Or even 2 years ago, when prices were going up and inflation was becoming a serious problem, when you could still go a week or 2 without hearing from the president. I know some will say it’s because he was really old and infirm, but I choose to believe it was because he was a normal fucking human being who didn’t need…

I wonder how much cocaine the monkey in charge of pricing at Tesla uses each hour.

Could have been something like a diplomat car where the Japanese diplomat (probably lower-level embassy or consulate staff) had their car shipped over by the Japanese government and then decided to just sell it in the U.S. rather than ship it home where it probably couldn’t pass shaken after a few years of U.S.-duty.

The strangest imports I’ve found that I didn’t expect was the middle of nowhere Alabama. My wife got this weird idea we needed homemade wooden planter boxes and we got lost trying to find the old retired guy that was making them. So we stopped at the gas station to call him and get directions. Yes, not A gas station,…

Wake me up when I can get one at $750 per month and $0 down ...

Real kick in the teeth to anyone who took a lease deal before this, although I have no sympathy for Cybertruck buyers in any capacity and they deserve to feel the consequences of their poor choices.

The necessity for the 5 orange lights on the front for trucks over a certain width was a discouragement for a while, until automakers realized that truck guys actually liked them and would pay more for it. Now they are leaning into it at full force

I love it when I find a potential parking space for my relatively diminutive Golf R, only to realize that because of the size of the vehicles on either side and/or the owners’ inability or refusal to park them within the lines, I can’t even fit my hatch in it. I count myself lucky that I have no serious mobility…

“implement huge tariffs on cars imported from Mexico, Canada and China”

It’s 50 and sunny right now.  My ride this morning was terrific.

I can get anywhere within Boston in less than 20-25 minutes, including Roslindale. By bike.

One more: The DOE Loan Program Office is the rare example of a government program that has actually turned a profit. Over its lifetime, it’s had less than a 2% failure rate (better than most banks) and a net return of more than $3B.

4th gear:

It’s the only economy that’s not on the brink of collapse right now.

“Can’t park it, fit it on the streets, charge it, get it worked on, or get the software to work, had to give it baby bumpers, and people are constantly pointing and laughing at me.
...
Still love the truck.”

By the time I got there even their breakroom was ransacked, so I didn’t even get a Hertz donut.

Wait, you’re telling me that making expensive products for eco-minded people, and then making an abrupt Red Hat turn might... alienate the people who buy your products?  

I’m mostly pleased it’s not a MAGA sign at this point. 

Jumping on the writer for making stupid generalizations, while also making a massive stupid generalization yourself, is not the flex you think it is.

Because it’s all just virtue signaling. His crowd is very much the “NUTHIN IS MADE IN AMERICA ANYMORE” type that drives a Dodge Ram clad with Chinese-made wheels and light bars and a wE tHe PeOpLe sticker on it.