I am all for getting paid for a job but I cannot feel bad for mechanics. These $125 an hour job rates are fucking outrageous. I have sat in a waiting room for 45 minutes to be charged for a job that took “4.5" hours at $95 an hour. $428 for 45 minutes work.

As the article alludes to, the ridiculous hourly rate isn’t going to the mechanics. The dealership is pocketing the majority of it, and when they raise the rate from $95 to that $125, only ~$3 is going to the mechanic. The other 90% is going to the dealer’s profit.

I like the idea of him and May doing a show where they plan to strip down an engine and, by the end of the first season, they’ve almost picked the engine degreaser they’re going to use. But it’ll be the most insightful discussion on engine degreasers that television has ever seen.

Double denim disaster? Rubbish. I raise to you the “triple denim disaster”.

Nah. I like the Cube. The Cube is weird, and it is great to have weird cars. Weird is good. It is better than having another indistinguishable designed-to-be-inoffensive-to-everyone lump out there in the mass of cars. Plus it is very space efficient.

Given the size of the company, Dodge almost certainly had these social media campaigns mapped out well in advance, and tweets around them were pre-loaded and scheduled ahead of any incidents. This is extremely common, if not the norm, for social media posts.

Are you kidding me? People need to chill the F out.

What’s your degree in, Professor?

OFFS, this headline is super click-bait-y. Everyone knows TSA has already ruined air travel.

This kind of attitude is why the robber barons were so successful. “Accept your shitty conditions or find a new job” doesn’t work when there’s shitty conditions everywhere. That’s why unions and strikes came into being in the first place. This strike is affecting over 100 dealerships, what do you expect all of those…

A Rotary Camry would make America even greater than back when it was apparently greater than it currently is.

You have no idea how the construction industry works. Your ideal scenario doesn’t work in that market.

He said he doesn’t want a Miata

While definitely not legal, and for good reasons, I would not find the act unsafe. In straight and level flight, with no weather around there isn’t much that could go wrong. Letting the kid yaw and role the plane lightly under strict supervision at that time wasn’t really unsafe. A trained pilot would need to sit in…

Counterpoint: cross-posts like this are the only way I find out interesting articles like this exist.

Well by that metric no one should ever work or travel past where they can conveniently travel on foot, and it’s so nice that you are amazing enough to decide for someone else the importance of someone’s job and in fact said persons overall existence.

Now the stupidity comes into play. A work truck doing its job is far more efficient fuel wise than any other vehicle on the market. Would it make more sense for him to trade in a 15mpg truck to buy 4 Pruis’ to haul the same amount of tools and materials? Maybe people should ditch the 25mpg minvan that holds 8 and…

Eh, I get this perspective, but honestly have little sympathy for it. Someone in your position using the truck for its intended purpose is not a problem, and higher gas prices can be largely passed on to the customer and deducted from taxes as a business expense. The issue is that when gas is cheap, people will just…

VW did this with the Jetta and sold bajillions.

And that’s how a Shelby Mustang is born, ladies and gentlemen.