All of those TSBs were from 2013, and all of your other sources are merely algorithms that tabulate past results. TrueDelta rankings show a dip in 2013 that matches those findings...and then real world reliability shot back up. Yeah, it was a rocky start, no argument there, but the core cars are not inherently…

Fortunately, there’s some data around. Looking at Cargurus nationally, there are 259 BRZs for sale used. Large range of ages, some of them very stale. Out of that sample, around 75% of the cars are less than 50 days on the lot. The same analysis done for the Miata shows that fewer than 60% of the cars are less than 50…

Yes, best-selling statistics are cut up and made up by the manufacturers to make them look good. The truck sales figures do mean exactly as little as I imply. Ford can claim best-selling all they want, but if GM is selling more, then yes, GM is selling more. The powers that be you speak of are marketing departments.

The only relevant statistic is the two cars combined...they’re marketing distributions between Subaru and Toyota. That said, the only car that may outsell the two this year in the category is the Miata, and that’s comparing a brand new car against a four year old one.

Half of them are just fawning...the R-package and the color cars weren’t limited production.

Laugh if you must, but the thing with all these limited editions is that Subaru (and Scion, who set the precedent) sells every single one. If you need a reminder that enthusiasts don’t dictate the market, it’s that Subaru will make hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit on yellow contrast stitching.

This does bring the carbon-neutral concept into focus, though. If we could make biofuels using algae that would absorb as much carbon in their production as was later emitted in their use, they would help reduce our emissions by displacing fuels that otherwise would have been dug out of the ground.

Depends on what you’re doing. When I’m trying to put together an economic model examining carbon-intensity of electricity generation, the uncertainty in emissions numbers puts a definite bound on my precision and makes data consistency very important...running the model with IEA versus EPA numbers will get hilariously…

Enhanced Oil Recovery. All of the currently operating and funded carbon capture projects sell their CO2 to oil or gas extraction firms to help them get more oil out of the ground.

It happened with 90s Toyotas, too. I was getting my Celica in high school inspected, and after I gave him the key, he ran back to me and asked “is yours the Celica, or the Camry? They’re both 91s...and the key starts both of them.” I don’t know whether this was key codes or lock cylinder wear, the car was at least 13…

Zero evidence? Type “Florida” into Youtube.

Western Sky pretty much was illegal due to usury laws in most states. They skirted these laws by being incorporated on tribal land.

Especially considering this story is about a contractor, does Angie’s List work any better? Same basic principle as Yelp, with a paywall to enforce identity and honesty.

Laugh all you want, but a 5hp difference (or more likely the 5 ft-lb difference) is likely accompanied by engine tuning that will eliminate or at least moderate the dreaded “torque dip” and likely make the new car feel a lot more lively. For those who want a lightweight sports car, all this improvement, bigger numbers…

Yeah, I replied elsewhere, but in short, I’m a researcher and “day traders” will pull loads of facts out to support their already-made purchase that I now don’t have to go find myself. I follow energy and automotive, and the energy flamewars are just as interesting as the auto ones.

To be fair, the only reason I brought up Seeking Alpha is that they will post things from contributors on both sides of an issue. I get updates in my inbox and the TSLA updates are like flame war smoke signals visible from miles and miles away. Investors are very good at collecting data to support their purchases ex…

Also worth noting the core authors at Zero Hedge are little more than self-interested capitalists, and mostly gin up the “conspiracy” edge of their posts for clickbait rather than any actual belief in what they’re saying.

Dear Toyota,

On one hand, COBOL’s most recent codebase is only two years old (COBOL 2014). On the other hand, COBOL was a major contributor to the existence of the Y2K bug.

Old-school programming is big business. A fraternity brother of mine is in the process of getting his Physics PhD, but while he was in undergrad he was coding in FORTRAN to do modeling on the school’s supercomputing bank. There were a few summers where he found out how badly some employers needed FORTRAN programmers...