I’ll keep my relationship with my ‘76 BMW 2002 with mid-century modern BMW roundels, thank you very much.

3rd Gear. Then don’t buy Deere tractors. The farmers love the automation and remote maintenance. The tradeoff is the service contract. If the farmer messes around and screws something up then the fancy features don’t work and J-D has a customer service problem. I’ve been on both sides of this kind of issue and it is…

For an economy to operate, people create value (through labor, ideas, organization, lending capital), they trade their value for capital, and then spend that capital. It is a fair argument that currently people are not being fairly compensated for their labor and that needs some correction. However, rewarding people…

Because nothing says serious journalism like class envy.

Demo isn’t ready. Burn the place down.

Art enriching mankind.

Yo H-D, AMF.

And what magic revenue stream will fund this transition? They have the classic legacy company problem. They have creditors, investors, suppliers, employees, and pensions that rely on the big (but declining) revenue stream from their brand equity. If they chuck it they declare bankruptcy. I have heard this referred to…

So let’s distribute money to people so they can buy expensive inefficient crap they don’t need.

They ask you how much you owe on the trade so they can assess how stupid you are. 

TL;DR - don’t buy any car with a red fabric top.

Ford brought back the T-bird. It sucked.

A lesson in unintended consequences. German government policies that incentivize clean cars have made this sad little Twingo difficult/expensive to register. This keeps poor people from having cheap transportation that could allow them access to more/better jobs. One must ask if manufacturing a shiny new EV…

Bodywork and glass were expensive and heavy. Many automakers offered sedans and working convertible with side-curtains in the teens but the public preferred cheap and open. Besides, chicks love convertibles, even in 1917.

The Bolt is excellent engineering in search of design, marketing and vision. The dumpy design creates no emotion. GM does not actively market the cars because it loses money on them in low volumes, and that is where the vision fell short. Tesla sold cars at a loss because they could project ahead and see a time where…

Employment Rule #7: Don’t work for immoral or useless institutions and you won’t be unemployed when the world catches up.

To be honest, there wasn’t much to work with.

The FIA will rule on this with only thin regard to the actual letter of the regulations, the operation of the device, or any of their previous statements or precedents because they are French and everything is always about the politics of the situation. This time, Mercedes seems to have greased the skids well by…

For an offset to really work, it must fund a behavior that would not have occurred without the offset donation. Since you can’t prove what would have happened, you cannot account for carbon saved. Sure the money helps grease some projects that will help the environment but it is not a “carbon offset” and fuzzy math…

Just because they are related and connected, doesn’t make changing a steering component into a suspension component. Of course F1 called a mass damper a movable aerodynamic device because it affected the ride height of the wing, so what do I know?