The only reason we’ve seen mortality rates that are lower is because the US and Canada was relatively successful in NOT overloading the healthcare system. Shutting down helped. Starting up again before the testing and tracking infrastructure is in place is a mistake. Just look at Brazil.

And Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The point is that there is a morbidity rate of ~.026, and 90% of those who passed were either very elderly (who are easy to protect if proper precautions are taken) or those who are already immunodeficient (again, with proper precautions, they can be protected as well). The general…

Actually an adaptive cruise control system might ignore it because radars are tuned to ignore stationary objects, as that is how the environment looks to it.

I’m not convinced the design encourages abuse so much as it simply puts too much faith in people not to abuse it. The assumption is that if you warn people enough and push them to be responsible, they will be. The reality is a certain subset never will be. They’re being given a system appropriately named based on how…

I own a 2009 G37. It is a reasonably priced, fast, reliable, moderately attractive, good handling, and overall fun to drive four door sedan (compared to a Camry). My prescription is for them to go back to building things like the G37 - quality, inexpensive, RWD alternatives to the Germans.

There actually weren’t that many used cars sold at auction. The whole market was in stasis for about 6-8 weeks. Manheim volumes were down like 80%. Most used dealers just kept their inventory listed at the same price from March 1st onwards.

I accounted for the various loan forbearance programs in my math. Most people not in the industry are unaware that loan delinquencies were already up last year. Borrowers have been struggling for the last 10 months as high-interest, sub-prime loans have proliferated.

I doubt lenders will be quick to repossess. My various lenders are absolutely THROWING Covid-19 assistance offers at me (that thankfully I don’t need). My sister-in-law, who has such shitty credit that my mother had to co-sign for her truck, got a 6mo forbearance on the truck payment just for asking. The lenders are…

Actually, if you go back to read Tom’s previous reporting, it said that wholesale/auction pricing took the big hit. He also reported that retail pricing was holding fast at the time. Which means the divorce between pricing to the dealer and end prices to the consumer was not reflected in the market’s short-term…

The Hertz bankruptcy will not severely impact the used car wholesale market. The Hertz vehicles will not be sold en mass. The lessors of those units will gradually auction them off over the course of 12-18 months. They will still take a significant loss on each unit. Most of Hertz’s fleet are compact and mid-size…

I work for a car dealer and the reason is basically what you said. A lot of people who would normally buy new are switching to used and a lot of people with big, expensive loans are looking to get into less expensive cars they can pay for in cash or with drastically lower monthly payments. We’re selling basically no…

Not even! He bought the 2018 used in 2019 and now wants to ditch it in 2020. So TWO people disliked it enough to each dump it after a year!

It was really confusing that they weren’t a simple design made of wood to a high standard.

And that’s a STAR for “grille bagels”!

You thought Ford was outsourcing the hoods to an obscure Christian sect?

Ahh, the classic rotating Boss, Bullit, Mach 1 nameplates has revolved around to Mach 1 again. Something to fill that “special, but not Shelby special, but more special than California Special” trim.

Why does it need grille bagels instead of just grille mesh? That is not attractive.

The base 5.0-liter V8 currently makes 460 horsepower and 420 lb.-ft. of torque and the Shelby GT350's 5.2-liter flat-plane crank V8 makes 526 hp and 429 lb.-ft. of torque, leaving about 100 hp of wiggle room for the new Mach 1 if you take Ford literally.

I WONDER WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE GUYS THAT CAMO IS SO HIDEY