Er, stocks are assets to, yeah? The whole point is that a car used for transportation is a consumable, and is thus generally considered depreciating rather than appreciating.

Well, it’s $1,000 not just to build credit, but also to not lose the opportunity cost on putting $17,000 into a depreciating asset. Almost any financial planner I’ve ever known will tell you that it’s poor financial planning to buy depreciating assets outright when you can get reasonable financing on a secured loan to…

It does not. In fact, it has a control specifically to tell it how far over/under the speed limit it should go.

Commas: the difference between “Let’s eat grandma!” and “Let’s eat, grandma!” :p

I don’t understand. If you’re writing off the car anyway, it doesn’t matter if it’s financed or paid outright. The only extra “loss” from financing it is the interest charge. You’re still losing the money either way. But having that loan successfully established will help them immensely in the future. They’ve already…

Er, it can’t actually, when following strict grammar rules. To be the “cop was doing the donuts” way, it would have to be written with a comma:

In fairness, these were supposedly undercover cops, not unmarked. It’s pretty reasonable that you wouldn’t have obvious surveillance devices on your undercover agents other than when doing a targeted action, as that’s usually a pretty sure fire way to get their cover blown at best, and them killed at worst. It’s also…

At first I was like “25 MPH and he crashes at that fork? I call bullshit to paying attention.”

But then I looked in more detail at the street view. Given where he wound up, I think what he meant by “going straight” was not that the car split the fork right now the middle. I think it was in the turn lane (it splits well…

Interestingly, Google’s captchas lately (which are labeling data for Waymo) are all focused on picking out mountains and hills. So... that might actually be possible, especially with a purely camera-based approach.

Well, you can do it, but at that point you’re taking over so often that you rapidly realize there is little utility in the system outside of a party trick because the level of attention needed is as much as just driving the car.

One of the hurdles to winter tires used to be that in order to do it, you had to buy a set of 911 Turbo-S rims, as no one made a winter tire wide enough to fit on the GT3's rears, and the Turbo S was the only other centerlock rim that was narrower. That added another $5,500 to the cost of entry :p But in 2019 Michelin…

I think more of them get used more than people think, but yeah, I think I’m the only crazy in my area that has winter tires that my dealership services.

I have winter tires for my 991.2 GT3, it’s my daily driver.

Eh, they made over 6,000 991.2 GT3s. Significantly more than any other individual trim level of 911 from that generation. They reopened allocations like 4 times past the original “we’re done building them,” wand while they’re all listed as 2018 model years, they actually made them in 2017, 2018, and 2019. While you…

You’ll note that there is no pace car in any of the shots. The author clearly states there was a pace car for their laps. Ergo, these photos are general press shots taken at the event (and likely given to anyone else that was invited, I doubt this was set up just for one blog’s reviewer), not ones of the author’s…

For those wondering what simplification not having multiple power targets allows: thermals.

Fun read, but I feel like you missed the bit where you actually performed the comparison between the race car and the street car that was the genesis of this article :p

It’s interesting, I own a 991.2 GT3 with the wing, because I thought it improved the looks of the rear of car relative to the Touring. With the 992, it’s the opposite, I would take a Touring. Not because I think the swan neck is ugly, but because the 992's rear deck is _much_ higher up already, and the wing just makes…

Except displacement on demand relies on the valve train being able to “lock open” for the deactivated cylinders. Otherwise you’re just engine braking with half your engine. So that would actually significantly _harm_ fuel economy.

That presumes supply exceeds demand (or at least is elastic enough to meet any demand), and the limiting factor is drumming up demand or matching demand to units as quickly as possible. If demand greatly exceeds supply, then the optimal strategy shifts to maximizing your outcome from individual sales. Right now,…