I can’t imagine who the target market is that would spend $50,000 to own this.

I keep forgetting that they’re still alive

Read the story, not just the headline.

I keep forgetting Tesla’s still alive

Carmaker: tries to sell car based on rose-tinted memories, hoping legacy of name will make people want car

Blogger: STOP COMPARING CAR TO PAST CAR

Exactly. Also, if I were deaf in one ear, I’d be EXTRA careful on train tracks. I’m already paranoid about unprotected railroad crossings as it is, no way would I be driving over one without stopping to look if I knew I’d be unable to hear a train coming.

They could have used an existing platform and given it a refresh like the Nissan Z, and come up with something both affordable and desirable. I wish they had.

Maybe not visually impressive like an NSX, but at least it had character once.

Acura failed at managing expectations. If they’d said a new four door hatch was coming out, given it a new name, and avoided invoking the Integra, people would have probably liked this.

Nice catch! I didn’t see that one.

Headline: “Hey this is fun, you can drink until you black out!”

Headline: “Hey this is fun, you can drink until you black out!”

Thanks, I hate it.

Try as I might, I can’t find anything from the first lot that I would choose.

It’s hilarious when people go to all the trouble of burying a time capsule in the ground, only to have someone come along and open it just 50 years later. It’s not like we’re all wandering around thinking “I wonder what life was like for the unknown people in the distant unrecorded past of the 1970s.”

Gosh, I hope they’ve got some engineers to think about these things. You should let them know before they run through the whole $35 million without hearing your concerns.

Feels like if you need to “find someone who understands taxes,” that’s your evidence right there that the tax code is too fucked up and complicated in the first place.

FTA:

None of those do what the Ritmo does.

F1 revenue per year: $2,000,000,000 (2 billion)

My mentor chose to do that rather than retire. He and his wife sold their house, bought the nicest RV they could, and he works “from home” as they travel the country.