Florida. Why isn’t that surprising?

This is definitely more of a thing. Sonic in particular go with a no haggle price on all their used or cpo cars. That doesn’t mean you can’t negotiate though. I bought a CPO 2018 E63S AMG this year and eventually paid the asking price. What I did get a significant uplift on was my trade in M4 and a few dealer coverage…

As tired as I am seeing Hamilton win, I must concede that he really deserves this title. Ferrari is at worst as fast as the Mercedes and for the first time in the turbo hybrid era, the Mercedes is clearly the slower car in a straight line. Vettel lost the championship because he kept making errors that could have been…

Ditto. I grew up in England and have spent a lot of summer vacation time driving all over Europe where it’s easy to national stereotype by the standardized EU license plate. The Germans are a little too good for their own good. They will follow the rules and the signage to the point of standing out in traffic and…

I like the concept and the attitude they took to push out the proverbial boat on design but I’m not sure I like the way the rear end has come together. Jaguar executed this much better on both the XJ220 and the bond villain concept they did a few years back.

Its a shame they couldn’t keep all three on. The last series was genuinely the best Top Gear in well over a decade but I guess Leblanc was never a long term answer because he’s American. I think Reid left to join Carfection on youtube. I’ve watched some of Paddy’s stuff on cars and he’s very funny and also seemed a…

I’ll go ahead and say it - Better Call Saul is a better show than Breaking Bad. What started off in my mind as a light hearted, lower quality spinoff of Breaking Bad has turned into a deeper, even better acted, even better made show. When this finally ends in a season or two, I’d really want to know what’s next for…

The interesting thing about the rumored settlement that Musk rejected was the requirement that he step aside as chairman and appoint two independent outside directors. It made no mention of him having to step aside as CEO. This is critical because it makes it seem like Musk is hell bent on avoiding the oversight that…

Yeah but paying 50b when you can get everything you want for a tenth of that is financial malpractice. “Mobility” is a side project for GOOG/AAPL that the investors tolerate because the cash spend and capital outlay are a miniscule percentage of total R&D. Buying a capital incinerator like TSLA at an insane valuation i…

Nothing’s impossible but it makes no sense at these valuations. Telsa is not worth anything near its $50b market cap. If they drop to ~$10b, the plants, brand name and charger network might be tempting to somebody. Then again if it does trade down to those levels its clear that that market would have given up on the…

The strikes on the converts are definite motivation here but the SEC ruling focuses on his apparent obsession, even in his interview with them on hurting the short sellers. I do not think this was a rational, well thought out act but more an act of desperation. He apparently sent the tweets while driving himself to…

Apple was a massively profitable company with no debt, incredible financials and a deep pool of executive talent who could step in on day one and take over.

Not surprising and pretty much in line with a prior post I made on the matter (I work in the investment industry). What was striking was how open and shut this case seems. A lot of the SEC’s charges are based on evidence provided by Elon Musk himself in his interview with them. The SEC is unlikely to settle for…

Congratulations on managing pretty much the only pictures of this car that actually make it look okayish. It looks awful in the official MB press shots, particularly with the vomit inducing rear wing. If they had any sense they’d give you one of these for free for the rights to your snaps. The new Panamera Turbo is…

I usually binge a season of TV on those flights unless there’s a good movie I haven’t seen yet. My last 17 hour flight saw me watch almost the entire 5th season of GoT (was catching up), play 3 hours of Civ 6 and drink at the bar for another 2 hours. I didn’t even have time to try and sleep.

Its better than its sounds. I do a lot of international travel and I honestly feel no difference between the ~17 hour DXB-IAH flight on Emirates and the ~10 hour FRA-IAH flight on Lufthansa. Both feel like long ass flights and I fly both at least once a year. Its better now because both airlines fly the awesome A380…

Next year’s Vikings WYTS is practically writing itself right now.

Isn’t this already the law anyway? When I went through my green card process 10 years ago there were definitely Yes/No questions you had to answer on whether I used government assistance. Ditto for my naturalization a few years back. The public charge question has always been asked. This is not different from any…

They’re newer than most of the German competition. I get the rationale though. The underlying platforms are shortly going to go away for ever and be replaced by something sized between the two. It makes no sense to keep the Vs going. They’ve also started to get eclipsed in terms of performance - the new M5 and E63…

As a former M4 owner I’m very happy to hear that BMW have fixed how their inline sixes sound. The old S54 was one of the best sounding engines ever but as massively powerful, reliable (not joking the S55 is bulletproof), smooth and tractable their N/S55 engines have been, they all sound a bit boring. Between the N58…