They can put it on their resumes, but it does them a hell of a lot less good than if they could point people to an episode to go watch. (Getting footage from shows is notoriously difficult unless you have a reason to be involved in the post process).

Imagine taking this to shows, and the deflating process of explaining what it really is. The only plus being that most people would walk away before you got to the most humiliating moment, popping the hood.

Yeah, but I wonder how the shutdown of the Star Wars LARP hotel will be reflected on the balance sheet?

True. But they need content to be able to merchandise it! If they could just skip the show entirely and go straight to 3 billion Grogu t shirts, I’m sure they’d happily do it.

Soon enough, all streamers will begin showing ads, so we’ll long for the days of pay cable. 

I’m increasingly getting the impression that the heads of the studios would rather just get out of the whole entertainment business entirely and move into something more reliable like furniture wholesale

There’s premium and luxury. There’s expensive and luxury. Something can be expensive but not necessarily luxury. Not at all that different from clothing brands and accessories. A 100k Jeep is expensive and premium but still not luxury, even if the materials inside are luxurious. It comes across as a try-hard. To a…

ND. What’s with the “...unique silver metallic paint...”? Looks like every other gray/silver Mercedes I’ve ever seen. Original tires? Nice to include new ones but the originals should have been changed out a dozen years ago at least.

Every car is overpriced today. I went with my parents to look at motorcycles and cars like we used to, and a Navigator was $102,000!!! There was a used one equipped the same that was 3 years old and it was $56,000. My friend is looking for a Civic. It is all he has ever had and his current one is 11 years old. All of…

It’s easy enough to say that EVERYTHING is overpriced, right now. Definitely an indicator that new vehicles are becoming more and more out-of-reach to most middle-class Americans.

Why bother publishing this list if it is incomplete?

I work somewhere that makes some items that can kill people if they fail, for us a 0.02mm tolerance is extreme.  No-one is going to notice on a truck body.

I test materials for high purity process orbital welding and we don’t even get to those tolerances. Every time he pretends to be an engineer or manufacturing genius I have to laugh. If this is indicative of their work and QC, they’re going to be in a world of hurt.

There’s actually a pretty smart message in there. If you set such an unrealistic requirement, there’s a good chance people just sort of check out don’t bother to make it to a typical standard. 

To put this into perspective, a regular piece of printer paper is about 90 microns thick, so Elon expects a whole damn car to be accurate to within roughly 1/10 the thickness of a piece of paper. That’s not possible on a consumer vehicle. Hell, even that recent $30,000,000 Rolls Royce wouldn’t have tolerances that…

Another play for the galleries, like when North Korean dictators inspect shampoo factories and tell the workers how to screw on the caps better.

O-M-G. *shakes head multiple times*...Enough with the damn black wheels. Enough. I appreciate people having a vision and that they have worked and earned the money to make that vision become a reality. I get it. If this is what you had in mind, good for you.

I am a huge fan of all things panther platform, that being said vinyl top is an automatic ND.  Combine that with an aftermarket stereo and paint and I’m firmly in ND territory.  This is sad because IMO the LX is the Vic to get as it came factory with steel springs in the rear and eliminates the only weak point of the…

That’s... not really how it works

I understand that investment and capital is important but for decades markets have favored vaporware ideas more than companies that actually make and build things.