True enough.

I agree. A 12 year old Tesla with 150 miles of range for $5k or so would be a compelling buy. Just keep the minimum insurance on it and drive it day in and day out for local stuff, and there’d be hardly any maintenance costs to worry about. 

Freaking awesome. That, right there, is leadership. 

The only downside, sadly, is that if you have to deal with a human being to swap the battery. I’m a 6'2" 200lb male and I still feel a bit vulnerable at most gas stations off I-95; the last thing I want to imagine is my wife or daughter having to pull into a place like that at 11pm and have some sketchy looking…

I actually agree with most of that, and you can apply those filters to everything from the Toyota Corolla to Volvo wagons, both of which have been true to their audiences year after year. I don’t know about the Corvette, though, as it’s been everything from a want-to-be euro roadster fighter (C1) to a racer (C2) to a…

And in the 4 years he’s been running Boeing they haven’t even posted a profit. He woudn’t say if they used settlement payouts against income to offset taxes (you bet they did!). He “couldn’t recall” if any of their hundreds of millions in settlements were paid by insurance.

I can’t give this response enough stars.

Looking around at this wonderful, peaceful, smoothly-running world we have now, I’d be happy to swap the male/female ratio of leadership in government, business, science and education for a decade and see how things shake out... 

Yes, I just read the coverage of his testimony on CNN.com. What astounding arrogance. 

As one slide mentioned, the 911 is essentially timeless — it is the way it always was, which is the pinnacle of “almost-attainable-to-man” performance. I think every other car on this list will become iconic of its time, but none will be timeless. Legos are timeless, Duracell batteries are timeless, Oreo cookies are…

85% order accuracy is pretty damn awful. Would you fly an airline that has a screw up on 85% of its flights? Would you go to a doctor that messes up that often? Would you do business with any company that drops the ball once in every 30 transactions?

Beautifully kept car, and I’m sure it drives nicely. But at the end of the day who really wants a $16K, 22 year old car of limited use? It’s too nice to put kids in the back, too expensive (and nice) to daily drive, and for that kind of money there are more fun and interesting weekend cars out there. Plus, it’s been…

Best line from that 2010 article about Timberlake introducing the A1:

I’m going to give this a sympathetic NP. Not for me, but for a future contributor to todays “what lesson did you have to learn the hard way” question. Let some 18 year old buy this, monkey around with it -- and maybe actually get this stuff fixed -- all in a vehicle that looks kinda cool and isn’t quite as easy to…

For you, the cat, or the Stomper?

Public Service Notice posted on behalf of those who cannot reply to this thread for self-evident reasons: Never use one of those cheap harbor-freight spring compressor “tools” where you say a prayer before and after every 1/4 turn of your socket wrench. 

Cheap cars are not a bargain. My dad wisely taught me this lesson when I was about 17 in 1986 or so. I found a 1971 Audi 100 for sale for $200. Seller said it ran, but it wouldn’t start up when we looked at it. Towed it home with a strap behind my dad’s Toyota truck (see, he really was smarter than me) and then it sat…

I came here to post about Stompers, too! Those things were the best. Spent many, many hours in the back yard running those over courses I created -- and ruined a lot of mom’s flowerbeds, too. 

Fourth Gear: What are the odds that WW3 is sparked by a Tesla FSD incident in a Chinese city? It will take generation of historians to unwind the politics and ironies.

Looks much better, and frankly they should just make this the standard front end. And yea, as someone else mentioned, this was supposed to be an affordable car. I’ve seen exactly one in the wild since these came out. At $35-40K I’d probably be spending my time on Nissan’s configurator night after night until I broke…