If we didn’t have Friends, then we wouldn't never had had the last 20 years of Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston love gossip. How would we have ever lived?

Dealers try to buy the cars in for service because the salesman wants the commission on whatever new car you buy, and the sales manager wants the used car trade in. Simple as that. A good, honest service manager should be telling some people that their car is not worth spending huge money on and suggesting they trade…

There’s different types of “poor.” There’s destitute, where no matter how good you are at budgeting, you just don’t make enough to pay the bills. Then there’s dumb poor, where you make enough money but you just misspend it. I sold cars for  years, and there’s plenty of dumb poor people making $100k a year - still with…

I work Uber/Lyft full time and have no problem making money at it. I would never want to be an actual employee of either of these terribly run companies. AB5 just seems like a way for the California legislature to stick it to Uber and Lyft for the benefit of their union and taxi cronies (yes I know AB5 addresses all…

Is it me or does it seem like all media is run by lazy interns copying and pasting from Google searches?

Me too. I’ve downloaded a bunch of these games, and they are all too frustrating to play on a tiny screen. I deleted all of them.

I don’t accept that ride. And my acceptance rate is over 90% on Uber and Lyft. It’s just the notion that they even offer that to a driver that’s galling.

That’s my point. They are driving the prices down to the point that they are competing against loaded family sedans, not luxury cars. A correct Cadillac sedan shouldn’t be less than $50k to start, but it would be large, RWD, with a real engine. The CT6 would be a good starting point. The Germans have already figured…

Yes! Everyone can see in their mind’s eye what a Cadillac should be, and NONE of today’s Cadillacs fit that mental image except the Escalade. Cadillacs need to be large, powerful, a little vulgar and expensive! An Ugly $35k sedan with a 2.0T is NOT a Cadillac. Neither is some tiny, plain looking $35k compact…

Yes. Since I was a kid in the 80s reading car magazines, I’ve been reading about Cadillacs (latest) renaissance. It’s the same story over and over. But sales keep getting worse. I just watched an old Motorweek video review of the 1992 Cadillac STS. Would you believe that it started at $35k in 1992!!!, and the new CT5…

That is literally even dumber than self driving cars. A remote driver can only drive one car at a time, so why not have the driver ACTUALLY INSIDE THE CAR? 

That is just one type of trip where it makes no sense. There is always the very common long pickup/short trip scenario that Uber and Lyft pull on drivers. Unless you keep you acceptance rate up so you can see the length of the trip, many drivers (especially new ones) end up driving 15-20 minutes for a 5 minute trip.…

The typical “few blocks” ride pays the driver around $3, some areas it’s even lower. So you drive 10 minutes to the passenger’s house, wait 5 minutes at the curb while they finish smoking their blunt, drive them 5 minutes down the road to Taco Bell, shuffle through the drive through line, then 5 minutes back home.…

The switch from a percentage based compensation for drivers to the Upfront Pricing was the moment drivers became employees. Under the percentage based compensation, drivers created the final fare through the act of driving the passenger - the route they took and the time it took.

Does it REALLY have enough capacity for those shopping trips? 2 pillows and the trunk is 1/2 full. Many of these utility vehicles are really lacking in the utility department.

This was on The Profit in March. The internets are a little slow. 

I don’t think it’s fair to expect Jay Z or any other successful black person to make financial decisions based on some sense of social justice. Only dumb (over educated) white liberals make self harming financial decisions based on some sense of higher morality.

It would be an interesting excessive to hook up a G-meter to different cars and measure how much performance people actually use. I’d say not much. I used to sell Hyundais, and I’d try to demonstrate the turbo motors by having the customers floor it when we got to the highway on ramp. People would do it, but…

So pedestrians somehow deserve to inconvenience another human? It’s rude and inconsiderate. I’ve actually watched people stand on the curb as the crosswalk sign counts down, then walk at the 2 second mark. Are you really intentionally delaying the drivers, or are you just dumb? Drivers have stop and go lights, so do…

But somehow drivers aren’t supposed to be mad when pedestrians cross against the signal.