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I always have something to say. Even when I dont. I always have an opinion about something, even when I dont. Its a curse!!! But I always try to keep myself informed.

I got nothing to contribute to this thread because: 1. "entry level" luxury to me sounds silly. 2. This particular Mercedes on paper sounds like a good idea, its just that Im not interested in it. 3. As an AMG, a turbo 4 making 300 HP and 300 ft.lbs of torque is not special enough as lowly Ford does it... For me, Mercedes should ditch this idea that this Mercedes is an AMG and should just sell it as a Mercedes. 4. We are bitchin' about GM's 3.6 when Nissan's 3.7 is equivalent in power and torque yet nobody on this site seems to bitch about Nissan's "lack of torque" on that engine. 5. Acura's V6 at 3.5 liters also makes about the same power numbers, yet nobody on this site bitches about Acura...Toyota's V6 also makes comoparable numbers. 6. Mercedes offers turbocharged 4 cylinder engines in their equivalent (3.6 liter V6 GM competition) rides that make...just as much ft.lbs of torque (273) yet nobody bitches about how that number is not sufficient, or worse, ya'll seem satisfied in how we are all forced to believe that 4 cylinder engines are the shyte. I dont care if these 4 cylinder cars are turbocharged, making 300 HP and 300 ft.lbs of torque, and I dont care if these are necessary for CAFE reasons...Im having a great deal of difficulty understanding your beef with a naturally aspirated V6...making sufficient amounts of horsepower and torque for every day driving duties... 7. This is why GM, Infiniti and Acura havent ditched these V6s just yet, because they are pretty good in what they are supposed to be doing. Which are pretty much better in doing what a turbocharged 4 cylinder engine replacing them is doing... 8. We are all pushed into turbocharged 4 cylinders, I would be having a beef with that, instead of bitching about something trivial as a naturally aspirated V6 not making enough torque, because in the real world of driving, naturally aspirated V6s seems best... And although Im liking the idea of a turbocharged 4 cylinder engine making 300 horsepower and 300 ft.lbs of torque and Im liking that idea in a Mustang or Camaro or even in that Mercedes Benz CLA sedan, Id rather have a GM, Acura and Infiniti NATURALLY ASPIRATED 3,5 or 3.7 liter V6 making 300 horses and 275-285 ft.lbs of torque... So it may seem I got something to say, I really dont. Im just perplexed by some in this thread...so instead of causing a commotion about it... I will troll anyway, but I will troll this way instead So tell us, hot HOT do you think that hatch really is, big boy? Is it, THIS hot?

I did not recognize the name nor the group. Google. It turns out I know (and love) the songs Whiter Shade of Pale and Conquistador. But it also turns out that those are the only songs I know from them.

Season #2 for hockey has started. And like a crazed addict hooked on some sort of...natural herbs and powders, I was switching from game to game yesterday. I wasnt disappointed because most of the games were...awesome! I found the Preds versus Stars game boring, so I was clicking less on that one to watch the Sharks and the Golden Knights play. But the earlier games were all awesome. Twists and turns galore.

I needed to get some 1960s bubble gum rock going in my head. When I found this modern version and decided I needed to share. And then going down further into the internet wormhole I ended up getting to this song... and video which I also needed to share.

So...nothing on the news that is reported, anybody could formulate an opinion... Like I said... I wrote a 1000 word essay ranting... I gave links as to why I feel this way... And YOU, righteously, just harp on 1 word... But you ignore the other 999 words....including the links I gave... I think that its YOU that does not know what an opinion is... An EDUCATED opinion... But its OK...what you are doing now is called trolling....even with your latest response to me... @Drew Dowdell is allowing you to do it...go right ahead. Troll away. If that brings you happiness in life.

No need. Despite you thinking otherwise, I really dont give a shyte you or your "opinion". But...when you answer me with a righteous dumb assed tone, make sure you back up your "opinions" with some sort of reason of why you feel that way, a link, an anecdote, something, or else I WILL call you up on your trolling...

I gave you MY opinion... WITH HOW I GOT THERE You did not...meaning...your opinion just becomes trolling... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Internet Troll Internet Troll A person whose sole purpose in life is to seek out people to argue with on the internet over extremely trivial issues. Such arguments can happen on blogs, Facebook, Myspace and a host of others. The best thing you can do to fight an internet troll is to not answer..or report them. "God, Jeromy won't stop posting about Larry's bad spelling in that conversation." "Yeah, I know, what a Internet Troll." #internet#troll#facebook#web#douchbag by Person#98765 June 21, 2009 593199 Get a Internet Troll mug for your girlfriend Rihanna. 2 Internet Troll An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disruptnormal on-topic discussion. To be a good Internet Troll you must copy and paste this definition all over the internet. #internet#troll#flam

https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/europe-slams-latest-us-tariff-094542749.html Double standards Both sides have now been found guilty of paying billions of dollars of subsidies to gain advantage in the global aircraft manufacturing business. The EU is still waiting to hear from the WTO about what "retaliation rights" it has after the organization found in 2012 that Boeing too had received billions of dollars in illegal subsidies that had been to the detriment of Airbus. The WTO also ruled in March that the U.S. had failed to comply fully with its earlier ruling to remove all illegal subsidies that Boeing had received. The European Commission source also signaled Tuesday that Brussels is ready to retaliate in kind, noting that in the parallel Boeing dispute, "the determination of EU retaliation rights is also coming closer and the EU will request the WTO-appointed arbitrator to determine the EU's retaliation rights." Some analysts have accused the U.S. of double standards. GAM's Investment Director for Global Equities, Ali Miremadi, said the U.S.' tariff proposal was "quite bold." "I have to say the country which is the home to Boeing accusing Europe of state subsidies for Airbus — this is quite bold," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Tuesday. "It's very well established that both Boeing and Airbus exist only at the discretion of their respective hosts or host governments."

because you are a troll... Because 24 hours later, you are still a troll, continuing on to troll...??‍♂️ 24 hours later, and you responded with a laughy vote and 24 hours later you respond back with this shyte and yet, 24 hours later, there is still no clear opinion on this matter...other than its your opinion...

No. Not me. But that quote was me paraphrasing what CCAP might be saying as his rebuttal to me regarding Boeing. I am genuine with me talks with you guys in here and for better or worse, my emotions too.

Boeing is a damned good aircraft manufacturing company. The 737 is one of the best built and safest aircraft in the world EVER. The 747 too. But, Airbus, despite their snafu on miscalculating the business model on the A380 and Boeing hitting it on the nail with the Dremliner, Airbus is cleaning their clock! So much so that Canadair, (Bombardier Aerospace) also is threatening a small portion of Boeing's market with the C Series. Therefore, Boeing's last two last business decisions, (one to try to discredit Bombardier and got US courts involved in lies, and rushing the Max 8 to market) scream desperation to me. In the end, the C Series was bought in partnership by Airbus and sometime in the near future, Airbus will solely own this plane and it cost Airbus peanuts to acquire... An incredible aircraft that is sorely needed in a very fast growing market that neither Boeing or Airbus had an answer to, Boeing was afraid of a very small potato player and in haste, made their situation worse because their REAL competitor acquires this airplane for peanuts. Bombardier spent the BILLIONS to develop it, spent billions to make it super safe, spent billions certifying it, all on Canadian tax payer money that Bombardier did pay off, but made many many Canadians angry, and Airbus now owns it partially and will eventually own it outright when Bombardier could not build too many too quickly because Bombardier does not have that kind of manufacturing ability, but Airbus does... And this latest sad news of the Max 8 not being ready for commercial flight. Sad news for the families that lost people, and sad news because this is going to cost billions to Boeing. And maybe airlines will think twice to buy Boeing aircraft... They just handed Airbus many many markets... Boeing had a spotless record. That is a rare occurrence in the aircraft industry. In any industry. Too bad haste decisions took the better of them. Yup...I could attest to that. And you are right, nobody has died eating my food. My partner and I have high quality food standards. We are not in business to poison anybody. We are here to make a buck or two, make a few friends along the way and help our community. You are absolutely right. But my passion runs deep sometimes and my emotions get the better of me. And this is why I went haywire. Because I did not appreciate his tone. I practically wrote a 1000 word essay ranting on economic and social woes that we are facing with examples and links and he chose cherry picked a very subtle and mundane thing try to discredit me. That Boeing engineers knowingly... THAT was his counter point, that no engineer KNOWINGLY does something bad... THAT was his beef...his trolling, his downvotes. Ignoring what I posted as links. Not even throwing a rebuttal of any kind but going with a general statement of there are no facts of this so I dont believe what you say. Basically his whole argument is: I waste my time visiting automotive websites and I choose to be a douche to posters when I see a semantic quality I could attack on because anything that is written on an automotive website is mostly heresay anyway with no proof...

Hey...this body shell is still sexy AF. I like the Model S and all, but the Model S is really showing its age right about now. The Model 3 is fresher. Even if its smaller and similar looking to the Model S, the Model S is long in the tooth the design department. And that is even if you like the Model 3 design or not... But the Karma Fisker/Revero still looks good. Both came out about the same time, non? The new body shell would be a great idea for Bob Lutz to use and update his company's model for a Blackwing V8. Or really go medieval and ditch GM and get a Hellcat crate engine. Or really really go bat$h! crazy and get the Hellephant crate engine for it... But I wished the Revero was a 100% battery electric vehicle more than anything less at this point...

I had this Sony 40XBR700 HDTV. Bought it 5000 dollars CDN when Plasmas of the time cost 10 000. Still a ton of money for nothing. The TV didnt even last me a decade. It was a fantastic TV. Nothing compared to a 1080P or a 4K, OLED or whatever there is today, but was very comparable to a 1080i. But 5000 motherphoquing dollars that did not last me a decade. It broke a little less than a year before my mom passed away. Then I inherited my moms Sony 50 inch 1080P that she bought for 1000 dollars 3 or 4 years before she passed away. I made my parents by a SONY 32 inch HD tv in the late 1990s and THAT TV did not last my parents a decade and hence why my mom bought that 50 incher....which I now use. Low and behold, that 50 inch Sony is holding up OK and its nearing that 10 year mark... Anyway...just to say that I am never ever again buying a mega expensive television set. Ive learned my lesson for keeping up with the Joneses and having the latest toy... NOT important. Money inn the bank is much more important. I would LOVE to own a 65 inch QLED TV, but no way in hell am I gonna buy something that exopensive ever again. I got the money to do so...but I am not a fool no more to part with my money! I read soemthing like 2 weeks ago or so that maybe you are thinking about getting a smart phone? You may find a smart phone useful in your everyday life. They are that good and multi-purpose. They are NOT a waste of money...IF you have a need for one. Business...to have access to the internet and to use the internet and top communicate and to upload files and to use not only as a phone, but as a pocket computer... But...if you dont need one...an old school flip phone still can do the job... I question MANY people today, in 2019, that own smart phones if they really truly need to be connected to the net 24/7 365...even if we are....in 2019...

Havent most if not all Americans of a certain wealth have bought big screen TVs? I mean, how many big flat TVs does an American household need to own? I mean, does an American household need to continuously spend every last cent they make on big screen TVs or any other consumer gadget? I mean, when can an American household free itself from over spending? Can an American household EVER be free of the shackles of consumer consumption? I mean, I know the American economy goes round and round with the consumption of consumer goods, but ya'll dont see how destructive it is when any money back that is given from any source is immediately calculated on how the American consumer MUST give it back through consumption? Yes! people SHOULD be saving more!!! People should be spending less. A lot less than they have! Its a myth that the American economy needs to be successful by having Americans OVERconsume... There was once upon a time where the American economy thrived by having Americans be SMART about their finances and NOT be consuming voraciously... Coincidentally, that was the time period when the President is referring to as making America Great Again I get the socio-political innuendo that that entails, but, at THAT point in time, the American household was more fiscally responsible... Why does today's world involve big business and corporations to rule over us? Why does every last red cent the American household makes and saves be tallied as and compared to and analyzed as how much the American household should be spending? On big ticket items? I make and save 5 bucks, but I have to fork it over to some phoquing corporation and buy something and put me into debt? The government cut me a check for 50 bucks, but now, I have to spend it on a 2000 dollar big ticket item for the benefit of a corporation? Is this what it is Im reading here? No wonder Im all pissy today! No wonder why @ccap41 is brainwashed and doesnt believe Boeing CEOs and engineers could NOT possibly know they did something wrong to kill hundreds of people...

No @Drew Dowdell I wont let it go! The Mexico thread really ticked me off with @ccap41's fake , trolly, righteousness. And here he goes again doing the same shyte! You knew Drew, you banned me for a week for being less abusive to @Paolino last year than what @ccap41 is doing here today with TWO posters...me and @dfelt. Send him a phoquing message to STOP trolling!

Like I said... You do nothing but try to pick fights with people... You are a troll... Why dont you contribute to the phoquing thread instead of trying to be an internet social warrior? Who the phoque cares what Dfelt says about Ferrari? Your first contribution to this thread is to try to stick it to DFELT. Have a conversation with him. But NO! You want to stick it to him! What are you gonna do? Get @Drew Dowdell to make me stop harassing you? PHOQUE YOU! Downvote this post to if you wanna. I dont care. But Im gonnna expose your troll ass today though!

@ccap41 You think your downvotes bother me? Because in the past it did? Like I said...you are a troll to nth degree. Keep those downvotes coming bud! But do not counter in any way or show any proof like I did on why you believe what you believe in... YOU IGNORANT BLIND PHOQUING TROLL!!!

of course you downvote @ccap41 You got nothing else on your trolling! Your actions and reactions speak louder than your words...

Yeah... Drew came to your rescue...and you take it so you wont be looked at like a troll... What you may or may not know...troll... That the aircraft industry does NOT work that way... NEGLIGENCE is NOT part of the equation... When a plane goes down, NEGLIGENCE SHOULD NOT BE PART OF THE EQUATION... Certification of aircraft PREVENTS negligence and cost cutting...THAT is the mission of certification. Safety for the plane NOT to fail on information that we already know that have failed in the past... Past aircraft failures are part of the engineering process to prevent for future failures. And a software glitz with sensors that fail should have been detected in the certification process... When an aircraft fails, an FAA investigation tries to see if a new problem arises, not to correct a past failure...again... THAT is how aircraft investigations and certifications are made.... The article here... https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/ Once again, suggests that Boeing rushed the 737 Max 8 to sell because of a threat of market share loss to Airbus... And all the other articles I posted after the 2nd crash reveal something sinister in Boeing's management of the 737 Max 8. And the FAA too. believe what you wanna believe, troll... BUT DONT YOU PHOQUING QUESTION MY OPINION WHEN YOU DONT HAVE NOTHING ON YOUR END AGAIN!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN DREW GAVE YOU AN OUT JUST NOW!!! PHOQUE YOU!!!

but this aint the automotive industry Drew. Nothing is supposed to be rushed, or cheapened in this industry. Millions of dollars are spent in testing all facets of engineering in this industry to avoid and try to prevent a series of unfortunate events. And although Boeing did not engineer a death trap on purpose, they rushed the certification. FAA allowed this too. When both Max 8s crashed, Boeing knew then that there is something wrong... I don tknow that...I wasnt there....sure... You could argue me on that....that is what CCAP the troll is doing... But, the way CCAP is not lending out his REAL opinions fly on the matter is telling me on how you also feel about this... A series of misfortunate events... But this is the aircraft industry. It simply is not allowed to be that way... This IS criminal... He is saying this sarcastically to me... But you better PHOQUING BELIEVE IT THIS IS CRIMINAL... Here, the #FAKENEWS article...because CCAP does not believe... https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/ Let the investigations do their thing...and if anything at all will come out of it because the FAA might be in danger too...and well, the FAA may too big to fail let alone Boeing...

No you didnt...you trolled.

Drew...his righteousness gone long enough. He never gave a counterpoint, nor proof. I gave MULTIPLE LINKS. I dont care if I persuade him or not... He phoquing insults me...my wordy-ness on which I gave links as to why I think this way... He just wants to troll to use a play on words...KNOWINGLY... And yet...I even gave proof of why Boeing CEOs and engineers MIGHT KNOWINGLY have done this... But...he is righteous...isnt he? PHOQUE HIM!!! HE IS A TROLL!!! Not because he believes what ever the phoque he believes, he wants to argue on a play on words...KNOWINGLY.. And he...does not even offer a counterpoint, just casually states his opnion that he does not believe KNOWINGLY, and yet,,,a new article from SEATTLE... Boeing Everett plant is close to Seattle...may insinuate something I am insinuating...in fact, I made my opinion from that article a while ago... Drew...if we cant discuss things, dont tell me...muzzle him... I GAVE PROOF ON HOW I FEEL THIS WAY... HE DID NOT!!! THAT IS TROLLING 101!!! YEAH! PHOQUE HIM!!!

My wordy-ness... GO PHOQUE YOURSELF!!! https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/ PS: YOUR OPINION MEANS SHYT AS ITS FLAWED!!! ITS WRONG!!! YOU NEED A LOLLIPOP TO DEAL WITH IT???!!!

But yeah... You are both correct that the Boeing CEO took responsibility, not admit guilt and tell that he knew that there is something wrong...which I gave a link too in my first post, and yeah...this investigation is not in courts...and no results have been made...yet..if ever... Like there is no smoking gun to talk about... Instead, focus on a play on words... So...I guess you believe that Boeing just made a small innocent mistake, right? The way you wanna answer me...