A majority of the 11,300 electric vehicles VinFast has sold worldwide this year were to… itself. Barron’s reports that over 7,000 EVs were bought by Green and Smart Mobility. It’s a Vietnamese taxi company that is – you guessed it – controlled by Vingroup...

Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with these people? I’m reminded of the Enron scumbags manipulating energy prices in California caught on the phone joking about “fucking grandma Millie." Do these professions attract sociopaths?

Investment bankers don’t count. Sorry.

Lemme guess: he’s going to make a $25,000 Tesla possible by subsidizing the cost of production with the $22 billion dollars he gets from suing the ADL.

Do you have hairs in your nose?

Also: Tort reform.

Why would a safety inspector be an employee of the railroads he is inspecting? Seems to me it should be an independent agency doing this. I seem to recall a time when the guys who were rating moratgage backed securities were hired by the guys selling those same mortgage backed securities. Contributed to the biggest…

100% agree. I became something of a “watch guy” a few years ago. I spend more time than I’d like to admit watching YouTube watch influencer videos where the presenter tries to come up with new ways to convince you that a $40,000 Phillipe Patek is worth the asking price because “heritage” and “crafstmanship.”

If they try that it’ll die of Phaeton disease. I suspect it’ll either be badged as a Lexus or a Paladin, Toyota’s new ultry-luxury division I just made up.

This isn’t the athlete’s first run-in with the Coast Guard. The service’s vessel intervened in three of his prior ocean journeys in 2014, 2016, and 2021.

I assume it will be sold as a Lexus in the U.S.? Or maybe a new ultra-luxury brand?

OMG, who spilled a blueberry Icee all over that interior?

Executive compensation is way out of hand, but if this guy’s just exercising stock options that’s not the same as a guy bleeding the company to pay himself a massive salary.

Holy crap, the 2024 Sonata looks good. This was the first time I’d seen a picture.

When did “public urination” require backup from multiple officers?

Does Musk really want to be known as “the guy who bankrupted the Anti Defamation League?”

I question the premise of this article:

Not by anyone who works for a living.

When I was a kid this was my affordable dream car. I’d still love to try one out.

6 Speed manual transmisiion + Honda reliability = win.