I had about 40% down and a good credit rating. A few banks will give you what they think market value for any car is.

I have a 3rd gen 4Runner. Parts are cheap. I do every bit of work on all four of my cars and none of them are under 20 years old - 86 911 and a 91 CRX - plus my wife’s 2015 GTI.

My favorite body style for any truck ever. A new transmission for the truck to get the manual is a small price to pay for one of the handsomest and most reliable trucks ever.

Trannys for these things are cheeeeeeaaaap. This model truck in this condition is rare enough that even with that it’s still NP

Well. Then you’d have Northern Ireland. I mean. Ultimately Israel is extending the antagonism by offering an existence that people would be hard pressed to accept. Just because you think it should be so doesn’t make it likely or feasible. No one in the argument is “right” but both the US and Israel have the power and…

Eh, given the current VC environment, and Tesla’s “tech” status, I’d say their ability to generate cash is pretty much the norm nowadays. Uber is another high-profile one, but there are TONS of multi-million dollar companies that get a ton of cash for little more than their ideas. Of the two biggies, and Twitter, I…

The Japanese and Germans aren’t subject to some pretty significant human rights violations homey. That comparison just doesn’t scan.

The irony of the content of the link you posted is apparently beyond you.

I mean, are you just suggesting that the Palestinians accept their second-class citizen status or that they just mass migrate out of Israel entirely? It isn’t as though Israel has been an experiment in openness and inclusion. On the one hand, there will always be a Palestinian faction that wants to fight back, on the…

Well, Tesla is in a lot of trouble. They HAVE to deliver on the 3, clearly. But what he has that the OEMs are missing, is positioning, and vision for what people want in a car. Mass market OEMs are struggling to know how to build something that connects with people in the market segment they’re pursuing. Hyundai has…

And about as compelling as lukewarm toast. Which no one seems to acknowledge is probably the most important thing for people buying cars over a certain price point.

For the record - there are plenty of people who think Mother Theresa was a terrible person.

Minor nit to pick - I know these are cars and not trucks, but the stance feels wrong. These things always end up looking like they are sagging in the back, just a TAD bit of front to back rake would make it look better.

Eh. I’ve dealt with Geico twice. Once when a kid hit my 1986 Carrera - a good body shop gets what they need. A minor fender bender turned into 5k in damage and they did a stellar job. The original geico adjuster tried to say it was 1100 in damage. The truth was somewhere in between. The second time was when my wife…

Lol. I tried to join the marines days before 9/11. They wouldn’t take me because I had screws in my knee after a hockey accident. A year later I was making 50k a year hawking cell phones and they called me up but 25k a year didn’t feel so appealing. As for marrying into it. Too late really. My wife is a dance teacher.

I mean. It’s all relative. At 300 per month that I’ve been paying for 5 years they’re way above break even for me. “Leaving your carrier out of it” seems like a terrible philosophy. Look. In the end I just need to suck it up. But in the meantime they’re ensuring that as soon as I get a chance I’ll jump ship.

I have a 2015 GTI and a 1998 4Runner. Aside from that incident where my wife got run off the road our driving record is tops. I’m at 3600 per year.

Lol. I’m sure my 1998 4Runner and 2015 GTI are in the lower range of value.

I have Geico - which is by far the cheapest I’ve found. But every year I weep tears of rage when I see them incrementally raise my insurance little by little for no real reason (until this year, when my wife was run off the road and somehow we are the ones to pay the price), only to realize there ISN’T ANYONE CHEAPER.…

You’ve moved the goal-posts a bit. Even your article, other than the disclaimer that they are short on Tesla stock, allows for relatively high SG&A because of comparatively lower revenue, which is the crux of their argument on why Tesla is a bad bet. Their graph even shows the inverse correlation pretty starkly.

Chriiiist. You need to focus on more than one thing at a time.