Oh yes. So much this. Furthermore, over the last couple of years, I've quite frequently been in a position where I've been running late for work, so in that situation it's extremely annoying to have someone in front of you going not quite the speed limit (or not even close, on the really bad days) and getting you stuck at all the lights. I had at least one incident of lateness where I 100% would have been on time for if someone hadn't got right in front of me and gone 10 under for the last leg of my commute, thereby getting me stuck at a light I otherwise would have made (and the one time it didn't turn red the instant it saw a gap, too!)
Looks like Ford America might die out later in the future if they keep killing off cars. (I still find the 2018 F-150 ugly anyways.)
This situation is neither voluntary nor permanent; one of their suppliers had a factory fire and can't produce a critical component. They're trying to get things started again as soon as possible.
Well, atleast they're trying to get back on their feet unlike various other companies like Lancia, which died out with only one car in it's line-up, and was managed pretty badly in it's last years (it also killed off cars as well).
they are stopping cars because they no longer bring them much profit+ the new trade rules make foreign manufacturing more expensive so they only sell trucks/suvs and once they get the F series back up they will be fine
I still find it odd that the Ford factory fire took place right after they announced that they were going to stop selling cars. It's like some kind of bad omen.
Well, this is a first. My father got this in the mail about a month ago, this looked serious until we read it carefully, and then this is where things get real fishy and just screams "Scam". So, this debt collector claims that a vehicle that was "registered in my father's name" had driven on toll roads and had "multiple violations". The license plate number that they provided is nothing that my dad has remembered, and looking up said license plate leads to being registered to a 2014 Ford F-150, and that address listed on said truck is located in a town in Mississippi. The thing is, he's never owned a Ford F-150 let alone a 2014 model, nor that he's driven in Harris county at all. Someone suggested that it might've been a relative, but no relative has ever owned a F-150, or these "attorneys" somehow mistaken it for a Lincoln Navigator which a relative does own, but even still, they don't live in the state of Mississippi, I know well for sure their license plate number is nowhere near as what this letter's stated. Apparently a quick look up on their name in Google's led to a TON of people complaining about them and calling scam, and the fact that it even sparked CNN Money to write an article about it, says it all as well, alot of people claimed they got sent, "threatening" letters about speeding tickets, running red-lights, unpaid toll fees, etc. Some fell for it, and paid the fees that the letters listed, only for another letter to get sent with a much higher fee as well, and the worst of them all is where some unlucky sap's tax information got obtained by them, and their tax returns garnished by those so called "fees", people went to court, nothing ever really happened apart from the case getting dismissed, and the harassment stopped there. So, I think we'll be fine in just ignoring it and see what will happen, they don't have any other proof otherwise. In comparison, my father did receive a letter from the Georgia DOT with an actual picture snapped of my father's 4Runner on a toll road off the I-85. The fee itself was only about $5 or so, and that was paid, and they never bothered again.
While you can buy smoke alarms. You can often get one for free from places like local libraries depending on your local councils policies. You can also get them installed free of charge depending on eligibility. Of course the councils are paying for this. But still. The adverts are government funded AFAIK (and we don't have lobbying) , they often run very frequently too, since they get special discount rates for advertising on these sorts of things.
What do you think of Putin's new car? Production of a simpler and shorter serial version will start soon, minivan and SUV using the same platform are planned as well. Russians proudly announced it uses a lot of equipment developed by foreign specialists, including...airbags by Takata (manufactured at UAZ).
It's really a shame, because I quite like most takata harnesses, they fit me well. I wouldn't however, buy a car with a takata airbags. I really hope they don't go out of business because of this.
If you're building a car for one of the most important world leaders, don't: 1. Proudly announce that you had to import parts, 2. Make it look like something that can cost less than $30k new and less than $8k used.
Looks more like a chinese rip-off of the latest Rolls Royce models, except it somehow manages to look significanty worse than the already hideous cars it copies...
The Chinese copies look like Rolls-Royces next to that. This looks like a copy of a Chrysler 300 limousine.
Even worse at the rear, looks so fat: They named it Aurus Senat. *Toyota intensifies* I wonder how they managed to snatch Takata airbags. The development started when Takata airbags had already killed people and their business was already going down. Some site praising the car: "9 airbags licensed from Takata provide superior protection". YOU SURE? Both funny and sad at the same time. UAZ, the manufacturer who is producing the Takata-designed airbags, is also notorious for its products' safety - their Patriot model guarantees driver's neck snap in a 64 kmh 40% overlap crash into a deformable barrier.
