“Better slap some buzz words on it so it looks like we did more. How about instead of a twinned manifold we call it a “super-manifold” and better sexy up that it uses 8 valves too”

How about, “Why did it take Tesla this long to add a Heat Pump?”

1st gear: Carvana didn’t “swallow” the poison pill, it would be a potential acquirer that would swallow it.

Neutral:

Yet he won’t loose the support of anyone who voted themselves out of a new job. But at least they’ll have a lot of time to congratulate themselves about how they stopped CRT from (*not) being taught in elementary school.

“Party of Small-Minded Government"

I think the Norway gear should note scale there. Looks like just under 175k new cars were sold in Norway in ‘22. So even the US at 5% of 14mm, we sell 4-5x more EV’s then they bought total cars in ‘22 or about 5.5x more EV’s.

And even if he steps down, he’s still the owner. There’s no way a half-competent CEO would take that position. Even if they were able to implement a plan without interference (not likely), they’d constantly have to beg Musk for equity funding because of Twitter’s cash flow issues and the debt burden that Musk put on…

..and he’ll continue tweeting stupid s**t. I think the curtain has been pulled on the wizard.

Which is worse, this or the Hummer EV’s situation?

If CR only reported things that killed a vehicle and made it impossible to run, the best scoring car of all time would be a 96 Chevy Cavalier.

Thing is, this business should have been a total no-brainer money-maker. The used car market is ripe for a major roll-up. They could have been Carmax with much lower overhead (no need for large retail shops and lots of sales staff). The whole notion of buying and financing your car hassle-free online, getting it…

My suspicion is there isn’t one. The whole thing has a very impulsive, off-the-cuff feel to it, from the initial offer to retracting it to abruptly giving up on retracting it when it was clear it would be a legal pain in the ass. Every move he’s made and instantly cancelled fell through because of very predictable…

While I’m neither an engineer nor a PhD in math I AM a CPA and estate planner. A fact I make clear when I buy a car by handing over one of my business cards.

I used to work at Tesla in the early days, and would moonlight for sales on the weekend doing test drives and evaluating trade-ins. One Day a Russian lady came into the dealer with her used model s and wanted to trade it in for a new one. It was odd to us because she had only bought it six months ago.

You win 

An angry wife pulling a gun on the receptionist of the Volkswagen dealership I worked at. Her husband, one of the salesmen, was cheating on her with one of the receptionists. She showed up and pulled a gun on the one at the front desk. It was the wrong one. In the end nobody got hurt, but that was pretty tense.

LOL, the U.S. is a net exporter of crude oil.... so, guess what... we do produce our own! The rest of your diatribe is similarly misinformed.

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