Did GM intentionally design those ignition switches to be faulty? That’s the major difference with Dieselgate and so many other manufacturer sins. This wasn’t a “Fuck Up & Cover Up” situation. This was “We got caught executing a well-planned criminal scheme.”

They are collaborating on a new product: the Septiq AF

Don’t forget so incompetent he promoted Mike Tyson fights and didn’t even rip off Mike Tyson! How is that even possible? The entire point of a Mike Tyson fight was to rip off Mike Tyson.

Well, London is crawling with Russian billionaires who are always looking for ways to launder a few hundred million.

My anecdotal evidence, in the Puget Sound area, is that there is a noticeable increase in turbo spool & supercharger whine sounds I’m hearing at night. I’m just a few hundred yards from the 330' spot of an ad hoc drag strip operating on an arterial. There’s probably 30-40 a night this year, compared to maybe 5-6 in…

“Jerks” + “Illegal” ≠ “Glorifying”

Is that the one where David Carradine die when his belt slips?

...burned their britches with the Germans big time

This could be the equivalent of the Integrated Circuit in electronics. A new way of reducing complicated structures to a single unit.

This is why I said governors should have exempted churches from large gathering restrictions.  Just avoid the martyr complex bullshit and skip straight to the martyrdom.  Let’s see how many of them really believe in the magic they claim makes them superior.

Gee, haven’t heard anything about it. No one ever talks about that.

Until there is another solution to the problems the dealership model was created to solve, we are stuck with that solution. One problem was when Joe Dirt in Yakima bought a F-150 with a faulty transmission, he had to deal with a faceless corporation in Detroit to get it fixed. They could/would simply ignore him.

Neutral:

That thing was too far ahead of its time.  The batteries alone must have weighed a ton, and it was a pretty raw system.  Not really surprised it melted.  Someone’s gotta be first, though!

“...attribute the attack to another person... to teach a lesson”

tl;dr

I’m guessing Jeff Gordon on a jumbo trike.

As cool as personal EV’s are or will be, delivery van EV’s are where the biggest quality of life improvement will be seen the soonest. A world without noisy diesel UPS & FedEx trucks is very desirable.

You’re right.  One good earthquake and that hill will be no trouble at all.

Those white-collars aren’t doing any of this voluntarily. They are doing it so their contract gets renewed when it’s up next year.  With all the cuts sure to come, the low level salaried folks are the first to go, so they have little choice but to “volunteer”.  Their choice will be noted on their upcoming performance…