The XM never really made sense to me; although I’ll admit that the entire idea of a “super SUV” makes no sense to me either.

No love for the E60 M5 with its howling V10? I get that the styling of the E60 pales in comparison to the E39; but that engine really was something special, and it was available with a manual transmission.

That’s the biggest factor I think, especially because you’ll find the X5M in the same showroom. It looks a lot less gaudy, it costs less, and it performs about the same (the X5M is apparently quicker than the XM in Competition trim). Essentially discounting the XM by $20k puts it about even with the X5M in terms of…

So… Tesla plans on black listing the customers who are willing to spend $100k on their questionably made products, and they think that is a smart long term move why exactly?

I mean you’re taking about pretty limited production volumes with those examples. According to Elon, Cybertruck is going to sell 250,000 units per year…

And considering that getting divorced usually means having to split assets (cash, investments, property, etc.), going through with the purchase of the $100k truck seems like an even more questionable move.

Are we certain that the current owner actually wants to sell this car? Because the asking price suggests that may not be the case.

Hey don’t forget about “robotaxi 8/8”…

No, it’s just drugs and ego. Both of those things will fuck you up and make you unrecognizable; and he has no shortage of either one. 

He’s literally undermining Tesla out in the open now and diverting investment and developments away from the company. How any of the shareholders or board members can find this remotely acceptable is beyond my understanding.

This is issue with our current system of fines; even for stuff like SEC violations. If the penalties are less than the gains, then the fines just become “the cost of doing business”. The penalties should be more than the gains.

They got old?

How do I know summer is here? Because every asshole with a Harley has to unleash an aural assault whenever a stop light turns green.

It’s not a loophole, the whole system is designed to reward views/clicks. That’s where the ad revenue comes from. So, this problem of handsomely rewarding the biggest assholes is unlikely to change unless social media companies are forced to change their algorithms or filter out and remove content that they know is a…

You’re right that normally a BOD would intervene and remove a CEO in a situation like this, but this board is beholden to Elon; so there are no checks and balances. Don’t forget that Musk hand picked the people on the board; which includes his own brother and James Murdoch. 

Yes, that’s what happened when Tinucci pushed back on Musks request to fire more people than the original “10% cut”; he fired her and everyone else to send a message. What I was referring to was the request from Musk to fire additional people from the supercharger team to begin with; was that decision partially motivat…

I’m glad to see Lancia finally trying to stage some sort of a comeback, but man this new Ypsilon is an ugly little car (not that the last one was much to look at). I do mean that in a kind way, like one would say a bulldog is ugly but still lovable.

Isn’t Toyota launching a new GT3 car that is supposed to replace the Lexus RC as a road car? Pretty sure there was an announcement or interview with Toyota execs about that just a few days ago. And Toyota previously indicated plans to use the I6 motor developed by Mazda as part of the Lexus lineup. So the next “Supra”…

Was this perhaps part of motivation to firing the supercharger team? To deliberately slow roll the inclusion of other makes in the charging network?

This actually looks more like a WK2 successor to me than the current generation Grand Cherokee, but the Wagoneer name is definitely there so they can charge a premium.