This guy understands! Of course the additional problem is that appraised value is based on county recorded closed sales, which lags a few weeks to a month behind conditions on the ground.

#1 is just not true anymore. Given the realities of people gathering inside of a house, there will not be showings to anyone who isn’t prequalified for at least asking.

He’s been down that route before and got the world’s most unreliable Honda Accord. That man has a gift.

I don’t think either I or IIHS claimed that. I think it’s probably fair to say the same kind of person who gets a Model S Performance is probably somewhat similar to the type of person who would have bought an M5, and not at all like the type of person who would buy an S class.

I doubt it’s going to be legislation, but it’s definitely in the realm of possibility that mechanics trained to work on ICE and gasoline itself becoming very expensive. So people will have to spend thousands of dollars to keep their pet ICE cars and daily an EV.

The planned blackout issues in CA has to do with the handover of installed solar capacity to non-solar sources at sunset on hot days where AC demand is high. It’s still hot in CA when solar production falls to 0, and that’s where the problem is.

Yeah you can’t really debate counterfactuals. For every fleet driven Tesla with 500,000 miles there’s like 10 sprog shuttles for the suburban parents to show off their “falcon” wings. No other company keeps tabs on their cars quite like Tesla, and hence no other company has the data to massage to fit their narrative.

41.46 (from your medium link) is right in line with the 45 and 54 from the IIHS link above for the Mustang and Corvette, respectively.

To be fair, Tesla is right in line with large sports coupes of a similar vintage, and safer than subcompact sedans. And people joke about Mustangs running over people about as much as they complain about people dying in Teslas, so it checks out.

So wild ass estimate time:

Good thing that there’s already precedent for sidestepping whether the bias is intentional, by having a “disparate impact” rule. They shouldn’t have to prove intent.

That is the issue: how much does a Chinese-built Sable have to list for for the sales to be worth the Federal certifications? Also being Chinese built, it probably doesn’t have access to any of the municipal/state/federal fleet contracts.

Notchbacks are cool. Fight me.

Given the history with Merkur, importing Chinese market Fords into the US and changing the brand to Shuixing (Google tells me that’s mandarin for Mercury) is likely a major loser.

Hello fake doctor! I don’t really think you’re being serious, but if you can gather up all the Trumpers and agree to free health care, severance pay and counseling, UBI, and expanding food stamps, I would cheer that and would be happy with unlimited gun rights.

This is so true and by design, though this is an argument for the system working exactly as designed. Remember those rural areas? Remember that it wasn’t subsistence farmers generally in the rural colonies, but landowners and enslaved laborers.

This looks exactly like what happens when they shipped the MKZ tooling from Mexico to China, and told designers “here are the hard points, go hog wild”.

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