Not nice to think about, but the COVID-19 (the new, non-shaming places or animals name for the virus) is actually working in favor of OEMs, at least from an inventory standpoint. Sales are down, inventory was getting bloated, and we tend to get angry if an OEM shuts down a factory for financial reasons, but we don’t…

It would be nice to think that the case, but sadly, no.

Perhaps, just perhaps, ze Germanns are having a laugh at Ferrari.

The playbook for establishing a brand from a new country to the USA is well documented. Following said playbook almost guarantees success.

I stick to the idea that Nissan will declare bankruptcy and be purchased for peanuts by Renault, who may just set Mitsubishi adrift to piss the Japanese government off even more.

YMMV, as with most things in life, but I do stand with my idea that the turbine was the engine of the 1960s. Rotaries are more 1970s, and showed more practical use than turbines, but as the jet age closed, turbines were the absolute shit. And they turned out to be just that, lol.

The engine works well at a steady high rpm, but then, it just stayed at around 36,000 rpm all day, going up to 60,000 rpm at peak. You didn’t have lots of change for daily driving, even stop and go. The Chrysler engineers seemed to believe that the turbine worked fine for a daily driver, and the Turbine cars saw a lot…

Indeed, developing countries have often bypassed older technology and just installed current technology, creating a better infrastructure than many “first world” ones. Telecommunications come to mind. The developing world is cellular, not fixed landline based. Most are 5G, and while not everyone has one, smartphones…

Well, actually NSU and Citroen plowed on, for a while. The Ro80 and BiRotor were both brought to market, just not here in the USofA.

Any Village People costume should work....

While not all margarines are vegan, many are. And most are cheap. This product is not.

Interesting law in MA. I can see where they would want anything hauling around dead bodies to not then haul living ones, but then, why are ambulances legal? Dead body versus living one spurting blood and gore, which one is more sanitary and less likely to expose the living to pathogens?

The Removal Car is often an unmarked van for discretion’s sake, and most funeral homes have those along with the more ceremonial-only use hearses, at least around here in the land of the newly wed and nearly dead (central Florida).

Well, the days of people trying to look like they were better off by owning a fancy car have evolved to people with a lot of money driving a truck so as not to seem richer than the masses.

Let me preface this by saying the Coronavirus is bad. People getting sick and dying is bad.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek, which apparently was not obvious to you, but the point stands about trucks as luxury vehicles.

“If Kobe was a rapist, he represented a ongoing danger to every woman around him.”

But an Escalade is, regardless of what marketing might say, a truck.

This points out the current issue with Christianity as it affects politics and daily life.

Not unprecidented. Books by criminals or their movie rights are often ruled to not allow any profit from that book or movie to go the criminal by the courts. They usually assign any royalties of money made to go to the victim’s estate. No books, no TV, no movie, nothing compensates the criminal, just the victim. And…