GM: “Let’s combine a vehicle that only d-bags want with technology that d-bags openly mock and denigrate! I’m sure we’ll sell thousands hundreds tens of them!  Also, why is the head of Marketing packing up her desk?”

Shareholders can’t do anything unless they’re on the board, and the board is made up of Musk’s hand-picked toadies. Musk will be at Tesla until he runs it into the ground.

He only owns like what, 20% of Tesla?  Why aren’t shareholders screaming for his removal already?

In Elon’s defense, being such a spectacular asshole is a full time job.

Elon:

They should be GLAD he’s splitting his time between other companies. Imagine what a shitshow Tesla would be if he focused 100% of his ineptitude there; they’d be selling 2-dimensional, 3 wheeled utes with no manual controls and made from transparent aluminum.

I dunno I think I’d rather have him half the time than the whole time. If he was 100% focused on Tesla just imagine the company-ending nightmares he’d come up with.

Well, it took 3-4 years for TSLA to go from a well over 1 trillion dollar valuation, to about 540 billion where it’s at now, so...

People to suddenly stop being idiots.

So what’s it going to take for TSLA to lose $500B market cap and get to a realistic valuation?

Muscle oriented as long as you ignore 20 years of gutless rental cars.

When are they going to learn the beauty of top gear was the hosts, Clarkson is kind of an ass but the three can’t be replaced.

That went great for Top Gear I heard

None anymore. They are all the same now, with bright spot here and there scattered among lame duck of lineup, that’s how it is. There were times I wanted to drive everything Alfa Romeo and Lancia made, but those days are over.

At some point you’ll have to pick a favorite that still makes cars.

Good call. Most of Toyota’s reliability comes at the expense of being unrefined and a bit rough around the edges. Lexus smooths that over if you’re willing to pay for it. 

Toyota. And this is a question about automakers, not who makes the best (enthusiast) cars. As an 80's kid I watched my dad suffer through unreliable GM station wagons for his summer painting (he was a school teacher), then a Gremlin that barely ever started, then his dream, finally, a Mercedes! Except it was a 1972…

The prices for some of these trucks are obscene. Last year I briefly considered replacing my 25-year-old truck and keeping my 10-year-old sedan. To get an F150 or F250 fairly well equipped, but not even fully optioned, was well into the $70k territory.  I kept my old truck and bought a new car instead.  The old…

I just read an article over the weekend that said the average monthly payment for a new car in the use is $726.  So I think the correct answer is anything purchased new.

I’ve finally broken free of my abusive relationship with VW