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Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show (KMED) 8/21/19

eric - August 21, 2019

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Soy Soup

eric - August 21, 2019

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Reader Question: Why do I Buy It?

eric - August 21, 2019

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If “Emissions” Actually Mattered . . .

eric - August 20, 2019

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Reader Question: Tech for its Own Sake?

eric - August 20, 2019

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Reader Question: Fiero Musings?

eric - August 19, 2019

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HOTCARS Are Coming

eric - August 19, 2019

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Broken Tail Light Hut! Hut! Hut!

eric - August 18, 2019

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Reader Question: One More Bullet?

eric - August 18, 2019

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Reader Question: Air Bag Disconnect?

eric - August 17, 2019

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The Handler: Many of the whites I see on a daily basis have no business reproducing. They’re either hardcore trash (druggies) or...
Guerrero: The new FORD 7.3 gas engine is rated at 400 foot pounds of torque at 1500 rpm. It looks to be a throwback to better days and...
Eightsouthman: I reckon I’ve had few “legal” vehicles…..damn few.
Anonymous: Exactly right. Revoke consent. Make them resort to violence, because that’s the only real tool they have at their...
Jeremy: Ken, No “race” has ever accomplished anything, individuals, working alone or with others, have. This should not be a...
Anonymous: Great article Eric. I really hope all of this leads to some new startups that have the balls to stick a big fat middle finger...
ken: So that would imply that being proud to be Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Latino, African, Japanese, etc is also ludicrous? A nation can...
Jeremy: Hi Doug, You entirely missed Jason’s point. Individual people and groups of individuals working together have achievements,...
Jason Flinders: Come on Doug, that trap wasn’t meant for you. I said that only because the very concept is collectivist. Races...
Jeremy: Hey Eight, Yep, I don’t get the vicarious, collective guilt or pride stuff. Feeling either proud or ashamed of the...
Douglas L Self: If you live in the USA, you live in a country that is what it is PRECISELY due to the “White Race”, for bad...
Jason Flinders: Yes, it’s a Chrysler TorqueFlite A727, mated to an AMC 360 V8. This was the gold standard in automatic...
Douglas L Self: Whenever I hear of HR, instinctively I recoil (much like the late Herr Goering, when he heard the term...
Eightsouthman: My deceased FIL bought a K car and then a Grenada. I believe the Kcar was better since it cost nearly nothing. The Grenada...
Douglas L Self: Yes! And doing a fluid/filter change at 5 years or 60K miles is a PRUDENT measure for the gear box on that Matador (not...
Eightsouthman: Jeremy, I was in Mexico 15 years ago and some of the people were spitting something I couldn’t understand. When I...
Eightsouthman: T, yep, tires are very expensive now. If you can get a set of 10 ply load range E for less than $1400 you might want to...
Jason Flinders: Not really a new idea, the owner’s manual for my ’72 Matador specifies no fluid changes required on the...
Jason Flinders: CO2 is not an issue. Continuing to spout elitist lies about it does not make it so.
Jason Flinders: They got a lot out of the K-car platform for sure, I’m just saying that towards the end of his tenure Lido kept...
Jason Flinders: @Shithead Mike Fox-Trot The white race has no achievements.
Eightsouthman: It’s rare to find an Hispanic who doesn’t speak English. I know ones who are freshly here and some whose...
Jeremy: Mike, What a load of collectivist twaddle. If you don’t accept collective guilt (correctly IMO) you can’t bask in...
Jarhead Mike-Foxtrot: Kai Murros; Finnish Philosophy Professor. On White Guilt. The age of guilt is over, we will not apologize for our...
Douglas L Self: That’s my battle plan, now that the “gal-li-money” is starting to wind down, mercifully!
Douglas L Self: The officer was “technically” right to pursue her for refusing to sign the ticket and fleeing....
Douglas L Self: The pedophile Strom was actually borrowing that quote, but even a “pre-vert”, akin to a broken clock telling...
Jeremy: Grwww, “It regrettable how polarized we are on something that seems important to deal with quickly”. As I tried to...
eric: Grwwww… The “reduced costs of ownership”? Are you high? Your compact sized car cost almost $40k. Probably, you...
Douglas L Self: That K-platform was pure GENIUS, Jason, enabling a then-cash starved company to at least fill market niches for not too...
Grwwww: I drive a Tesla Model 3 which now has 50k miles on it. Based on the argument numbers about initial CO2 impact, I am now only...
MikRo: I’m wondering what the environmental impact difference is for the battery replacement for a Prius vs. a Tesla. If Da Bosses...
Douglas L Self: I think I’ll raise Timber Wolves. Fuck “em. (the busybodies, not the wolves, I’m not into THAT…)
Jeremy: Hi Tionico, “Bust THAT huge fraud,and the entire EV/Hybrid controversy falls flat on the floor”. Oh, I wish that were...
Tionico: Yup. The One Ton is the way to go.. far stronger than the 3.4 T versions. By this time next week my E 350 will roll over 360,000...
Douglas L Self: It’s a good thing we each aren’t gay, Eric, b/c you wouldn’t be a “good” date,...
ken: I am actually proud of the achievements of Caucasians. Compared to other races we have made a civilization most want to come to. And...
Tionico: the underlying (pun on the word “lying” intended) fraud driving this whole scam is the false meme that carbon...
Douglas L Self: Ahh…the “plot” is, as more cars have these “tattle boxes”, and with more widespread...
Douglas L Self: Under normal circumstances, the transmission fluid in ANY automatic transmission should not need replacement....
Douglas L Self: In the Western US, there’s a chain of gas/convenience stores known as “Maverik”. At SOME of their...
brazos_bend: FYI, Billy Ford Jr is also a Vegan and is infatuated with the ‘transport’ concept, not cars. Jim Hackett is just...
Jeremy: Grwwww, “Doing something” in the face of significant uncertainty is much more dangerous than doing...
Douglas L Self: Only the clear plastic packaging for me. Invariably when a cut of meat is placed on an opaque foam tray, it’s...
Amy: Ha! We do have a problem with bloodsuckers, although they are not, in the technical sense, actually vampires.
Douglas L Self: If you were working that census in “Tejas”, most Tejanos are long-time US Citizens, many speak no Spanish at...
BrentP: It’s not even warming. All the warming comes from adjustments and estimations. Without those the slight warming goes away....
electronhauler: In 2001, GM (Bob Lutz) thought the idea of a hybrid was lunacy but Toyota (and Honda) went ahead anyway, and showed you...
BrentP: Remember the company town concept? The idea was that the company would manage the lives of the employees. Manage society. Even...
Jimmie S: Great article exposing car company rot.
brazos_bend: I almost like Shiner Black more than regular Shiner
Ernie: A stake holder is a good idea if you have a vampire problem…
brazos_bend: I was about to say that every outdoor store lost their damn mind except Academy (texas outlet).
Mooeing: GM and FORD are trying to make excused for their future falling stock prices when the salls fall finally catches up with the...
Eightsouthman: Here’s another thing people “buy”. It’s even more egregious than EV’s, i.e., gun control. It...
swamprat: I would ask them if the stake costs $9.99 a pound and is wrapped in foam packaging and shrink wrap. I like the idea of the pen...
swamprat: Whitey is living in denial. We are also a minority in this country. I used to take it, but I’m pushing back. I...
Eightsouthman: Swamprat, you are correct in my view. White people, especially in some areas, are very independent. It’s never a...
Eightsouthman: I forgot to address the “forest” problem. I had no idea the Amazon, or any other forest, had previously been...
Eightsouthman: morning eric, Where to start? If virtue signalling were to assert itself like typical explosive diarrhea, we’d need...
eric: Thanks for the catch, Aljer!
AljerHyss: “Cabellas – the outdoor store – signaled the virtue that its customers are not to be allowed firearms.”...
eric: GRwwww, I’m “in touch” – having driven several of the latest – so, spare me. Please. EVs are...
eric: Hi Amy, Amen. I have been where you are now – but it was a little better, then. Just background noise. Today, it’s the...
eric: Grrrrrww, There’s a lot to unpackage here. First, the assertion that the climate is changing. Of course it is. That’s...
Mark in BC: Amen, Amy. I first heard this non-word about twenty years ago. It was usually uttered by people with strong opinions about...
Tionico: Anyone else remember the day when the ideal “city car” was a Mercedes diesel sedan? The plan was to save up enough...
Shotgun Chuck: Because they are still convinced that 1. catastrophe is coming and 2. catastrophe can be averted but only by drastic human...
Shotgun Chuck: @Jason Flinders: I’m not even old – born 1995 – and even I am well used to this sort of rhetoric by now....
Grwwww: What gives me pause is accepting that incomplete, demonstrative proof causes people to give up full stop. The complexity of all...
Amy: I work as a reporter for my city newspaper and cover a lot of business, chamber of commerce, econ-dev stuff. Whenever I hear the...
Grwwww: You sound like you’ve been completely out of touch with what has actually been happening with EVs. Can you share which EVs you’ve...
Jeremy: Hi Jason,; I agree with all you say. However, the proportion of those who knowingly propagate fraud vs those who are genuinely...
ReadyKilowatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=s0YjL9rZyR0 This is a shocking Ted Talk from 2013, where a Chinese apologist makes the...
MarkyMark: The new variable compression engine is an interesting design. I saw a cutaway demo @ the NYC Auto Show 3-4 years ago. It uses...
Blake: Hi Swamp: Background is in mechanical engineering. Did design engineering for Chrysler for a few years, moved to a supplier to do...
Nathan Hail: They have made a deal with the Devil, alright- the Chinese government. The Chinese have decreed that their cars will be...
Bin: I really don’t know what they are planning here, but I doubt it’s good. Are they trying to save face? Upper management...
Anonymous: how did this AG Master manage to pass the physical requirements? ohhhh, bet he knew someone with political power.
ken: From what I can tell,,, Whitey is in denial living in la la land. Good read. https://www.paulcraigrobert...
Douglas L Self: In theory, such a “sniffer”, IF transparent in its application and administration, (i.e., it’s...
Mark3: this is standard. Everyone virtue signals so maybe they can give a tedX speech one day. Government motors should have gone under...
Anonymous: Please, pontificate to your hearts content. And to be clear, “From my comments you can probably figure out what I think...
Jason Flinders: I figured that. 🙂 From my comments you can probably figure out what I think of that and the people who hold such...
Anonymous: OK. You seem pretty sure. “I say that is rubbish. To accept that one must believe that the majority of Americans are...
Jason Flinders: His quote assumes that because there are stupid laws being passed against criticizing a minority group (in this case...
Anonymous: “As I said, his quote is paranoid rubbish.” Really? Seems pretty correct to me. Not following how you think this.
Allen: When I began working, companies had a Personnel Office. Human Resources quietly over the years replaced the title and no one paid...
Jason Flinders: As I said, his quote is paranoid rubbish. What we’re seeing is idiot politicians addressing what they see as a...
Jason Flinders: Jeremy, the reason I call it a fraud is due to my familiarity with the type of people pushing this junk science, and...
Anonymous: “Kevin Alfred Sloan for those not familiar with him is just another bigoted maggot…….” Agreed. But his...
Jason Flinders: That’s ((((one way)))) to look at it. A more rational way is to realize that politicians typically are lacking in...
The Handler: No, it’s on a new RWD unibody platform along the Lincoln Aviator. The new Bronco will be on the same chassis as the...
Anonymous: “To find out who (truly) rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – by Kevin Alfred Strom
swamprat: Are you talking about the Explorer? It seems like the reason that car was made is that they can’t make money just selling...
swamprat: I used to think so, and I largely agree, but compared to others, white folks are generally more freedom loving than others in...
Nanuk: Fucking collectivist monkeys. I bet in 5 years, China will be a better place to live than the Americas and Europe. White people...
swamprat: They don’t know the difference between a market and a can of dogfood.
swamprat: Yeah. I bet that Monsanto was in the business of banning it, too. It just killed the insects, not the ecosystem. Now, we have...
Mark in BC: “If companies fail to recognize that the success of our system is dependent on inclusive long-term growth, many will...

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