At least in the closing sheet I got they listed the total cost of payments and the APR and the amortization schedule.

Counterpoint: The Transit Connect is a bad minivan for what people in America use minivans for. It doesn’t offer seating for 7 in 2-2-3 walk through aisle configuration, you don’t get power doors or power liftgates, it’s generally half a size too small for people who would consider minivans, and option packages…

Asia. They’re itching for a hot war in the south china sea.

This guy understands. It’s the cost of the permitting and the land and the labor, the differential cost of putting on a $30/sqft stone countertop vs a $3/sqft laminate countertop is negligible in the grand scheme of things.

3rd Gear: Allyship is overrated.

My inner pedant is swinging back and forth at your thought.

+55% over the loan amount over 30 years is about the advertised 2.xx% a year.

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:

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.