Sure. I edited my earlier comment to allow for multiple salaries in a household. So the hourly number is closer to 22 or 23. But yes, it will create inflationary pressures for low-cost services. But things like... milk and etc can be solved with modern logistics.

I’d love to talk about this with a real economist. For me, there’s a glaring issue, which is that cost of living varies greatly depending on where you live. How do you adjust for that without creating huge inflationary pressures like what you have in San Francisco? I believe people should be able to live where they…

I feel like it could be a pretty easy equation. What’s the cost of an apartment in the zip code where we have our office? Assuming the average household size of 2.5, you need at least 2 bedrooms. If you want to adjust for extreme outliers like you would have in NYC... fine. Pick the median cost of a 2 bedroom…

Tentatively, I should be able to do the same in my Carrera, except the rear only has lap-belts, so I would need to install some kind of harness. But yeah, I also like that about the Evora.

Agreed, long term it probably wouldn’t be worth it. And I’d only do it if I could for sure DIY the car, because I DIY all my cars even though it’s a pain in the ass. But still. Sometimes I REALLY want one.

I have an air cooled Carrera I work very hard to own. I can’t afford two fun cars in my stable. But an Evora is one of the only cars I’d maybe consider trading the Carrera for. 

The majority of the country is right of center....based on what. What data? What constitutes center? Is there a checklist, or a Facebook quiz to tell me where I am?

lol. So obscure generalities passes for rhetoric? Got it. 

Ignoring the circular reference there. It’s pretty easy - quotes.

Still not clear on which rhetoric you’re referring to here, or why it’s “tone” is off. 

Lol. You quoted the sentence and didn’t understand it.

I don’t think you read what I wrote. Go back and read it again. 

Agreed. I read SEC filings for fun. But essentially what them and a ton of other companies that use lending to sell products have done for ten years is raised prices to keep profit margins up while interest was low and not really improving their products or fixing underlying issues. After a decade all they have is a…

“Hey - we aren’t competing well against the Prius, Civic, Accord and Camry, so let’s just give up.” Aaaaagain - one thing would be reducing and improving current offerings, to allow for a market that has some preferences, and another entirely to throw in the towel.

That’s fine. I think the Fusion is a terrible car that doesn’t stack up well to other cars in the segment. I have family members that own them, despite my basically screaming not to buy them, and 100% of them had drivetrain issues in the first 4 years.

Wrong analysis. One thing is to say people are buying more CUVs, and the other is to say. “Let’s stop making the Camry”. The people that bought those Camrys are less likely to stay with Toyota, regardless of whether or not their next purchase is a CUV.

Look - I’m not saying that CUVs aren’t a good bet. They absolutely are. I’m saying the following:

You’re not the only analyst in the world homie. I’m not speaking from my ass when I tell you that unless you’re controlling for CUV availability - your numbers are skewed as fuck. And once again - as I’ve said over and over - one thing is to reduce sedan and hatchback footprint. Another is to abandon it entirely. As…

I said SUV / Truck

Profitability is a really tenuous case to make. There are SO MANY things tied into what makes a car “profitable” and a ton of those things have very little to do with what the different components of a car are. The easy counter argument is that clearly there are OEMs that are selling sedans and hatchbacks profitably,…