market cap is an easy lie to tell.  look at djt and the ability to perpetrate fraud is obvious.

The Hudson River in NYC is surprisingly clean - I used to work at a college where the biology students would regularly pull samples for testing. The East River, on the other hand... you couldn’t pay me to swim in the East River.

For what it’s worth, Boston Harbor is clean thanks to the billions spent to clean it up.  Hell, even the Charles is swimable 70% of the time per the Charles River Conservency.  A far far cry from where it was even 20 years ago.

Canadian Auto Theft:

I’m all for cutting the NYPD ridiculous budget, but air conditioning an open-air system is just a waste of money. Run your AC with every window & door in your house/apartment open and see how well the AC does and how high your power bill is.

The Fisker one made me think of a moment I’m not proud of earlier in my career. I was in LA for the auto show and ended up at this design competition event at the Peterson Automotive Museum one night. While chatting with some folks, I met someone who worked for Faraday Future. This was pretty much right before their…

Luxury car technician can go one of two ways. For every shop that caters to broke posers and pays flat rate there’s one for the play hard pay hard crowd that keep their cars spotless and don’t care how many labor hours it takes to get that $30 part changed.

Neat car and a great one for a 1980/90s car guy hobbyist/enthusiast to own and tinker with. It’s unique, looks to be in good shape (clearly mechanic owned) has the right motor and tranny, so why not? You just don’t see these anymore, and this one looks clean and unmolested. If it looks and drives good I bet you could…

EV would be able to make a profit on that component.

Well to be fair, all the models except the CT do look pretty similar. I mean it’s like they only sell 3 cars, the 3/S (sedans) the X/Y (CUV) and then the CT. Like if you put a 3 and an S side by side I would probably have to look at the back to know which was which

My brain really wants to mentally photoshop an ordinary shed door into that photo, rather than accept that the entryway is actually a garage door that is approximately 1.05 IndyCars wide. I wonder how many fenders get busted going in and out of those things. The number is probably scary.

They kicked off the Tesla revolution but stagnated fast in both product and price offering.

Nah. The only reason they still exist is because it lets the little edgelord brag about his S/3/X/Y model line.

The model 3 seems to be doing well around me.  I rarely see a Model S and I’m not sure if I could tell if it’s a new one.

It looks like somebody put a race car in my shed. I halfway expect to find my brewing equipment and the occasional missing 10mm socket in there somewhere.

“It’s the Stealth instead of the 3000GT, so it’s the better looking of the two cousins”

If demand is matched to supply, and presumably the makers are making money at these volumes, then there is no story here. But as I said that would take journalism to figure out, not just “THESE CARS DON’T SELL”. Including cars that JUST came on the market is just epically stupid to boot. But typical of this place…

They play with their numbers the way they need to to make it work. So the bean counters are content :)

My point is the buyer is not getting the federal credit on the lease. No way, no how.

One exception: if your car has a stop-start feature and fails to restart. Cars with stop-start and a failing battery may just die in traffic when the battery finally gets too weak to restart the motor. A jump start may get the motor started so you can get it off the side of the road (especially if you can manually…