Tesla has sold ~300,000 cars in the entire history of the company. You are living in an area with an unusual number of sales, but also noticing it because of your interest. And because you don’t keep statistics on what a lot is (you say 10 Tesla’s while driving past say 100,000 other cars), it can seem like a lot. But…
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Pffft, you just tell outlook to not deliver before (insane seeming time) and presto, you look like you’re working around the clock.
My local stupid super-shop club, BJ’s (I can’t believe they haven’t rebranded that name yet), offers the ability to “buy” a car too. I don’t know what the in-store experience is, but they have their own limited online portal:
I can be summoned with a 6 pack of beer. Or one of those crafty-tall-boy 4 packs.
When her dad buys her a MT Mazda Protege without any notice and says, “Larry will teach you!”. One day and many tears in a very sleepy section of Providence is all it took. Now she actually likes having a MT car and it’s a point of pride that she can drive one.
Now would be a good time to get your deposit back. I finally convinced one of my good friends that giving Tesla $1k to burn is not a great use of his money. This took a year and a growing realization on his part that production isn’t ramping like promised, and probably never will. Be a Tesla fanboi, totally fine. But…
Boston guy here as well. I live in the ‘burbs in a small-ish town and see plenty of Tesla’s all over the metro region. But I have yet to see a single Model 3.
Yeah, but when roster churn involves getting rid of Kelly Olynyk, Jae Crowder, broken Isiah Thomas, Jonas Jerebko I would say that’s a net positive. They barely got by the Wizards in the playoffs last year. The Wizards are a partially dysfunctional NBA franchise.
Dammit, he spells it Dwane.
I’m a Celtics homer, but even I know Dwayne Casey is coach of the year.
Minivan is my answer. More affordable, plenty of cargo room, can tow or stow on the roof. Plus hauls people in a pinch.
Power move.
I pay $80/month to insure an ‘09 Mazda 3 and a 2016 Mazda 6. The Mazda 3 doesn’t see many miles as I work from home, but the Mazda 6 gets 25k+/year. This is in suburban Boston and I have the GEICO Mechanical Breakdown insurance to extend the paltry Mazda 6 warranty (already out of miles). Yes I’m 40, have two kids and…
When I was in graduate school in Providence, RI (2001) I got a quote for my newly acquired 1994 Ford Escort Station wagon (in 90s teal, hell yeah!). Told the guy I had off street parking both at work/school and at home and would be driving under 100 miles a week. Quote at the time? $1400 for the year. That was the…
Uber scaled by using win-at-any cost unethical business practices and burning gobs of investor cash. Part of that play was to subsidize the actual cost of providing a ride so consumers would use it over traditional public transit . Uber loses money on every ride it provides, that is a lot of your investor cash going…
So they’re going to sell cars to Avis/Zipcar?
Sister Jean saves. And destroys higher seeds.
More like a team that got off the bus thinking W and never adjusted their effort to match the Celtics scrubs intensity. Their team defense was bad.
There’s lots of good business writing out there. You can follow individuals or key blogs. The Financial Times has a high pay wall, but FT Alphaville is quite good. The WSJ is mostly trash now, but many good reporters remain. For blogs I recommend Naked Capitalism highly. Wolfstreet.com is also great. Those two blogs…