Cost of car ownership is represented as a percentage of salary in that study right? Without stripping out insurance, isn’t this indicative of the fact that salaries are lower in Latin America, there’s less willingness or ability to pay, broadly speaking, and the cars are less-safe because too few people would be able…

I went to Revival 2018 knowing I would not be able to attend for the next 2-3 years, and seeing these photos brought back memories of what has arguably been one of the best weekends of my life.

The Taliban used to run the country in a “formal” sense, and now they don’t. I don’t know what you would call that, but to anyone else, that’s the definition of deposed.

You’ve made this comment quite a bit here and I don’t quite understand what you’re getting at. It was an organization harbored by Taliban-led Afghanistan, which was promptly invaded and the leadership deposed.

Didn’t they just shuffle the design team? Or did this pre-date that change, and if so, why didn’t they bin it.

At >$60 an hour, I would frankly be much more inclined to develop robots to do the majority of, if not all, of the human line work and avoid the biannual union agitation. The Big Three is more than happy to let the union negotiate jobs out of existence.

Does this really look like a McLaren F1 at all though? The windscreen shape is generally correct, but the front arches look way too high, the roof scoop looks slapped on, the front end ducts look nothing like any F1 variant, and even the taillights don’t look right.

Also depends on the school/quality of the education. Plenty of non-STEM go into consulting and banking from SLACs.

When you think about how many people it takes to make one car, and how the competitive market keeps pressure on margins, then it is pretty easy to see how someone sitting at a desk can be paid more. The market places a higher value on “knowledge” work because most anyone who is able-bodied could do it, even if they…

The bit about having a kid leading to you being an Amazon family doesn’t quite follow for me, especially if you live in NYC. You can’t throw a coffee cup without hitting a Duane Reade and I can’t believe those don’t stock diapers.

Sergio’s parting gift to FCA. 

Two things - one, my family has a Grand Wagoneer and I cannot agree enough on the great ride quality and seats, they are just the best. Two, I recently sold my 1968 Chevy pick up, and while I have a replacement vehicle I am very excited about, there was definitely something about taking a badly-running car and making…

My family has a ‘91 Grand Wagoneer, and we both love and hate it. The thing has had crazy reliability problems (crazy even considering it is 27 years old), but it is just so damn cool. The seats are couches, there’s plenty of space, and sure it’s slow but you’re not trying to get anywhere fast in it. It’s an icon in…

I’m saying that in terms of added features and design requirements, yes it is simpler. I am NOT saying that it is easier to engineer.

That’s true! That did turn out well. I don’t know if a rocket can be crammed full of features the same way a car is (similar, but different?). The Model X ballooned in cost and development time because Musk couldn’t make up his mind on what features he wanted in it. The rocket, well, it has to be able to go up, come…

I haven’t seen a single Model X where the door handles are properly aligned (front door handle usually a smidge below the rear door handle) and it annoys me more than it should.

I think that Tesla has a lot of issues to work through before Musk should nonchalantly drop planned products on Twitter. Instead of “new pickup,” the word should be “this is how we are actually going to meet all our deadlines and improve build quality.” I know a tweet is just a tweet and not a commitment to immediate…

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again; Elon Musk is not capable of crafting a single, cohesive, comprehensive strategy and sticking to it. He has great ideas and many of them have value, but he has to learn to not put the cart before the horse. I know that has to be hard given the number of ventures he is…

My neighbor has two of these (unsure which years) and let me drive one once because no one else in his family can drive manual and he wanted to experience the passenger seat. I don’t know if it was just that particular car but the brake pedal felt as if it did not move at all when I applied the brakes, and you really…

Because it’s the shirt equivalent of a mullet (laid back with a “formal” element)? Not that I don’t own pocket-tees, they’re very popular in my neck of the woods (I do not live in the woods).