If you want to participate in the gig economy with your Tesla, go nuts. After 5+ years of taxi duty that car will be worthless, and the morsels of revenue share Tesla pays you might offset the car’s accelerated depreciation, maintenance, and repair costs.

Businesses buy assets that make them money all the time. A fundamental aspect of accounting is that the asset still depreciates in value over time, not to mention the including of incremental costs of maintenance, unplanned repairs, etc.

And how many Tesla owners will want to do this exactly.  Can you delude yourself to even say 5%?

“It’s so new they ain’t got a name for it yet,” [Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey] told the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon appearance.

Two things:

You do realize that 52.5 mpg was based on an older test result, so that roughly equates to ~40mpg on the sticker right now. Many current vehicles are close or exceed it.

“Still better than Hillary. ...and that is really sad.”

There’s no way this is better than Hillary. I’ll take mediocrity over a dumpster fire taking a raging shit on twitter every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Elon Musk generally defines ‘soon’ as ‘several times further into the future than you might expect from my pronouncements’.
e.g. the $35k Tesla originally flagged as arriving in 2013/2014, and actually arriving in May 2019; or high levels of weekly Model 3 production happening by December 2017, and actually happening…

You’re right. According to this, the typical American holds on to their vehicles for 6.5 years, up from 4.3 years in 2006. I assume this trend will continue as vehicles become more expensive, and loan terms become longer and longer.

Just like every new house has granite/quartz everywhere.

Much like with phones, if you want a new car with the latest-and-greatest features, much of which you absolutely do not need, you’ll have to pony up a lot more than you used to, and you’ve got to really want a new car. Especially if your car that’s just a few years old is fine.

You haven’t driven in Georgia. These fuckers NEED this, as standard equipment.

...were you divorced for anger issues?

Neutral: I love my Mazda, I really do. But one of the things I love about it most is that it’s not a luxury car or brand. Over the decades I’ve driven numerous BMWs, a Porsche and a Mercedes, and frankly, I was getting tired of the luxury world. What I wanted was something simple, reliable, affordable and fun to…

Neutral: I really enjoy Mazda. I drive a Miata as my daily, and I would absolutely consider buying something like a Mazda 3 down the road when I grow up and actually start driving a grown-up car, some day.

Click-baity headline is click-baity.

Idk. Sync 3 isn't just terrible. It's kinda dull but it seems to work fine. Also I haven't heard just terrible things about their power trains. They've been making the 3.5tt for almost a decade now and I don't hear a lot of people saying to stay away from it. Same with the 2.3 i4 or the 2.7 v6 but I think both of…

And to go back to the California University (in PA), it was named after the town it was in, which had been named.. in 1849, when everyone was moving to California. Ok, maybe it was a way to attract color blind miners to the Pittsburgh area?

Have you driven a Ford lately? Something tells me you haven’t.