Didn't catch whatever it was, but as clarification: I think Twitter is perfectly fine (I'm a user), but people tend to suck most when squeezing their commentary into 140 characters, it seems.

I just want everyone on Twitter to get fucked.

It's pretty straightforward, and most receipts should present the tax as a line-item: taxing varies far more by jurisdiction in North America (country, state, county/parish, and city), so taxes aren't as streamlined, and thus most items are presented gross of tax to reflect the consistency in pricing at the firm…

That doesn't exactly support your thesis, though, given that they sold, roughly, a metric fuckton of Teslas in Texas.

Can this finally kick off a long-overdue discussion in the public eye about the problems that exist because the US government insists on maintaining our global tax structure when every other developed country runs on a territorial system?

Aside from addressing the supposed irony, I'll address the tax situation: in no way does this allow them to "dodge" taxes. It does, however, allow them to control the flow of taxation; the end amount paid will be the same (theoretically), but they pay in taxes in the US only what they repatriate in income to the US.

No, not at all, hope I didn't come off as butthurt about it. Just one of those things where if you haven't been around it it's hard to know!

a. It's not snow, it's ice; I think that's the single greatest issue that folks who deal with winter conditions on a regular basis don't understand about wintry precipitation in the South, especially Texas. They're entirely different beasts.

Dear god, is there anything more illuminating than reading Gawker-reader commentary on anything involving financial statements?

Oh dear God, I recognize those apartments!

Spec sheet

I started with an m235i, because as cool and jalop-sounding as the 4-banger may be, when I'm making a car perfect, I'm not going to turn down free horsepower.

That's an incredibly broad conclusion to draw from an otherwise poignant set of facts. There have been plenty of engineer-managers that have bungled firms, and there are plenty of business-background managers that have led successful firms which sold products with an engineering focus.

So where does the money come from? Cheaping out? Platform sharing? I'm not concerned, but I am curious.

My point precisely.

Shit. Shouldn't have looked that up. Now I want a VFR800.

Preach on, Jerry.

But does anybody really look at a Fox-Capri and go "Man, that's SO 70s?" That's what you say when you look at a Mark IV/V Lincoln, or a Colonnade GM product.

Hey hey, we have a winnah! Everybody loves a Fox body, and yesterday's nicely kept 1979 Capri proved pretty lovable for its modest price, earning itself a 63% Nice Price win. That Capri was pretty emblematic of the '70s and today we're going to have a candidate that while almost a carbon copy in concept, is fully '80s…

I think VW shot themselves in the foot by saying they'd sell 800K cars here by 2018 instead of picking a regular growth % target. Now we'll know when they've failed.