My take? The world will be a better place when car dealerships are an option.

Bentley needs to be more like Koenigsegg and build a car that’s so slow it only needs a one-speed transmission. Very irresponsible.

Why an eight speed?

The schedule is so idiotic. But I think what it’s actually about (which isn’t widely discussed) is avoiding saturation in any single market to maximize income. Say, for example, that all the races in North America are held back to back - Montreal, Miami, Vegas, Texas, Mexico, Brazil - in a 10 week period of time. The…

Sure would be nice if the lower level positions banded together to unionize (or whatever similar option is available at their main location) for higher pay, better conditions and such.

The solution is right there in the article:

Can’t we just outlaw Challengers instead? (And Mustangs just to be sure).

I think a big problem is that while in Europe, mostly, anti speeding measures are aimed at deterring speeding and managing infrastructure to deter and prevent, our anti speeding measures are based on making money for local sheriffs’ departments. They neither deter nor prevent, but seek to hoodwink and extort instead.

“The NTSB determined the Challenger driver’s use of cocaine and PCP impaired his decision-making...”

“he also had a history of speeding offenses”

Hard cases make for bad laws.

Actually, it’s up about $5 today to a just over $242.

Yep. The information is a bit dated, but back in 2018 the average household income of a Quattroporte buyer was $790k. The only person I know who has owned one lives in a 20,000 sq ft mansion and also has a Ferrari, 911 Turbo, Lamborghini Urus and a Mercedes GLS. Depreciation is probably in the bottom 1% of things he…

Yeah, Jake, Flo, the General and that Gecko can fuck off. If they spend less money advertising they could lower premiums or pay out when they should. Also, any of you who commit even the smallest bit of insurance fraud (because you have paid so much in premiums that you think you deserve it) can doubly fuck off.

All of the buyers of these cars sleep very well at night, because they have enough money that they don’t give the first shit about the depreciation of their car (and in the case of most on this list, that would be cars, plural). It’s rounding error on rounding error for them. Don’t be a poor.

100% this. It’s a scam. And the people being scammed find out the hard way how easily they got scammed. And some of them continue to believe the scam even after the scam is exposed. That’s called good scamming. Scamalamadingdong.

Never forget that the whole SovCit ecosystem is at it’s heart a grift.

I can only assume there is an echo chamber online somewhere with [made up] stories about how someone put the law in their place or some such nonsense. Or they simply believe that it doesn’t matter and that its their duty to be “right” and suffer.  I agree 120% with the gist of your argument.  If it works, it works, if…

EuroNCAP standards for anything that Americans would actually buy (compact car sized and up) are probably just as stringent as what they’d have to pass in the US (both the mandatory stuff, and to look good in their IIHS ratings). What’s keeping them from bringing those cars over here now is cost and lack of demand. EV…

Your window of opportunity for that may be measured in minutes, rather than days or weeks I’m afraid. (RIP Jezebel)