Because in a lot of countries there war tax-incentives which meant that you could get a lot off the price of a new tesla in this way and stock wasn’t ready, so you could sell it on 6 months later for a profit, and repeat the same thing a few times.
Then, end of last year, they had stock, and the tax credits were…

Because you can get a Polestar 2 and actually have a car that looks, drives and behaves like a car, with added Volvo-understatement to boot.

Teslas are good... as parts donors for other electrification projects. Their electric powertrain is decent (after replacing the motor in a model S 3-4 times, you might even get…

Sony is still selling their consoles at a loss. They NEED their games to break even with their game department, and since the game department was at times financing a lot of other departments with its success, they cannot as of now deviate from this path too much. Unless they give up making consoles and just…

Then you aren’t a purist, but an elitist snob.
959 was watercooled. 935 Moby Dick was watercooled too. 996 Turbo has a Mezger engine, but is watercooled.
Air cooled engines have - from a technical standpoint - nothing but disadvantages. Also, they need a costly overhaul of the cylinder heads at times, replacing all the…

Nice price, BUT: Don’t forget that everything on a 996 can become expensive, especially if it is cosmetical stuff. That missing headlight washer chrome cap? 50€. Headlights, if they are Xenon and the plastic covers can’t be refurbished anymore: 1150€ a piece. Interior trim can also be quite expensive.
On the plus side,…

wasn’t it with the FXX-K though that you didn’t really “own” the car, i.e. you couldn’t take it with you, Ferrari would only bring it to a track for you to arrive at, race it, then take it back home with them and refresh it for whenever you want to use it next?
Could’ve been another Ferrari, but it definitely was a car…

Does caffeine really affect you? I mean really? Most people here drink 2 cups for breakfast, 2 in the afternoon, and if you work in an office... don’t start to count.
Decaf is always a solution though.

Thats true, even though I regularly do weekend shifts in the garden and walk a lot, I am by no means slim or look “fit”. I can work physically for hours (even though I am by trade a desk pusher), but I recognize that without putting in hours in the Gym I will not look that way.
That is the one thing that should be made…

I am using Steam, Gog, Epic, DOS, old Windows and a lot of emulated games on the Steam Deck no problem. Game Pass is a dud, which is a bummer, but that’s the only thing I miss.
Even Star Citizen runs on the Steam Deck. Somehow. Not great, but it does.
For Epic and GoG get the Heroic Launcher. Perfect integration, even…

The Ally has a more powerful processor, yet at the same time has to push more pixels - 2 times as much. Valve knew what they were doing with the resolution of the device, they kept it at that so that it wouldn’t create constraints on the shared memory (more screen size = more memory needed) and so that the…

What do you perceive as “overcorrection” though?
Yes, I agree that not every fitness app has to sound the alarm when you are slightly above the “correct” BMI for your gender and age. After all, you could be working out a lot, and muscles are heavier than fat after all, so you automatically weigh more. Though then…

I guess residents of UK and Ireland are currently weeping when looking at our postings. I remember a meetup of Volvo 850/V70 users, one came with his V70R from Ireland. When he told us what his anually insurance premium was for that car, we felt the pain with him.

It’s the other way around here. The longer you drive without any self-inflicted incident, the lower your rates go. Also, if you don’t change the car, i.e. if you drive a car by yourself for a long time, you also get lower rates than somebody who would buy the same car (model year, engine etc) used and have the same…

Germany. It was a long time ago, when insurers were thinking about how they could make the most out of the insurance premiums. Of course, back then you actually had a choice of colors, not just two shades of grey, black, white and maybe a hint of blue.
Some people got mad when they found out they should pay more just…

maybe - probably - could be. Thing is, the number of Teslas with stickers like “sorry, I bought it before he started to act like that” is rising. I’ve not really seen that kind of “buyers remorse” with another car company - yet again, there’s barely anothe volume automaker that is so much associated with just one…

What that graph fails to portray though is that their market share during these times has constantly shrunk.
Yes, they sold more cars in absolute numbers, but their market share of all EVs sold worldwide has shrunk by 5% from Q1 2021 to and is now at less than 12%
The US market is a bit skewed here, since that is where…

The used market shows a sharp decline though. Previously, even very high km used Model S were sold here for 30.000+ Euros (with up to 500.000km on the clock). Four years back, similar cars cost 10.000€ less used.
Now they are on a downward spiral price-wise again. It startet about at the time when Musk bought Twitter.…

So people who have to work late shifts and have to get home afterwards cannot use Tesla insurance. Got it.
Years ago, insurers were making people with cars with certain colors pay more, because p.ex. red cars were involved more often in accidents, therefore people driving them had to pay more. That was struck down by…

New ones had wait times of more than half a year at that time. The people who sold these basically applied for a new car as soon as they had the confirmation that their previous car was delivered, they had to hold them for 6 months iirc, then could flip them. Some were even sold over list price, just because people…

Over in Europe, new purchases of EVs were heavily subsidized. A lot of people bought Teslas, got the cashback from the state, and then sold on the cars for slightly under MSRP, netting several thousand Euros per purchase. They were eligible for a new rebate every 6 months. But now, the rebates are gone and the cars…