Drew Dowdell
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Do a Shift-Refresh now and see if it changed. Let me know either way please.
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Odd... I've disabled the feature called "sticky header" specifically for that reason. Maybe the cache needs to be updated.
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So.. I'm not exactly thrilled with this skin, but the last one had to go as I was getting too many reports of the old one not rendering properly. I may start testing another skin soon. Thoughts?
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Depends on where they are being built. The VWs sold in the US that are built in Mexico tend to have terrible reliability and quality issues. Some VWs come from Europe and the seem to do better. The US Passat is built in Tennessee and from my observations has excellent build quality and reliability. Some of the materials seems a little on the cheap side, but that is a design choice made by VW, not a manufacturing issue. -
The only problem I have with the Sonic being on this list is that it is being compared to cars like the Versa and Fiesta which are both smaller and in many cases cheaper. Of course it is going to be heavy compared to those two. But it also has great crash scores and one of the best roof crush tests this side of a Tesla, and is positively Buick like compared those others when it comes to road/wind noise.
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If no one has any issues with the newer look, I'm going to push it out to the entire userbase by the end of the week. I am just waiting on one graphic change from Dodgefan.
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I'll say this... it looks like it rides much higher in the press photos than it seems to in person. It seems fairly normal in person and only if you step back to look at it next to a normal S60 does one really notice the change.
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No need for Wifi. The cars have C2C communication.
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No, they should be on reasonable wages. The ones in Dublin only managed to get such high wages because they have a very strong workers' union and they managed to strong arm the local leaders into giving them a lot of what they were asking for. Yet $50,000 Euro's at todays conversion equals $56,220 US Dollars a Year. That is really not that much. Bus drivers in the US here are in the news due to earning $100,000 US dollars a year or $88,936.32 Euro's. That is pretty crazy for driving a bus. Some make even more with the crazy amount of overtime. The $100k ones are usually clearing that after overtime.... that's not their base. Typical base salary in my area seems to be about $60k a year, but starting wage is $17.05 an hour after your training period ends( About $35k a year assuming no overtime) . During the training period, you only make $10 an hour. If you do a lot of overtime because your collegues call in sick... then yes you should be compensated for it. If you're dedicated, never call in sick, and take lots of overtime, I see no problem with a bus driver making $100k... they did the hours for it... pay them.
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No, they should be on reasonable wages. The ones in Dublin only managed to get such high wages because they have a very strong workers' union and they managed to strong arm the local leaders into giving them a lot of what they were asking for. That seems like a very reasonable wage to me.
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The biggest cost in batteries is in the materials, which China at the moment has a head start on.
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Well there are a few hints as to where Tesla is going. The front motor in the double motor Model S can be plucked out and used in the rear of a smaller/cheaper car. I have a feeling that we could be seeing the preview of what is to come already.
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I'm not 100% sure that's going to be the name... that is just how it is being referred to in the press currently. There has been no display of such a car as of yet.
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Self driving cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to make fewer mistakes than humans do. Unfortunately, they could cut fatalities by 2/3s and the families of those who did die would sue the auto maker.
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I'm wondering if you misspoke Balth? Did you mean the Model 3? The Model 3 is the $35,000 base price sedan. The Model X is the gull wing SUV... and that was predicted to be in the $50k - $60k range.
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Wait.. a new Mirage? Already? Mitsubishi should partner with Suzuki to sell the next Kazashi in the US. The last Kazashi would have made a great Galant.
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Why is what ridiculous? Should bus drivers only be on poverty wages? Its is long, hard, exhausting work that is potentially hazardous to your health.
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Not sure why this ended in the wrong forum. It has since been moved.
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Blake's 2012 Ram 1500 Midnight Express review is one of the most read reviews on the site and still pulls in a lot of hits from Google
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Leave no niche unturned.
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Great points, but I'm betting that it would be standalone in architecture only. The nicest Cadillac dealer in my area is technically a "standalone" on a campus of car dealerships. They're all owned by the same group, but they look like separate dealers. For service, you drive your Cadillac into a garage (the door opens automatically as you pull up and closes after you pull in). Then you walk in to talk to the service advisor. Then while you're in the Cadillac lounge, a service tech comes and shuttles your car to the main campus garage. When your car is done, it's brought back to the same garage for pickup. Doing it this way satisfies both ends of the equation. Keeps the Cadillac customers from having to interact with the commoners and yet allows for the economies of scale of a dealership with all brands. This dealership campus consists of Cadillac, Buick, GMC (used to also have Pontiac, Saab, Hummer, Suzuki, and Saturn). Subaru, Hyundai, and Fiat. Pontiac simply vacated the Buick GMC building. Saab vacated the Saab/Cadillac building and Cadillac took the whole thing over. Subaru took over the Hummer building (looks quite appropriate too). Hyundai moved into the Saturn building, and Fiat took Hyundai's old spot.
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I drove by there tonight. The actual dealership is in the former Princeton Lexus building behind the Denny's. They're just using the Denny's parking lot for excess inventory. It does look pretty bad though, they should just level the building as it blocks the view of the Porsche building.
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You should join up, post pics, and add it to the CheersandGears.com Garage!
