“...I appreciate your effort, but your safety demonstration shows that I may need to look at other options for my next vehicle.”

Jesus, Torchy. Your imaginary foreign vehicles are slipping through some kind of wormhole.

If they can produce the car without major reliability or quality issues, nobody will remember or care about them being a couple months behind the schedule they made up for themselves. If production gets delayed by years and there are major quality problems, then there might be a debacle. Frankly I’m impressed they’ve…

I really hope Tesla can pull it together and get the line running smoothly.

Exactly. Robots aren’t going to “take” people’s jobs any more than powered earth movers “took” the jobs of guys with shovels. The job being replaced sees reductions in compensation, so fewer people seek that job. People that might have taken that career instead get trained in different jobs that allow them to be more…

Yea you’re basically describing a car.

What do you mean? This thing screams lightweight.... :P

So it’s a faster Piaggio

I have owned one all wheel drive car that had run-flats when I bought it.

Flats happen less now?- than when?

Most importantly - run-flats are shit for performance, handling, and comfort. They ruin an otherwise perfectly good car. Abso-effing-lutely ruin them.

Neutral: Would You Buy A New Harley If You Had The Money?

I don’t know that the 2017 update is reasonable. Seems a bit high to me. But I do know that the 2007 edition is utter bullshit. 0 mrem is safe in a radiation crisis? Complete nonsense. A person gets exposed to 3.5 mrem for a cross continental flight. Hell adding up my flights this year I am in the hundreds of mrems.…

To be fair, the old guideline of “no radiation is safe” is VERY outdated and has been shown to be false. Studies have shown that radiation below a certain level poses no danger, with some studies showing that small levels of radiation are actually beneficial.

That said, I don’t know what the “safe” level found by those…

Lexus (Toyota) and BMW definitely compete for car sales.

Does the Subaru BRZ not compete with the Toyota 86 / Scion FR-S?

Also, if they have to, they can buy someone who knows steel for, like, a nickel...

The best Datsun was the Datsun you bought when you were sixteen.

Does it have to be a Datsun?

You should follow this up with an article about used car leasing. The issue with this transaction is that the leasing company is taking on a VERY hefty portion of the risk involved, hence the high interest rate. Did the sender give you any info on their credit history? That’s obviously a contributory factor,…