I’m honestly having trouble coming up with a worse one and I literally write for a living

Might be the single worst combination of words I’ve ever seen. 

1st: Other OEMs learned this lesson the hard way. Selling large blocks of vehicles to the rental car companies, or owning a rental car company outright, is a neat way to move excess inventory; but it kills the residual value for your retail customers. This makes retail leasing more expensive, but it also impacts what…

It’s pretty fun to watch these silicon valley “geniuses” that think they don’t need any help from seasoned experts in their fields and that they have somehow discovered some magic new way of doing things learn the hard way that they are not as smart as they think.

Of course. Rebates to clear inventory are as old as the auto industry.

Even traditional automakers have responded to market conditions with pricing changes, but they have been more masked by making “instant rebates” and discount financing options while the base prices of their cars remains constant. Its a minor difference really, but a pretty big one to the finance-ignorant masses.

1st: Elon is learning a real lesson in “free” market economics.

[...]warned that the measures may be too little, too late.

He probably means the historic Australian definition: one that drives livestock overland. The way it’s used here, and they way I’ve generally heard it used by Americans, is the accepted modern definition

What fun would that be?

You will lose a lot of brain cells. In a good way.

Top Secret!

I remember getting all kinds of flak for pointing out what a nightmare owning these things would be when the Hertz story first came out. Glad to see I was right. 

It’s a scene from 1984's Top Secret.

Have you seen how the crowd here treats pickup trucks?

Early Infinitis were pretty great before they became the Altimas with Leather they are today. 

And a third:

I see two entries for heated Steering wheels and one with Seats as well - but nothing about Air Conditioned Seats?

Coming from a time when AC, Cruise and power windows were considered as options on many cars, I’m thankful that has now changed.

The cheapest AWD Sienna within 300 miles of Houston is nearly $50k. All others are over $50k. There are multiple AWD Tellurides for under $40k. Minivans are great, but are they $10k+ better?