You’re adorable. I’m in engineer and technical sales, I’m not doing any of the negotiating but I am listening in. When you’re big enough the “My way or you’re costing me money get out of my way” approach seems to work. In the world of manufacturing every moment of delay costs someone, so that’s implicit in the process…

I sit in the board room for a several hundred million dollar company on a weekly basis, I understand how you see it as grim but that’s how it works unfortunately. You have few friends in negotiations, you only have numbers and a business plan. If you’re taking less ground than available that’s only because you’re…

or he one way or another forced the issue with threat of one level of inconvenience or another.

That’s how business works though....

Once again the drivers car is the 3 liter V6 (340 or 380hp don’t care) and a manual.

That moment of inertia will get you every time. A drivers car needs to be about balance not massive V8 power and rolling smoke.

We fundamentally disagree then on what makes a car great. Superlatives are boring, I want a car with soul, one with quirks. Those elements are that makes that car, not that model, that specific car special.

I’ve owned several versions of the same car (I have a VW problem) and they’re all a little different.

Have you never owned an old broken car? That’s the charm, you love it for all the ways it is imperfect.

They’s why I’ll never truly love a modern 911, they’re too perfect.

I think they’re going to be “totaled” just like the Elises with tub damage. On paper they’re salvage but in reality they’re just fine. CF structures are quite repairable, just talk to Boeing

I bet there would be demand for a pneumatic shifted sequential box. If they every got produced for a reasonable price that would transform the car.

The real question is what is the used 4C market going to look like in 2020?

So few have been sold it’s hard to gauge if the transmission will hold up over 50k miles. I have a feeling they are modern classics already.

I don’t get it. It’s not like he sued them to have it installed. He asked and they obliged. You need infrastructure to support these vehicles. As the support structure grows so will the number of EVs on the road.

That’s an absolutely absurd line of logic. D0 you realize how much you’re actually paying for that convenience? Logic like that is how poor people stay poor.

If you want a truck because you emotionally want a truck that’s fine, no problems there. However if you justify it through the logic you described you’re lying to…

So you need to buy a 35k+ truck instead? Come on now.

If you can’t store even a folding trailer you can pick up one from U Haul for $15. It takes 20 min. You really never need a truck for Home Depot runs, you’re simply justifying it.

I just pulled home a 600 lb OM617 plus an engine stand behind my 1 liter Fiesta 30…

I say this every time. Invest in a $700 trailer and it’ll cover 95% of your hauling needs for the next to years. In that other 5% rent a U haul/ Home Depot truck.

You can haul plenty with your Sedan, Minivan or E 63 Wagon

You think this thing is really going to be 1500 sized? If it were Colorado sized I’d seriously think about it .

Mercedes has you covered Fam.

B.S. he’s not staying open because he loves the job he is staying open because the value of the property is going to continue to increase.

My understanding is that he was loading the children into the vehicle on his property. If he was physically on the street it’s a different story.

So you’re willing to give up all your rights because police are scary? That’s ridiculous.

I know my rights, I’ve used them a dozen times when interacting with police with no ill effects and if things go south I’ve got very good lawyers.

Do you don’t know and use your rights you don’t have them. Think about that.

Yeah, if I’m on my private property that’s not going to happen. The police have no right to demand it.