loki

14 hours ago, surreal1272 said:

You sure are making a lot of assumptions about who wants government to run everything (no one has said that they want the government to run their lives btw). 

 

Also questionable are these capitalism safeguards. When the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer, then clearly those "safeguards" are a little skewed in one direction. 

let's play some , use quotes to open discussion....
“The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.”
- Adam Smith

“By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”
- John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation […] Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.”
- Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom (1968)

14 hours ago, hyperv6 said:

You can try to explain it away but it is socializam. There are levels is socializam but any of them can fall to this level when any goverment controls this much of every aspect of your life with few checks and balances.

Sone if you here would love to have goverment running all things in your life but you need to use care at what you wish for as while capitalisam is not perfect it also has more safe guards to prevent on person taking over your life and all aspects of what you can or can't do. 

Social goverments when they do work like Sweden works well for their needs to this point. But it can go wrong fast like Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and others.

Power should never be focused in only one part of goverment. 

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
- Amschel Rothschild

guess this one!!!
The responsibility of the state. “Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical, or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services. Hence the principal task of the state is to guarantee this security, so that those who work and produce can enjoy the fruits of their labors and thus feel encouraged to work efficiently and honestly.... Another task of the state is that of overseeing and directing the exercise of human rights in the economic sector. However, primary responsibility in this area belongs not to the state but to individuals and to the various groups and associations which make up society.

On 4/17/2017 at 0:29 PM, hyperv6 said:

They have sold better mostly due to cheap prices. Discount anything enough and they will buy it.. That does not mean they will come back for a second one.

The Mid Size truck market will explode very soon. Having just shopped the market I can say the dealers I n the Midwest have a very limited selection of models and colors. Crew short beds are so very limited in availability.

 I hope GM also has a smaller unibody truck coming as that segment is going to take off too. There is room for both models mid and a smaller unibody. Some in the segment want a truck feel some want a car and this makes room for both.

baby avalanche? or 'lanche 2.0?  at least for GM.   actually small trucks certainly seem like a segment that, if given a few options and price, would be easy to sell.

anyone listen to the .. i think it was  like, radiolab, now i forrget what program did it and kinda went through the history of how this happened.. mostly the collapse of oil prices and that the government spent money like it was going out of style because of the oil $ coming in....  then prices sollapsed, chavez was doing somewhat ok , but he died then his successor did everything wrong and just made it worse..

the thing about "large" sedans now... they are all quite similar in available space for passengers. power trains are the biggest difference between them.

is the impala pretty much the same size as the lacross?

my point, lots of overlap(generally) and the shrinking sedan segment by sales.

Mazda has 2 sedans with 2 engines. (the mazda 2 is sold as a toyota)

Chevy has ..4? with 6? engines (not including diesel) sonic, cruze, 'bu and impala.  GM can more easily do this cause of size, but i would say in the next 4 years, they'll probably need to simplify/hybridize down to ...4? engines.

will the differentiation be in the trim(price point) in the future, or something else?

23 hours ago, dfelt said:

@loki So NRE let you go? I checked out their web site: http://www.nre.com/about yet they do not say what NRE stands for?

Wishing you the best in your search for new employment.

Thanks.

what it "used" to be called

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Railway_Equipment_Company

i guess i could update that page with some info.... it shouldn't be secret....?

Title is me.

Still in IL for now, no certain plans for the next few weeks, but will be moving to Cincinnati. unless i have to find a job closer to there anyway.

Either the Locomotive business is being terrible last and this year, or NRE may be crumbling.

in terms of the tires, once the dunlops are done,..most anything will be an improvement. i put pilot sport a/s3+s on mine. much quieter. does have a ~2lb/tire weight penalty though. still love my 6, just need to fix or disconnect the passenger door sub.  any good advice to get this fixed by mazda,even though it happened after the mile warranty would be appreciated.

i bet the mpg difference is the gearing plus "lockup ratio" difference from auto to manual...

that power is even better than what i had in my '83 regal wagon... a 2x or 3x the gears. lol

so when will the Cyclone make a grand re-entrance?

use the principal of subsidiarity for taxes.

all hail the power of the state!  haha... still not really that much.

think perhaps the 2.5L may have some mazda tech in it... because of the scion iA  that's now a ...yaris?

20 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Because while its great to have low interest rates when I buy big ticket items for myself...at this point in my life, it would be better if high interest rates would be available to me for the money I have earned and saved, high interest rates dont exist because it protects those fools that part with their money easily...

@A Horse With No Name

“The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.”

- Adam Smith

off the top of my head, since our family had one,  '91 camaro RS...ok, so maybe this wan't rated over 200...

we did have a couple w-bodys, but i'd go with some super charged one.

i like the grill change... iffy on the "chin".

Yay for the diesel! Hopefully the oil issue has been corrected and power figures are very close to overseas.

not that i plan to buy a new car again anytime soon, but looking forward to what the next 6 holds... and bring a wagon too Mazda!

1 thing, if the car is parked, how often will a tesla be outside and not parked in a garage?

but otherwise cool...be using solar city tech i'm sure.

BAS is the future... or was... GM was ahead of their time.   

your pics of the center stack, that's a nicer layout than the '13 i know. hers is not very intuitive, i think. while also being quite busy with a more phone like dialer/ button area. like below.

  the '13 has a small, idk, divot for change and stuff hanging on the left side of the shifter area. as shown it the pic above.

my g/f has a 13 focus. that transmission is a source of issues. very annoying issues, but not tragic ones.

10 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Mazda has done excellent work along just this line.

The devil is in the details. I really like some of the small displacement Turbo stuff. I want to drive a JCW 2017 Mini really badly.

 

But yes, the trend can go too far, and I think we need to see a bit more displacement.

about mazda, yeah, but just make a mazda3 speed already?! haha.
I do like the torque peak mine has at 3250... it can tool around in 5th from 30-40mph fairly well.and if the road is flat estimates at 60MPG on my DIC is common.

be interesting if mazda skipped the 2.0L and turboed the 1.5L for ~150HP... just because.. hehe. you think that'd be better than the 2.0L in the MX-5?

most of us probably remember Dwightlooi's many technicals about large displacement, low piston count engines and such...  good times, and interesting.

22 minutes ago, regfootball said:

1.5 in my malibu is pretty good little small displacement mill and actually gets pretty good mpg.  would love the power of a 2.0 but it would suck lots more gas.  A 1.75 turbo would be about perfect.

Like the turbo mid range punch so much, driving the pentastar van makes me think the midrange is sluggish on it.  Ford Edge sport has the 2.7 turbo v6, but that isn't super on gas either.  Wonder if a 2.5 turbo 6 wouldn't be a great mill for good power and mpg mix for vans and SUV's

why not an atkinson cycle ~3L I4 using ~2.6L of it with a low/medium pressure turbo probably good for 230+HP possible, but really good low/mid torque and decent FE...?

perhaps Europe will reconsider it's displacement tax?

my mazda's was like 479 for ~25K, 5 years

refied down to ~356 for 5.5 years, but am at pace to pay it off in the original 5 years.

20 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

VTEC + Turbo equals a million horsepower per liter and the best gas mileage ever.  

 

In all seriousness, I think the 1.5L makes an impressive amount of power for a small engine, and probably will post a high fuel economy number too.  I don't get why you have 2 engine choices with basically the same power output.  It seems redundant.  It would have made more sense to offer the 1.5L turbo and a 1.9 liter turbo with like 220 hp as an option.  Other than that it looks like a CR-V and the inside looks nice for the class, I am sure they will sell tons of them.

about close engine horse power... ask that about the sonic, the cruze.... and other GM vehicles for comparison...

balth.. it's TomTom.... just sayin.