I stuck to my guns on refusing to step foot in their location until they verified an actual price on a used car. Expectedly, it was $3K higher than the online price, before any in person shenanigans occurred.

With the amount of Twitter held by institutional shareholders that traditionally don’t exercise voting rights, anyone know what Musk’s functional voting power is? Do we count in a bro multiplier to go along with it?

Thanks for the clarification. Duncan stepped in it.

I had interpreted the discussion on squashed comments to be after the shill bid, but that's a fair take as well. If it's documented that BaT removed comments that stated he was intentionally bidding on the auction to prevent a sale and then they let the goading comment stand, that removes much of the negative from…

Gary would have been much better off if his comment had been that he was nuke bidding, rather than something that most would take as goading to bid against him.

““The automotive press, including myself, should be eating humble pie over this. I’ve written about Toyota’s strange trepidation around pure-electric vehicles many times before around these parts. It just always seemed odd to me that the company responsible for endearing hybrids to the public has seemingly lagged…

Well, one 20th of a billion in this case. The ownership of the few half billion ones seems to have been sorted already.

Clearly the last union agreement was not as good as reported if people can still be compelled to write articles like this.

That’s one of the better looking yachts that’s shown up in these stories.

E85 appears to be having a moment now that none of our family cars will run on it. It used to be rare that it hit the 20% cost differential necessary to justify it, but last time I filled up I noticed it was a robust 32% down from E10. ($4.39 vs $2.99)

This isn’t a 16K option though. This is a 12K option, which lets you bank 4K against future repairs because you’re buying a used car.

Given the budget precludes a minivan, but it sounds like they wish they could have one, surprised the Mazda 5 didn’t get a mention.

Nor did I say they did. In this case the writer would be Raph, for whom saying incredibly nonsensical things is rather the MO.

The Holocaust stopped more than 70 years ago. There’s no time limit on discussing man-made atrocities. If we don’t keep them fresh in our mind, they’re easier to repeat.

Obligatory SsanYong eye bleach post:

I foolishly thought the email writer was questioning the EV’s abilities to contend with extreme temperatures in general, as that has been an oft noted issue, but that baffling response informed me I was overthinking things.

Tom writes articles like someone that makes sense of nuanced numbers all day, and I’m here for it.

While Ukraine is fairly small compared to Russia, calling the largest country in Europe (besides Russia) tiny is pretty stupid.

Right?

That’s because women’s clothing companies like making sales more than clothes. Size creep was a thing in clothing long before cars.