I’m glad to see Oleg at least likely survives this show. He’s always been the most likable person on it - even as a KGB officer we never saw him kill anyone and he always seemed to do the right thing. At least in custody its a safe bet he isn’t offed. Worst case he does time.

Good. The show was great and deserved to be renewed. Being on streaming allows it to be more true to the source material than the restrictions on TV anyway. Amazon is really turning into my one stop streaming preference. I don’t really like any of Netflix’s originals (except maybe Seasons 1&2 of Narcos) but Amazon is…

I was wrong... like pretty much everybody. Was right about Marchessault though.

This... Their lack of possession is going to kill them against WPG and especially Vegas who’re relentless up front.

The average Tesla is a $150,000 car with all the modern safety features like side airbags etc which would obviously do better than a 8 year old corolla in a crash with a SUV. Compare Tesla fatalities involving its cruise control system to similarly priced, similar model year cars and that would be a much fairer…

Tesla should be banned from using ambiguity when it comes to advertising autopilot. Its time the FCC got involved and seriously looked at this because with the model 3, a lot more people can afford to be stupid and instagram themselves in the back seat of their Model 3 drinking beer and watching Netflix and get a rt…

Well its a Disney movie so I’m not sure I’d ever expect a bad movie. Some might end up being bland (Civil War) and a rare few controversial (TLJ) but I can’t remember anything that was outright bad. You have to respect the mouse’s consistency across directors and franchises. I was expecting a average, very…

Counterpoint - people are stupid.

Very obvious but SUVs and crossovers. I’ve always respected serious off roaders like Jeeps, Landcruisers and Range Rovers but the current tall car fad is a horrible direction for the auto industry and humanity as a whole. It seems like vanity sizing for cars - people are fatter and fatter and their cars increasingly…

You’re wrong of course. The HUD is pretty much the only new tech feature I appreciate on modern cars. It lets you keep your eyes on the road at all times and the best system (BMW) lets you change media/playlists, nav directions and multiple other features with the buttons on the steering wheel using the HUD as an…

W212 AMG. It’s still an amg and it’s better value than the e400. Whatever you do don’t test drive the new one. Like you I have a 991 gts and wanted to trade in my m4 for a supersedan around a 60k budget net. I was almost decided on buying a 2016 e63 but I went and drove a lightly used cpo 2018 e63 amg s and ended up…

I own the sedan version and I couldn’t be happier with it. You description of comfort mode is pretty much perfect. Theres a distant thundering rumbly noise as you’re smoothly past triple digits in seconds. Its almost as impressive as the unhinged race start. 

Its unclear to me how much cash flow S&X sales actually generate. TSLA is nearly unique on the street in not including stock based compensation (a massive expense) and R&D in its income statement (that’s why everything they report is non GAAP). They also count sales of ZEV credits and discounting in margin calcs.…

Yep... I’m not saying its a good model. Its the only way to explain how a company that’s incinerated tens of billions of shareholder $s over 10+ years is still in business. They’re masterful at managing hype cycles and using them to pump the stock ... all with the cooperation of a bunch of idiots, do gooders and…

It actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that Tesla’s primary product isn’t the cars, its the stock. Everything Elon does is with the objective of keeping the stock pumped. Keep more vaguely defined “growth” a couple of years away (the more nebulous the details the better) and there are enough true believers…

Its possible - you’d have to turn on cylinder deactivation and transmission sail (basically keep start/stop on) and use the semi autonomous cruise mode which does a good job keeping the engine off boost in the V4 mode. One interesting thing is the recommended fuel spec is 91 octane minimum instead of the 93 minimum in…

I’ve had my sedan for a month and so far I’m getting 15-16 mpg with 80% highway driving. I have seen 18-19 mpg with start/stop, cylinder deactivation and transmission decoupling enabled but I don’t like using those features most of the time. On the few occasions I’ve really gotten on it economy drops as low as 11. Its…

What I don’t get is shouldn’t the car have some systems that prevent this kind of behavior. My E63 will completely turn off distronic and yell loudly if both my hands aren’t on the wheel for 10 seconds.

Agreed - all these “semi autonomous” systems do is encourage people to be even worse drivers.

Elon Musk actually rted a video of somebody doing just this once. They say all the things they’re required to say by law but there always seems to be a nod and a wink towards behavior like this from the top.