Planned obsolescence isn’t unique to Tesla, and isn’t a new idea in the auto industry.  It has been going on for decades.  No manufacturer is going to design a product that lasts forever.  If they did, they’d be out of business as soon as everyone had one.  

The only person who will tell you that CFD can do everything is an Ansys salesman.

Here’s some early spy photos, I don’t know why they didn’t include them in the article.

The monolithic design with few, very precise lines demonstrates character and gives the car a modern appearance. The BMW iX is bold and yet clean and elegant.

Spend $15 on a pizza that can stretch into two meals and easily be reheated, or $15 on a dinky salad that I have to eat NOW or it’ll become a wilted, soggy mess.

Gosh, I just can’t understand why the former is trouncing the latter.

$15 salad. 15 damn dollar salad.

This was my comment on your previous post regarding this monstrosity:

Why would anyone put up with the city if they can actually work remotely.  I think the opposite is likely to occur and more people will leave the cities.

Throw in remote work and an inevitable shift of population into cities and yeah.

This. My company found out that we can do a huge majority of our operations at home at 100 percent efficiency. If it wasnt for the fact we already owned the building we work in, I would imagine that we would of gotten rid of at least our corporate building

“At the moment, a lot of the slack is getting taken up by remote working, but I don’t think that will last forever.”

Although not an ideal situation, the U.S. government was between a rocket and a hard place.

Dude, you could even have stayed on-brand:

Agreed!

Yarrr, a gold doubloon to the first man who sights the White Escape...

Maybe they had family that was killed at Cars and Coffee? 

So that Ford did not escape ?

$150,000 each. Every unit sold. Seems to me like there were no mistakes made. 

Same Energy

The Alfa is iconic and the Jarama is a footnote, so...