1st Gear: Tesla’s Q3 Win

Seriously, $2.3 billion in revenue and $22 million in profit is not commendable. Especially when everyone knows you’ll be gearing up to build a new model in the next few months. If the Model 3 ships on time and they start showing significant profits once deliveries start, then I’ll be impressed. That’s at least a year…

GAAP Income of $29 Million, pollution credits of $139 Million.

Bob Lutz is the Rush Limbaugh of the auto industry: standing on the side lines and cheering for failure.

Rookie investors and Tesla junkies will eat it up and keep plowing money into Tesla.

1st Gear: Tesla’s Q3 Win

“One of the criticisms I’ve seen out there is that perhaps Q3 was at the expense of Q4—this is not true,” Mr. Musk told analysts on Wednesday.

Dealers selling cars at discount... Musk publicly tells them to stop... but that was secretly the plan all along...

Neutral:

I’m pretty sure Ford bought more Mazda platforms, there are even some volvos that ride on Mazda platforms like the C30/Focus/Mazda 3

Q3 was a gimmick designed to stabilize Tesla pre-merger. They need to raise more cash and are using the Q3 profit gimmick to do so. Musk himself said this in an email:

Your percentage is waaaaaay low. “The racial makeup of the village was 99.58% White, 0.14% Pacific Islander, and 0.28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.28% of the population.” Also, there were 716 via the 2000 census. Not pictured? The one-room schoolhouse that Roger taught in that…

Ummm yeah.... Not sure where you got these numbers, but Jimbo’s buyout is nowhere near 33 million. Its 5. Pretty sure they’re all wrong, but Fishers definitely is... Better check your source.

“Allmoet every division 1 athletic department is hugely profitable, except those profits are funneled to coaches and administrators instead of the school. That’s blatantly wrong.”

You know that the vast majority of athletic budgets come ticket sales and donors and not public funds right

That’s not how buyouts work. Not that the buyout clauses aren’t insane, but Meyer would not get that much money unless they fired him before February 2017. What are the odds of that happening? This has a table that shows the real values.

Harbaugh’s salary isn’t really 9 million; 4 million of that is an interest-free loan that went right to a life insurance premium that gets paid back when the policy is cashed - Michigan gets their 4 million back before anything else. It’s obviously a substantial benefit, and the interest-free aspect of it certainly…

24,586 - give or take a few hundred [thousand]

FTFY

24,586 - give or take a few hundred

This is another example to not believe the public persona players are often strapped with. We live in a world where for a decade Lance Armstrong was the good guy and Lynch was the malcontent. Just because someone despises the media does not make them a bad person. In Marshawn’s case it seems like the exact opposite.