2nd Gear: I prefer the way Tesla does it over the “Keep the MSRP high, but offer cash back” way legacy car makers do it.

3rd gear: Reminds me why I am not cut out to be an investor. What sane person would give that company a dime?

Tesla makes a pretty big show about how it doesn’t offer incentives

Wow, his brilliant advice is definitely what did it. You as a friend could never have said, “hey don’t buy what you can’t afford.”

Ha. I came here just to comment on Ramsey’s business with churches.

This. Many, many years ago, we bought one of his books and listened to a couple of his shows. His initial advice of not spending money you don’t have, and to pay off your credit cars and try and live a cash & carry lifestyle was good advice for the most part. He did admit that mortgages were fine, and to pay extra…

But you can give those people reasonable advice without giving information that is blatantly false.

Dave Ramsey is a stinking pile of shit and his show is for entertainment value only. He peddles basic financial advice like “spend less than you make” and has very limited understanding of financial planning. Ramsey works the church crowd because some churches get a kickback on fees. He is a quasi-televangelist. I’d…

Sasquatch Package, everyone claims to have seen one but it was never really there.

Plus we were still drunk on the Post 9/11 testosterone high, where we needed to be as big and as loud and as performatively patriotic as possible. Perfect HD market territory. Now, though, the boomers are getting older, the people who are performatively loud and in your face with their patriotism are seen as…

Forgot one: get a seat on a couple of boards of other companies and collect the compensation packages.

Neutral: like most CEOs, I would go golf, fire a few people, have a torrid affair including at least one regrettable text message, take free PPP money from tax payers while simultaneously lobbying to pay less taxes, make a career defining “seemed like a good idea at the time” decision that prioritizes money over the…

nah, better yet, get fired, and recieve a huge severance package valued much higher than your early earnings.

You get a call five minutes after reading The Morning Shift. It’s someone with a British accent you can’t understand because they’re also crying, and they tell you that you are now in charge of Jaguar Land Rover. What should you do?

Neutral: like most CEOs, I would go golf, fire a few people, then retire and collect my stock options and pension.

What did they do to that Chrysler?

Hey! That’s me!

I wish pickup trucks were just pickup trucks instead of 7,000lb luxo-barge container ships. I want my truck to be affordable, durable, simple, practical, utilitarian.

If you need one, yes.

ammeters only made sense back when cars had DC generators, the output of which depended heavily on engine speed. it wasn’t uncommon for cars to be discharging the battery at idle/low speeds because the generator wasn’t spinning fast enough so it was important to know which way current was flowing. Field-excited…