who bought the extruded aluminum from Sapa, who in turn bought crappy aluminum from a crappy supplier.

The fact that an important government agency responsible for sending human beings and high-tech equipment into space was so easily duped for so long by a deceptive company is pretty concerning.

Watch children, that is funny

The commenter mentions a Metro.

But what good would that $20k do for them otherwise at that point? They’d get even less for it if died with it. They’d get the same exact thing from it as concert tickets, literally nothing. I’m failing to see how the state getting $20k less from someone’s inheritance is scary, especially since they got it through the…

H3T?  Anything introduced that year is probably a contender.  

Because that was the question I asked, which you responded to.  What was your purpose in responding to me, if not to answer the question?

What makes it dumb?  Yes it was ugly, but a luxury SUV when luxury SUVs were booming wasn’t dumb.

I don’t even think the 4x4's are that much higher, but the 4x2's definitely are.  

Expect continued erosion of their sales as they get deeper in to this generation. They’ve barely been out 6 months and they are already losing to a 4 year old design. 

Now that Lordstown’s closed, more cars, yes. Not more vehicles.

Shorter wheelbases make the cars rotate easier, and much more prone to swap ends.

You failed to answer why it’s scary that someone spent 1% of their kids’ (or the state’s) inheritance on a leisure activity.

Its the same because FCA is notoriously risk averse. They’re too afraid to take a chance.

I’ve never EVER heard of only 3%. Back in the 80s people could put down 5% and get away with it. Now you have PMI (poor tax) if you put down less than 20%. 

The payout ratio is somewhere around $0.57 per dollar. You *barely* get back half of what you put in. That’s a fucking scam in my book...

If you think you’re better off having had “the hope of winning” rather than $20,000 in your bank account, that’s scary.

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but how often do you hear of someone saying that “they needed the extra room” as an excuse to buy a hatchback that wasn’t a Honda Fit?`

I suppose that could have been a possible outcome, but it seems like this has been ongoing. Yes having to scrap it would be wasted time, and I’m not familiar enough with Indian growing seasons to know if it’d be a loss, but here it’d still be early enough to plant something different.