- Jim ‘Herb’ Spanfeller and drives away in an Aston Martin

For $270,000 you could buy 4 new GT350's and have enough money left over to rent a race track for 1 weekend a year for the next several years for an annual racing party.

No, we got the point, and it’s stupid.

Okay. I mistakenly believed I was amongst informed, educated adults who know that Chuck Yeager was the first person confirmed to have broken the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. You know what? I’ll just let wikipedia spell it out...

There’s no reason why you can’t have an engineer’s race that is also close and exciting. I’m an engineer, and part of engineering is working within a budget. Doing the most you can with a finite amount of resources and dreaming up creative solutions to maximize that budget.

I’m just stoked that the poor privateers can finally get into F1 that have been holding out since they only had 140 mil.

Dig into the actual financial health of significant portions of the S&P 500 - lots of those are zombie companies propped up via debt, creative financing, and innovative book keeping.  This is going to expose a LOT of that.  If we don’t want them to die, you’re right - you must keep adding cash to the pile to keep it…

That would make a heck of a lot more sense to me.

No. If someone wants to buy the equity for pennies on the dollar, they also have to help the company pay its debt obligations, which is not pennies on the dollar.

It’s a cash flow problem. Hertz doesn’t have much in terms of actual assets. I think of each car as a small cash flow machine. Money comes in from rentals, and a substantial portion goes right out to make lease payments. So long as there are rentals, there’s no additional capital needed. Right now, the company still…

How could they NOT be? This is a high-capital, low-margin business, just like the airline industry. My only surprise is that Hertz seems to be in slightly worse shape than the rest of them. NO company can survive the loss of 95% of their revenue for more than a very short period of time. Hertz is getting all the…

Renault isn’t going anywhere. This is just a politician speak politician-words. They want the banks / BCE to help and to keep as many jobs in France as possible. That’s it.

My state is willing to shell out millions of dollars to private corporations to build prisons, but can’t reopen vacant hospitals to treat COVID patients? Something’s wrong here.

again - my handy guide

Well, NH is the only state with no seatbelt law, so going maskless is just another example of them living up to their state motto.

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I feel like this one’s gonna be about a 50/50 split. The people who say CP just because it’s 25 years old are technically correct, but also this is about right on the market for one of these that’s this clean. I’m going to make the assumption that I can get it for a little under 7k and say NP. 

Hey, where is the guy that wanted an over-landing rig in that article yesterday that I didn’t read because it was a slideshow?

Why do people think that? Because other people pay their asking price with glee and reckless abandon.

I always find it odd that people can’t make the tiniest changes or repairs before the ad photo shoot. How much could it have cost to replace the antenna and the steering wheel cover? And why would you leave the air freshener in there? The car was clearly well detailed, so the seller was paying attention. But somehow…