Sorry dude, we played this case study out. It was called the industrial revolution. Unfettered capitalism and the “free market” never worked.

This is brilliant. Thanks.

Sounds like the problem isn’t humane treatment afterwards, rather the racing industry whose sole purpose is to output used up, broken animals. If they’re making money, the system should provide for an honorable retirement.

I think you didn’t read the first part of my comment. When it’s investment that propels technological development, efficiency, or infrastructure, government support isn’t only good, it’s necessary. We wouldn’t have a lot of our great corporations without it. It’s pretty rich to say “there are no exceptions”…

You beat me to it. In 2008-2009 the economy went to hell. Interest rates hit rock bottom, and the government stepped up lending in order to drive consumption and ultimately the economy. This works great for investment that makes things more efficient, or takes things to the next level. Like infrastructure -…

Lol. Wait. You just described a niche case - which is the definition of a narrow world view.

I think this can be said for their overall strategy. Their decision to focus on trucks vs. sedans isn’t a good one.

Be careful with that kind of talk around here - rumor has it among some commenters that the healthcare solution is actually “complicated” and “very hard”. 

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What strikes me as odd, is that despite it being REALLY hard, we persist on using the single most expensive healthcare system in the developed world to the point where it’s become a massive economic drain - meanwhile complaining about the cost of a national solution because it would be too expensive, while ignoring…

I’m not clear on the point you’re making. I think the healthcare thing is a no brainer. Healthcare in this country doesn’t exist in a real market economy, and we’re already spending more than the rest of the developed world, so the inefficiencies are already there.

I’d have been fine that Arya killed the Night King if Jon and Dany had shown an iota of cleverness in manipulating the final confrontation. I hate the deus ex machina sort of bailouts these people get at EVERY large confrontation. It would have been fine if they were overwhelmed and basically were saved at the last…

Again, I’m a Toyota FAN. I’ll drive my 4Runner until the sun burns out, I test drove the GT86 just for kicks, and then proceeded to borrow my friend’s and flog it to within an inch of its life (with his permission), and its. just. noooottt. quite. there....

Sweet. Is it so they can drive their underwhelming cars on it without being passed all day by German hatchbacks?

Next gen GTI is still on the same platform - so it’s more like a facelift. And if the spyshots are accurate it isn’t a good facelift. I’ll keep my MKVII thanks. 

You can get pretty close to 4% now for a used car loan at credit unions. And anyone with a 700 credit score can get a loan for a used car. 4% isn’t bad for today’s market.

Yeah I don’t think this is close to correct. I would say, don’t modify a daily driver that you have a loan on, or is under warranty. My 20 year old 4Runner is paid off and modded within an inch of its life, and will continue to get modded and I’ll continue driving it daily until the sun burns out.

And yet - GM rental sales are 10% of their total sales. If Ford has a bigger market share and rentals are a third of fleet sales? Still a substantial number.

Again - Ford doesn’t disclose the number of Fusion sales that are Fleet sales, but they hold the highest market share of any OEM in the US for fleet sales and we can guess that the number is substantial.  Second - it’s relevant that the Fusion, with fleet sales, isn’t outselling even the competitors’ 2nd and 3rd best…

Fusion are sold by the bucketloads to fleets. It’s worth noting that it’s behind pretty much all of Toyota, Honda and Nissan’s mid size and small sedan offerings. 4th, maybe in mid sized sedans, but again, fleet sales.