Varn Vinch Wolwo. I like.
What’s the Outback to All-Road 4x4^2 acquisition ratio again? Is it 5:1 or 6:1? I always forget.
Excellent application of the transitive principle/law. A+
Nice on the Volvos. I’m thinking I should have probably kept my internal narrative where it belongs: internally. I just needed a cheap car for getting groceries.
Good point, Stephen. I did not address operation, or rather, operator behavior. There is certainly a (closing) difference between me feather-footing the Lincoln and someone lead-footing their hybrid. (NREL studies have shown aggressive driving to make up to a 20% difference in fuel economy, and DOE studies show that…
The Dude abides
You two stop it *right now*, or I’m coming back there!
This is exactly why I avoid Acura cars.
If you are an actual, give a f&*k environmentalist, you will find that the carbon footprint of buying a new (or newish) car is horrible. I just picked up a used Lincoln Town Car (Signature, if you’re asking). This is called upcycling or recycling. Manufactured in 1997, with 87,000 miles on the clock. Once hood and…
Everybody’s mom: “I DON’T CARE *WHO* STARTED IT!”
This shows the effectiveness of the PIT maneuver generally, and underscores its destructive potential when executed at speed in particular.
Do you have a 401k?
suggest lowering overhead and offering a differentiated product and tapping into the ‘buy local/support local’ megatrend and getting a new accountant and networking more good and a bunch of other stuff.
Not entirely. The only people who are hurt are those with retirement plans invested in portfolios which include shares in said insurance companies. Hence, the people most hurt by this fiery rejection of the abuse of the proletariat are the people who dutifully work on the line at VAG/Porsche for many years (and other…
I will not write Alpha when I should have written Alfa ever again.
It comes to mind that the dealership + service model is about as problematic as the generation + transmission model is in the electricity industry. Sure, it used to not just make sense, it was a prerequisite. Today, however, the virtues of disaggregating both from either resolves a substantial conflict of interest in…
When I read this, I immediately thought of the reaction Mike “The American” Skinner has to every non-American V8 RWD car he drives, and transposed that reaction onto every Chrysler Ram dealership mechanic affronted by the sight of a Giulia in their daily queue.
It’s called ‘character’.
If a lot of this gives the appearance of a shell game, this article is worth a read. It’s a most wondrous shell game, and it’s also a wild romp through the whimsical world of public-private-partnerships and international finance. This tale is filled with all of the things I was supposed to remember during MBA…