Oof, sounds like Honda had an absolute field day with your friend, eh?

I like your ideas and would like to receive your newsletter. Here’s some more thoughts: it could be filled with platoons of hundreds of trucks coupled together pulled by a large truck at the front. Wait, we could also use steel wheels to reduce rolling resistance!

Oh Oh Oh! Even more ideas! What if we expand on the tractor-trailer concept a bit more and make a really, really big tractor which is basically just a giant engine? It’ll be the giant engine on wheels! We could just call the ‘Engine’ for short.

Man I think I have another breakthrough on top of that... imagine the trucks didn’t have rubber wheels, but steel conical ones that would run on tracks! That way they don’t even have to turn! Paths can be “programmed” in by building the tracks to go in specific directions - obfuscated behind a neural network of…

What would be cool is if we could give the trucks their own road. Except it wouldn’t be made of asphalt or concrete. It would be much stronger, built to bear the weight of shipping. Maybe steel. And then you could put the trucks on grooved wheels with no tires to reduce friction.

Platooning expects an inconsistent world to act consistently.

My friend was looking for a Hybrid Sedan for commuting in, we went to CarMax and they had a hybrid MKZ on the lot. A 2017 with just 20K on the clock was a hair over $21,000.  He drove it and liked it, but went with the Accord Hybrid that was a year older, a bit more miles and $6,000 more.  Shit I should have gotten…

I am a car person whose friends are not car people. I generally don’t bore them with car stuff unless they ask about something in particular.

Yep. It’s not exact, but it’s certainly derivative. You can see it in the “Y” in particular. The claim that they didn’t copy Whyte is complete and utter bullshit.

And they'll have to change their name to "Median-Income Energy".

Too similar to the logo they ripped off

That’s been an issue for the last decade. 

It didn’t seem to have an effect last year. Rising interest rates however...

I know I’m not like wealthy, but I’m married with 1 kid, both of us have fine jobs, nothin extravagant. Most any new car appropriate for a family is out of reach unless we take one of those 200 month loans. Something tells me this wasnt the case when my parents were getting started.

And sky high housing costs.

Or that the buying experience is still a giant antiquated pain in the ass. 

Or an entire generation hitting the job market with loads of debt. 

Or 84 month auto loans.

I’m sure declining sales have nothing to do with the $37,000 average car price.