I agree 100% with this. I typically listen to NPR on my drive in to work in the mornings, but recently had to shut it off when they were doing one of their stupid “talk to some regular person” pieces. As soon as they introduce them, you pretty much know what their viewpoint on the matter is going to be. It doesn’t…

Disagree on Snowpiercer. The whole premise was entirely too silly for this movie to take itself so seriously. There are some good themes explored, but it was so all on the nose that it felt amateurish.

I think the real # of Aspen Hybrids is ~350. It probably really is more rare that Veyrons.

I think it’s a 911

Automakers are trying to keep sales juiced because it is expensive to operate a factory, and astronomically expensive to operate a plant below capacity.

I saw everything from $16 an hour to $73, if you include nebulous “benefits.”

This is the area where I feel unions need the most reform as well. I used to work with a company where the assembly was all handled by union workers. There was a downturn in business and the # of workers had to be reduced, but seniority rules meant that some great workers were laid off while crummy workers stayed…

A 17 million unit SAAR is FUCKING RIDICULOUS

I’m surprised Tom dismissed the V90 as order-only and thus not available immediately. Despite this fact, there are quite a few new V90s available. Not as many as the CC, but they are out there.

I could easily afford a used Maybach if I wanted, but I much prefer sports cars to gaudy luxury cars.

That interior is Trump-levels of ugly/gaudy.  No way I’d ever spend money to buy anything that looked like that.

I only use it for work as well, and only a few times as I usually have a rental car. On a recent trip to New Orleans, Uber/Lyft was just about the exact same price as the cabs from the airport to the hotel, and I had to walk past a string of cabs to get to the rideshare pickup zone. I still used Uber for the…

The 1st and 2nd gen Eclipses were fun, tight sporty cars. The 3rd gen shares its chassis with the much larger US Galant of the time. It no longer had the sporty suspension that it used to, and it grew to be big floaty barge compared to the generations before it, so fans of the 1st and 2nd gens were turned off by the…

Source?

Sadly, this killed Pontiac. Cost too much and didn’t sell well. In the end Pontiacs were eating chevy marketshare.

Investment in technology related items, like self-driving tech.

My wife and I are both in the 840-850 range without any gaming of anything. Almost all of our spending goes onto 1 primary CC, and we pay it off each month. We probably have about 6 CC total, but the others are only used sporadically. We have a mortgage, we used to have 2 car loans and 2 student loans but those have…

I grew up in Phoenix. My 240SX has a whole bunch of fine scratches on the windshield following the path of the wipers. I don’t want to replace the windshield because it is the original with reflective film embedded in the glass for the heads-up display, and you can’t get them anymore.

I never cared for this body style.  Didn’t look classy, just looks like a big block of plastic.

Global shipping only accounts for 2-3% of GHG emissions, so automobile emissions are still a much larger slice of the pie. The reality is that no meaningful progress is going to be made unless improvements are made across all sources emissions. The low-hanging fruit everywhere needs to be exploited. Making the power…