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SoonerLS

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  1. Yep. Even when my work phone was an iPhone, my personal phones were Windows phones. They were sooo much better than iPhone or Android that it wasn't even funny.
  2. The last numbers I heard put the iPhone at about 60% of the US cell phone market. That’s a pretty good chunk of the market, but I don’t think I’d call it dominant.
  3. Hell, the gov't is still trying to continue the lawsuit to stop Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard after the court told them no, that's stupid, you can't do that, and let the acquisition go forward.
  4. If you're just looking at the EB35, I would be surprised if the versions from the trucks weren't the majority. As I recall, for the 12th Gen F-150, the EB35 ran somewhere around 40-45% of production, with the Coyote having similar numbers and the 3.7 and 6.2 splitting the remaining 10%. That would put the number of RWD EB35s somewhere in the neighborhood of 250K units per year from 2011-2014. Plus, when Navigator and Expedition merged onto the F-150 platform, they went 100% EB35. (When Ford introduced the small EB to the F-150 lineup, the EB35's percentage went down a bit, but we're still talking more engines than some of the transverse models sold combined.) The transverse EB35 was used in more models, for sure, but how many of them actually got delivered with an EB35 vs. the NA V6? It's not an insignificant number, but it can't be anywhere near the F-150's numbers just because you can combine the total sales of some of those FWD/AWD models and not reach 250K. Now, if you want to talk the NA V6es, I'd wager that the transverse versions would win that by a country mile. Further, I would not be surprised if the margin was big enough to more than cover the RWD EB35's margin when you combine the 3.3/3.5/3.7 V6es with the EB35.
  5. Replacing the axle assemblies with failed/failing CV joints is normal; the CV joint itself is usually not field-replaceable. FWIW, the only CV joint-related reason you'd replace both front axle assemblies is if you had bad CV joints on both; they're independent parts.
  6. I wouldn't go quite that far; I like having it, but I don't think I've ever used the keypad on the Flex. All I have to do is pull the handle to unlock or touch the pad on the handle to lock, so I don't really have a use for the keypad. My truck doesn't even have one; I could buy the door handle surround with the keypad and pair it like any other remote, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze to me.
  7. I don't think his point is to match the fine to the depth of the pockets, it's just to make sure the fine is more than the profit they realized from the cheating. That doesn't mean that you take it as a percentage of the over-all business's profits, just the profits on that program--it's possible, and even likely, that the fine could make that particular engine program a money loser without affecting the position of Cummins as a whole.
  8. That's kind of impossible. It's right there in the First Amendment: That is, basically, lobbying.
  9. Farmers aren’t using regular diesel, they’re using “off-road” diesel, which has no taxes applied, so it’s $0.30 or more cheaper than the diesel you buy at the “regular” diesel pump. (It’s also dyed red, so if the revenuers put their stick in your diesel truck’s tank and it comes out red, you’re in deep doo-doo.) Personally, I don’t see much future for gaseous engines in ag. We went down that road with propane from the ‘50s to ‘80s, and diesel curb-stomped all the other fuel types.
  10. Yeah, no, they didn't. I see a LOT more PIUs than Dodge SUVs wearing law enforcement livery, and a lot more PIUs than Chargers, too.
  11. And agriculture--I don't know if anyone is even making gasoline-powered tractors these days, not even in the compact or utility tractor lines. There's just no comparison between the burn rates of diesel and gasser tractors while they're working.
  12. Looking at what happened to VW as a result of their similar scandal, it's likely that Stellantis/Ram will be having to deal with fixing the trucks. I'd imagine that they will at least try to charge most (if not all) of that back to Cummins instead of having to eat all of the costs like VW.
  13. I paid $2.30/gal for E10 87 yesterday in Norman. Sucks that I was getting terrible gas mileage because I was dragging my brother's sea anchor, err, 2-horse trailer so we could move more junk and stuff and things from my folks' place before closing in a couple of weeks. I swear, it was like towing a drag chute; I've towed far heavier loads, but nothing made my truck suck down gasoline like hauling that little trailer.
  14. It's not really as boxy as it looks. It has lots of sloping surfaces and smooth, gradual transitions between planes, and what would traditionally be called rocker panels are part of the door skins that wrap underneath the chassis. It's surprisingly quiet at speed on our 80mph turnpikes due, in part, to those aerodynamics.
  15. So, you're bustin' it to get ahead. That's excellent (and I mean that sincerely). Let's roll the clock forward to a time after you finish the apprenticeship and become a fully-fledged electrician, makin' them big electrician bucks. When the next contract rolls around, should the company then reduce your pay to increase the pay of the guy who took your place in the body shop? If not, then why should they reduce the CEO's pay to increase anyone else's?
  16. Too many think they should have the same things they grew up having, not realizing that what they had wasn't where their parents started, but was the end result of years, or even decades, of hard work.
  17. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 The 1600-ish sqft house my parents bought new in 1973 cost $30K. When they sold it in 1990, it went for $100K. Today its estimated value is $206K. The only thing new in this inflation is that 20-somethings haven't been around long enough to see it, so they think it's new (which is pretty much universally true of 20-somethings throughout history).
  18. This seems an appropriate place to put this. It seems like Tesla has put a lot of thought and consideration in regards to the driver in their new semi.
  19. Agreed. Having the hood open has nothing to do with the actual problem; it's an old universal signal of a motorist in distress. It doesn't indicate that there's a problem with the engine or anything else in particular, just that the car is on the side of the road with a problem, and often indicates that the driver needs assistance.
  20. Those cars were built quite a bit differently than modern sedans, too. The ride height was taller, the windshields were more upright, and you didn't have the same packaging constraints due to having to meet modern safety standards. Those big bench seats were also easier on ingress/egress than modern buckets. It's interesting to watch older TV shows and watch someone get into a car from the passenger side and slide over to the driver's side. I don't think most folks could even do that in a truck these days.
  21. My brother has a Prius (which, he says, he hates until he stops at the gas station), and I had to drive it once. It was like driving an effing coffin. It's actually worse from the driver's seat than from the passenger seat. FWIW, I have yet to find a car that's easier to get into than my truck.
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