This is giving me major “It’s a Trap” vibes somehow. It’s gorgeous, and could probably be serviceable with a bit of wrenching. But if all it was going to take was a few weekends of work, I’d expect the ask to be much higher. So what exactly is lurking in there that the seller would let it go for so cheap?

You’re not kidding. I just finished reading the Ferrari biography. In addition to Enzo being a magnificently weird, kind of terrible person, the number of things I knew the names of, but didn’t realize their namesake was an actual dude (engines, companies, corners, etc) was shocking.

Not gonna lie, you sent me down a historical rabbit hole with this post. It consumed most of my day.

Totally stand corrected! The only flight I take regularly is to Puerto Rico, and Frontier is the only direct flight. It has hardened my heart on budget airlines, so to speak.

That you went to GDP per capita, when the US has, by a wide margin, the largest GDP in the world is a pretty damning indictment of our economic policies in these United States.

I definitely thought this post was going to be in the thread about how “Ford is losing $47000 per EV it sells” and was all fired up to make exactly this joke haha

It’s all a cherry-picking exercise to generate numbers that people will take note of, rather than to provide meaningful data. It’s a huge problem in the scientific community too.

There is a connection, albeit a tenuous one. Cancerous mutations are a lot more common than we generally realize, believe it or not. The immune system is tasked with eliminating transformed cells. Prolonged stress is known to stimulate cortisol production from the adrenals. Cortisol is an anti-inflammatory hormone,…

I think we all just get nostalgic for the experience we had when we first got into cars in general, and Jalopnik in particular. Back then, it was new and exciting to us. We had lots to learn. Now we’re older and (hopefully) wiser and there’s not so much to learn on a daily basis, so it’s not quite so exciting any…

Holy shit, you’re right!  I mostly only fly back and forth to Puerto Rico, and the only direct flight is Frontier.  It’s made me... cynical about airlines haha

Dunno. Is this speculation?

I mean, if pointing to well-developed, prosperous nations that have been doing it for decades doesn’t constitute proof that it can work in the wealthiest nation on the planet doesn’t count in your book, then I humbly submit that you are either arguing in bad faith or you are impervious to reason.

If one has a life-supporting medical procedure scheduled, one does not go on vacation on the other side of the country right before it.

This is what I was thinking.

That sounds like an exhausting way to live one’s life. But hey, you do you, I guess.

I’ve heard the same “Jalopnik sucks now" thing more times than I can count over the years. If it wasn’t still good, we wouldn’t still be here.

How it works is the cab company has a government account they charge it to. They are then subject to government oversight to prevent fraud. It happens in lots of industries (think Medicare), and yes, there are bad actors, and yes, abuses do happen. And yes, we can do better at preventing it.

I mean, we already track 60 million retirees via Social Security. The fact that you quoted a statistic is proof that we can do it and are actively doing it. It’s also proof that we’ve already got the infrastructure for it.

Stop doing this “Company loses $X on every unit it sells” nonsense. It’s misleading and sensationalized. Ford, and most companies (Even Nissan, allegedly!) spend money developing new products. They spend that money in anticipation of future sales. Dividing total development cost (already paid up front) by the first…

The principle of Economies of Scale suggest that you are wrong. This would work just fine here. In all likelihood, it would work better because the US has a much larger tax base to work with. The US’s population of ~350 million people has far more leverage than Sweden’s ~11 million that it could use to negotiate with. …