Also keep in mind that net or gross wasn't mentioned, and in reporter-speak '4 tons' could be anything from 3-5.
The only weight that is valid when talking about vehicle weight is the curb weight. Anything else is just jerking off. Of course, this is modern journalism we're talking about...
The oldest Leaf is like 3.5 years old now. How could you possibly know that the suspension will require a rebuild before the battery goes?
They didn't just pull this battery chemistry out of their assholes, you know. And the suspension isn't based on new principles either, which is my point. They know that rubber bushings will fail. They also know that polyurethane bushings won't (unless subjected to the kind of abuse that would certainly obliterate a rubber bush) and that's why they don't use them. And by "they" I mean automakers, not Nissan.
The cars are designed to be cheap to build, easy to put together, difficult to service (small and inexpensive changes would make service vastly easier on most vehicles) and guaranteed to disintegrate. Cars are just made to fail, and they're made that way on purpose. We have better designs and/or materials for pretty much everything which does typically fail, which simply aren't used. EPDM breather hoses crack and fail, silicone will last damned near forever anywhere but on the sleeve directly connected to my turbocharger. There's a plastic coolant tube between the engine block an the oil cooler on the A8, about two inches long, which always breaks. There's just no reason for it not to be made of Aluminum. Thousand dollar service job to have the oil cooler pulled out. None of this is by accident.
Personally I'm hoping by the time my leaf lease is up, there will be a Tesla model that has the same sort of affordability, as they do not have a dealership network to try and support with these sort of shenanigans.
No, but you do have to pay your yearly contract fee to Tesla if you want to maintain your warranty.
Now, what if Joe Smith from Arkansas is sitting right next to OBL building IEDs?
You've caught him red-handed. You have plenty of evidence to show that he was in fact actively aiding the enemy. Take a picture before you shoot him, for fuck's sake. Indeed, your gun should do that automatically. What fucking year is it?
Now, lose OBL and it's just Joe the Terrorist from Arkansas in an Al Qaeda camp?
Well, how do you know it's an Al Qaeda camp? Seems like while all this intelligence-gathering has been going on, you could engage in some legal process.
It's supposed to be difficult and expensive to kill people. Ideally, you come up with some other solution to your problems. You're supposed to think, hmm, war is hell, so I don't want to actually come to that pass. How can I avoid getting there? Instead, it has become due process is expensive, so how can I avoid it?
Bullshit. The so-called "drug problem" is 99% caused by prohibition itself [citation needed].
As an anonymous coward, there is no "you", and so "you" don't get to ask for citations, because you don't exist. You do, however, get to provide your own citations which contradict any and all of their points, and then it's up to them to provide citations which contradict theirs. Simply saying "citation needed" when you don't even have the courage of convictions needed to associate your demand with an identity is, for lack of a more accurate term, a complete bitch move.
My guy? Who said Obama is my guy? I am only pointing out that people who are up in arms about what he is doing were, for the most part, completely silent when Bush did it.
Well, I for one was vocal about Bush, and I was vocal about his father, and I am vocal about Obama. I'm just not as vocal as some of these guys.
What I'm frankly tired of is people who act like the president is the problem. He's just one little piece of the problem. Just one man. He reads from the script like everyone else.
If you're going to claim to be thinking bigger than some "idiots", why not really think big and justify the epithet?
Yes, but he also said that his Baker Electric is his absolute favorite. And it's an EV with similar-era styling to the POS discussed in this article.
You, uh, don't take the bus very often, do you?
WTF?
I haven't seen any public bus, in any city I've lived, with seatbelts, without sideways seats (at least in the back), without standing room, or that stays at less than 30 MPH.
Have you seen any without sides?
Frankly, I am surprised they garner as much attention as they do.
They had to resort to taking advantage of naive young women and locking them naked in cages on public streetcorners to remain relevant, so I consider them to be broadly considered to be a lunatic fringe group. Slashdot just likes to mention PETA because froth.
Funnily, they send the horses to the slaughter in mexico which has zero standards on how the horse are to be treated.
Or they're slaughtered by Mexicans living right here in the US of A. They seem to be willing to mob up and buy property together. We've got several such settlements in my neighborhood. All clean and orderly, no problems. The biggest messes and the most visits from code enforcement are from/to an old entitled white guy who's the scion of one of the old families here.
Depends on the company. I know of a few companies that take horses whose owners can no longer afford to own them, and train those to pull carriages (so they already have a second lease on life). At the end of their service, they're put out to pasture at a petting/riding farm.
This definitely isn't how all carriage businesses work, but a growing number do.
That's only because economic recovery is a dirty lie, and there's simply free horses available. There was a veritable torrent of free horses a couple years back. I live in the country, so I see these things... And there's still no shortage of free horses.
Most activists hate PETA for the same reason you do, but don't think that there aren't plenty of farm sanctuaries out there that would skip a beat to take care of one of these animals.
In fact, there aren't. All the ones that wanted one already got one in the great horse apocalypse. It's still going on to a degree now, but it's not like it was at its peak a couple years ago when I drove past a trailer store and they had their sign configured to say "FREE HORSE WITH EVERY TRAILER". Some idiots still think their horse shits gold and that they will recoup their investment, but in general you can still get horses for free if you're not too picky.
However, there's lots of immigrants who don't have the same cultural compunctions about eating horse meat that we do, so a lot of those free horses are not going to loving homes. Welcoming, yes. Loving, not so much.
The ones with big teeth and long claws can do that. Pretty much all the others forage 24/7
It's too bad you don't have a yard in the country, so that you would know what goes on in them. Deer lie down in mine all the time. Well, they did before the coyotes moved into the neighborhood in force.
I also like how they make out '4 tons' like it's a big deal - that's 9k pounds, yes, but a plain old passenger van starts out at 7k pounds, for one that only seats 8. 8.6k for one that seats 15.
No, no in fact, it does not. A plain old passenger van starts out at 5,224 pounds. That right there is probably the most popular passenger van in history, that ol' E-150. The E-Series was supposed to be dead by this year, but too many crotchety old fuckers screamed about it for that to happen, so it's still around.
My 1992 F250 Super Cab 4x4 XLT 7.3 with a turbo kit weighs someplace around 6800 wet. 9000 pounds is in fact a staggeringly heavy vehicle.
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