Did you have to give the money back? If not, that is in fact a success.

You didn’t mention anything about getting high first, I think that’s where you fucked up.

It’s only rich people food when you use the fancy French word for it.

If that booth did fit in with the motif they already had going that would be a bigger story.

And yet I still find myself in the pro-booth camp on this one.

“Your CyberTruck failed to check in last month. We’ve removed all the features, please contact Tesla support.”

The consumer bears the brunt of it because the consumer is driving the demand.

This is true. I pickle the entire sack of onions when I do it, it’s not like they go bad once they’re in a mason jar in the fridge. Somehow that is still not an adequate amount of pickled onions as I manage to run out at the least opportune time.

It’s not a necessity, capitalism can deal with high labor costs just fine. It just means that not everyone is going to be able to afford an iPhone, and that’s apparently a bridge too far for us.

Just pickle it. It’ll kill whatever was alive on your onion, and then you’ll have pickled red onions which are delightful.

It’s a particularly baffling move given how strong the economy was up until recently. For the last decade we’ve been in a position where investments can easily earn you 7%+ returns, and car loans happen at <3% interest.

Yeah, in hindsight I suspect it was an IMS failure but before Porsche had publicly acknowledged the problem. That engineer would’ve been part of a larger effort to figure out the scale of what they were dealing with, once they had enough data they probably stopped sending engineers all over.

Or you have bad/no credit.

Unread email contest time!

And all the people who bought the DSG were wrong and they should feel bad about their decision.

They weren’t asking to paint over it, just put another mural up somewhere else.

I find that Tom usually gives pretty sound financial advice as it relates to cars. There are very few absolute truths, everyone’s situation is different, and he frequently doesn’t get the full picture from what people send to him.

My mom had a 2001 Boxster, bought it brand new. After ~60k miles, engine ate itself. It’s possible this was early on in the IMS bearing issue, or it was an unrelated failure.

This.

I dunno if you’ve been paying attention but basically everyone is broke right now. There’s plenty of room in the market for many manufacturers to cater to people with poor credit.