I start with drying my anus and work in concentric circles out from that, so yes, my face is about last

Eh, I was quite happy with my 3800 Buick LeSabre with the front bench seat, but I know that was an outlier for GM even in 2002

Why would anyone buy a GM product made within the past 20 years and expect a good experience??? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

Everyone wants “[thing], cheaper,” and forty years ago, it was Japan, sixty, West Germany. Hell, China doesn’t even make most of the disposable junk you think of when you hear “Made in China” these days, their manufacturing has matured past that and most of that injection-molded, high-tolerance, lowest-bidder stuff has been shipped further down SEA.

“The Chinese” =/= China’s economic exports.

Yeah dude, it’s racist to say “the Chinese make bad quality products” as if race has anything to do with it. It’s just basic economics and the country’s found a (apparently very profitable) niche. You’re a fool to believe that “the Chinese” can’t make high-quality, premium stuff domestically.

I love thinly veiled racism. As if the American automakers aren’t building their cars out of 90% “Chinesium” anyway

“Good thing the US government will just bail us out whenever we need it and we can just lobby to make it illegal to sell them here.”

Man it’s a 4 hour video. Of a review of a hotel. At no point in modern history was that the kind of thing that many people had the attention span to watch

Agreed. I’m a lifetime PS fan going all the way back to nearly 30 years but Sony has completely turned me off to the idea of ever buying another console from them again. My PS5 (disc version) is probably my biggest financial regret of the last two years

They’re good, premium feeling, notebooks. I filled several of them when I was younger and in college

GL with registration and insurance tho. I tried really hard to get a MX market Hilux a few years ago. Only way to get one on the road legally is to modify it enough so that it becomes a “custom vehicle” so that it can get a new VIN created for it.

I don’t even know where you’d start that process for a EV, where drivetrain swaps aren’t really possible.

Probably sponsored by a local Church. I’m sure that prisons in areas with large Jewish, Muslim, etc. populations have similar programs.

Talking out of my ass here, I can’t imagine it would be that difficult for someone to get a holy book from a different religion, though

I pre-ordered one (1) game ever and that was Watch_Dogs in 2013 for the PS3. Was enough to teach me to never do that again

I don’t know of anything but this sounds like something I could use a lot too, so I’m commenting to remember to check this thread later

Damn, why’s this so downvoted?

It would be cool if any other vehicle on the US market could hit the same balance of performance, range, speed, price, etc.

It could and the US government has explicitly banned that from happening because it would put the “legacy” (and what legacy is that, exactly?") automakers out of business overnight.

Money they don’t have on things they don’t need

Don, I’m really rooting for you here but you need to proofread your posts before you submit them. That title makes no sense for people just scrolling through

I’m sitting at my desk rn looking at my Mitsubishi VCR

Not necessarily although I hadn’t heard of Saudi Aramco until your comment.

In western terms, the Keiretsu combined vertical and horizontal integration; only a handful of companies owned almost every level of production and had “gentleman’s agreements” to avoid heavy competition with one-another. What makes the Keiretsu unique is that the companies were chosen and consolidated by the US government and structured to be sympathetic to America and unlikely to rebuild the Imperial Army. Former fighter plane manufacturers were made into electric keyboard makers, rifle companies became borers for motors for small cars, etc. It’s why you get scenarios like the OP meme