I’m not convinced this is a tax write-off, as such, though I’m willing to be corrected. I thought the tax write-off explanation only applied to something like the Batgirl movie, which really was buried.

ABSOLUTELY THIS

The SS is a great example. The Platonic ideal of a sleeper. I’ve seen them called Malibus more than once.

Absofuckinglutely. The right’s constant need to drain off the meager funds we give to education makes me angry with rage.

Ah yes, what a sterling fellow. Didn’t he get his start in like stolen calling card numbers or some bullshit like that?

I would watch the hell out of that.

ACAB

Missed one!

So you think “best picture” should be “most popular picture?”

Yes, that’s exactly what he’s doing.  Then they’ll sell the entire thing for parts.  It’s 80's corporate raiding with a new skin.

John Malone is a pustule on the entire business, and has been for decades.  (My father, who was a financial analyst that covered the cable industry, called him “the worst, most useless gasbag I’ve ever met.”)

It’s J.D. Power. Everything they turn out is bullshit. That’s why this survey shows *checks notes* Maserati ahead of Honda.

Nah... this initial quality survey is bullshit and I think it has been bullshit for years forever.

Of course they never lie!  What good would marketing people that lie be?

I had the same reaction: some of these, at least, have to be small sample size issues.  I mean, there’s like, what, 5 people in Wyoming?

Yep. I bought a car in 2021 because I absolutely needed one, and I went used as a result. So far it has, I think, held its value; KBB (for whatever that’s worth) has the current value right around the balance of the loan.

Tatra is a Czech manufacturer that’s one of the oldest in the world.

Exactly so.  They have literally the dullest lineup of any of the luxury(ish) automakers, and they don’t even compensate for that with well-made, reliable vehicles.

So, in summation, if you want all the ease of buying a 1995 Corsica with all the panache of owning a car that makes it look like you have more money than brains, Infiniti dealers are the way to go, apparently.