To warn you that there’s no way it should be able to pass a health code inspection?

“I assumed wrong and now I’m pissed” is basically what they were saying. It was 7 years later for christ sake! It would be one thing to come back with a convertible the next year or two, but people and companies are allowed to change their mind when facts are presented. Anyone who buys a car as an investment deserves…

How much do you think a rail car can carry?

I’ve actually been that guy- I stopped to help ducklings that couldn’t make it over the curb to follow their mom. Those little fuckers do not want to be caught. I stopped my car behind them and used it as my traffic blocker.

That said, I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as an accident in a car- there’s…

Agree with you. I think it is highly likely that she was on a phone. How do you just not see stopped traffic and a man in the road if you are not distracted. I was recently side swiped on the interstate by a 16 year old girl who pulled into my lane. I tried to hit the horn, but not enough time. I could clearly see her…

As someone who has spent a lot of workdays walking various roads, that was one of my first thoughts. It’s one of those very tragic deaths that was easily preventable on many levels. Roads are very dangerous on foot, always assume that drivers don’t see you. I saw plenty who would have hit me if I wasn’t paying…

If you think a man getting hit by a car isn’t automotive-related, I don’t know what to tell ya.

If it makes anybody feel better, one of those ducks he saved was Duck Hitler.

When I started driving years ago, I got a valuable lesson. The car next to me had stopped and I just drove through. There was someone crossing the street and I fortunately didn’t hit them. Lesson learned - when you see a vehicle stopped - even if there is no crosswalk, at least slow down and look around.

The lesson I…

Yes.

“We’re off the front page, boys. Everything’s gonna be fine.”

Man..That a painful read and I suspect the author wasn’t the best Econ student. Plus you might wanna know what a word means before you throw it into the headline of your post.

I... feel like the author is confused about how supply and demand works. The corporations have always been driven by a desire for... profit. That’s their whole deal. They have never had a different motivation of any kind. They have run the numbers and decided that they make a greater profit by not giving money away, I…

Looking it up, you are correct. Different indexes do different things, CPI does consider food.

Leaving aside the specificity of the auto industry. I’ve been suspicious of  inflation trends precisely because corporate profits have mostly been through the roof. I understand that’s the gist of capitalism, and I support free market principles when markets are actually free. But it seems like what we saw were across…

Can’t really say I’m surprised. A lot of economic data is now showing (there is always a lag in the data) that across the board many companies took advantage of market forces to raise prices (or shrink product sizes while maintaining the same price as before). Inflation wasn’t driven by wage growth, it was being driven…

There’s absolutely nothing surprising here and in fact this will most assuredly (barring other factors--see below) follow typical market cycles. I commented on this site a few years ago when the pandemic price surges were happening that dealers will push the narrative that they are limited long past the resolution of…

“They’re stuck sitting on inventory for months, unable to move units at such inflated prices”

More poorly done clickbait headlines. Prices will come down after dealers realize they can’t sell cars at the higher markups.  They also have used inventory that was expensive   

Supply/demand and inflation are two separate but connected things. The thing about inflation is that when inflation slows, prices don’t drop. They just rise slower. When the prices of things drop across the board, we have what’s called “depression” and nobody wants that. Apart from that, prices can “inflate”…