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True if you only care about short term inflation. Our environment collapsing is going to cause inflation at a catastrophic level if we don’t get our shit together.

People interested in cars don’t buy these. People not interested in cars have no idea what the names are and they point at an advertisement and say “nice” and then buy from the picture.

You’re not wrong but you do have to include shipping from SA.

Most theaters already have that so it’s not really a thing. For instance a mom with an infant can watch a movie without being charged in most cases.

Yeah, they were straight line fast. No doubt.

Dodge Omni GLH (Goes Like Hell), 175 hp fun if you didn’t mind the high risk of rolling it due to it’s insanely soft sway bars but also having a brutal ride due to stiff shocks. Ah Shelby. And built with all the quality 80s and 90s Chryslers were known for.

You’re wrong and even if you weren’t this race still wouldn’t cost more than $100k. If they raised over $1M that’s at least a 10X ROI.
This doesn’t get paid for with private owner car insurance. That has literally nothing to do with this. This is going to be covered under the race organizers and the cities general…

Well, I hope you don’t have a gambling problem because your bet is way off. It costs about $15k to shut down for a 10k with cop monitoring in Portland, which is 3 times the size of St. Petersburg. Insurance covers the cost of the DUI collision. Which may have been a far worse collision if it didn’t happen at the…

Yeah, in the the Bloomberg link, in this post, that talked about cost, it was pointed out that current high speed rail is at about $154M per mile. So Hyperloop is currently estimated at 1/3 the cost... This is a super weird article that feels like it had no editorial oversight. Why is a tech that’s 3x the cost and 3x s…

Definitely. But also it looks way better on that a100 in your pic.

This already doesn’t meet US LATCH requirements. In the US you are required to have 3 tethers in the vehicle if there are 3 or more rear seating positions. So the middle row would have to have 3 tethers to meet US LATCH rules. 49 CFR 517.225 S4.3(b)(1) for anyone curious.
If it did have 3 on the middle row it isn’t…

Prices have gone up for sure, the 7k Quickjack was regularly on sale for $1100. Also Gregg Smith closed here in Portland. Which is lame.

I’ve never seen a 2 post delivered on a lift gate and so far I haven’t seen a single company that doesn’t qualify that their shipping will not use a lift gate, be interested if you have one you can point out. Although it doesn’t change the part where we are comparing $1100-1700 delivered and ready to use versus a $3k-4…

For sure, but that would add even more cost.

Yep they sell refurbs online also and usually have a couple for around that same price. Same warranty as new. It’s really a reasonable price if you do your own work.

Yeah, jack stands are not likely to add safety to this as the car will have a lateral movement when it drops. I did see a guy cut and split some chromoly tubing that he strapped to the piston as a secondary safety. The people who think you will tip this sideways are crazy. Assuming you are lifting a 3000 lb car using…

4 post lifts are rarely less than $4k and 2 post lifts require concrete that is flat and level, 5" - 6" thick, 3000 PSI grade, with embedded anchors, to install. Both are usually so large and heavy that they require a forklift or power hoist to unload, a lift gate is not sufficient. Most home garages are sloped,…

Apples and Oranges

$2-3k gets you the parts of a 2 post lift. You then have to either have a thick and flat enough floor to handle it or you have to cut out a section of the current floor and install flat concrete footings. 5"-6" of 3000 PSI concrete cures in 2-4 weeks. Nearly all home garages have a slope and are not…

Want and need are 2 different things. It also wants to report the location back so that they get more data points. If you don’t give it location data it still works just fine. It just doesn’t report the location back to Apple.