigan, and compare the effects of weather and salt.

Definitely more interesting than an F1 race!

No. This is less attractive than the Yukon. Lincoln’s designers easily outdid this, but Cadillac will likely continue to rule the sales charts.

GM has completely lost the plot. We want vehicles that aren’t ugly and have decent interiors. We don’t need another behemoth that’s a useless brodozer.

I have no problem with this. You seem to have an irrational hatred of these tail lights, much like my wife has an irrational hatred of Clare Daines.

One year they had then engines spinning at 12000rpm at Daytona and they were dead reliable for the testing. They cut the rpm limit to 9500rpm because the cars were going “too fast” for safety sake on the turns. It was kinda scary seeing in open practice a train of 10-15 cars pushing 250mph. 

Please don’t call Trump a Russian operative. It’s really unfair to all of the Saudi, Chinese and other thugs and dictators that send him cash.

An executive preferring the world die before giving employees a small raise sounds pretty true to life to me.

On the one hand as a shop steward I do love how this game is essentially a “fun” way to learn about both early trade unions and how industrial relations sort of work.

Go off King