Me too. Hell, I feel like a sucker with any type of payment plan, I’d rather drive a paid for beater and put away a few hundred a month than have a car note. But that’s not the point, this seems like a strategy for BMW, who doesn’t want a lot of people like us as customers anyway, but time and the markets will tell

No, of course not. This is just a way to both play to people who like the feel of nickel and dime fees (they very much exist!) and lower the cost of the carplay upgrade for leasers (~80% of new BMWs I think who will pay 160/240 for the upgrade or could spend 300 upfront for no reason), as there’s no way that company…

The weird thing is that most high end hotels do that because a certain large enough set of their customers like it! At least that’s the story I’ve been told. Like it’s kind of a conspicuous consumption thing and somewhere with included amenities might feel ‘cheap’ or something. Having to pay makes it exclusive!

Funny how you know my needs and consumer choices better than me. I was in the market for an electric car within the last year and for various reasons ended up with a non-Tesla (ended up having to compromise with a plug in hybrid, the cost of updating the electric to my detached garage plus the threat of 500 mile work…

Honestly, my opinion of him hasn’t changed at all this year, he was totally toast last year and if I were running Ferrari and needed to replace one of my drivers to bring up someone as promising as Leclerc I would have dropped Vettel in a heartbeat. If Kimi really was as happy about the move to Alfa Romeo as he says,…

Seems a little too crazy for me to buy in at all right now, but I love this theory so much on so many levels!!

Exactly, and personally in 2017/18 I would have bought the bolt with no second guessing over the 3, if only because I could be pretty sure the price and options wouldn’t change between ordering and delivery

Can’t agree more brown interiors look amazing, I’ve got the Kona brown in my ELR and it’s without a doubt my favorite interior I’ve ever had! Deep rich colors like this are so much better than any tan or black or anything can ever be. And this shows that the brown/black combo can work. It’s a dark look, but has such a…

Kona brown/jet black Cadillac offered at least on the ELR works, I love this interior. But with the amount of black in the above C8 interior there might not be enough contrast areas to pull off this type of scheme. Easy fix, make the seat s full brown or something, but black/brown works!

Me too! And I drove an Rx300 while at USC. Then passed it to my brother for three more years in LA. Today my parents still have and drive daily in Lake Tahoe. My neighbor in Ohio drives one. Mom almost bought another one last month too in Sacramento. Point is, they exist pretty commonly! Maybe not in NYC, but did they…

I’m the rare person in the opposite boat, the one time I had an impossible burger, it was dry and overcooked and really among the worst burgers I’ve ever had. I grill beyond burgers at home rather frequently and find they are more beefy than I ever thought I’d ever want to experience again. I’d try impossible again, bu…

But that’s like the whole point, both Beyond and Impossible want to be indistinguishable from the real thing. If someone ordered the Beyond burger without knowing it was vegan, they’d leave thinking they had a burger and would have done so with far icky environmental, ethical, and moral costs.

The ‘90' part is the customer code for Alaskan airlines. They are 737-800s delivered to customer 90. The way Boeing did this makes 737-890 the official destination of an Alaskan air purchased 737-800, hence why it shows up on places like flight radar.

surprised that no one is mentioning how much this sounds like self sealing fuel tank tech that has existed for most of a century. If executed well, it sounds to me like a much better solution than the traditional run flat

“The Selfseal Technology is designed to permanently fill the path of the puncture when the object is removed.” You will lose air when a nail is in the tire indicating a puncture. You then remove the object, let the tire seal, and refill the air. At that point the repair may be “permanent?”

It’s also possible that lifting would have created a harder to control situation or spin that caused a collision as well. Or lead to Vettel reaching that same pinch point enough later that they do contact. It’s hard and useless to analyze hypothetical moves, but I struggle to find fault in a racing driver keeping on…

That’s all fair. Guess it’s just a difference of opinion. Hollow victory just isn’t a term I’d use in either situation you describe. You beat a guy with a time of ‘DNS’ because you showed up. That’s a big part of winning! KD got hurt and the warriors have a depth issue past their ultimate superstar lineup? Thats part…

Absolutely agree. He is spectacular as a competitor, but he can’t own that and has to pretend to be nice to his competition, as if beating them wasn’t enough.

Exactly. Hamilton is hard to root for because he doesn’t own his competitiveness. It’s just so frustrating. Honestly I’m sure it really helps him keep the edge, telling someone you just beat you wish they did better has to be demoralizing! It’s probably part of why he’s so good, but let’s stop pretending he’s so…

But the tantrum is human and endearing while pretending you don’t want to be this dominant and want your competitors to beat you is absurd and grating. It’s performative niceness that flies in the face of his on track actions and words. Vettel was upset, as anyone would be, and acted upset. It’s internally consistent…