Don’t tell the investors, they don’t like to hear how supply and demand works, they think it only applies to their demands. “Wealth sometimes has to flow the opposite way? That can’t be right, we were promised unlimited growth forever!”

Let’s be honest here: If there’s truly a lack of willing employees, then employers are going to have to pay more. Supply and demand works both ways, right?

Sometimes the world just seems right.

There was a good “The Drive” article that interviewed someone at VW, don’t remember who it was.

I can wait for 2023. I’ll probably have to if I want to test drive a Hybrid Maverick or a Base Bronco, anyway.

NP - All Aboard !!!

I assume the German Car Parking Mode comes standard?

You’re not using kayak correctly.

I mean, that’s cool. But is that trick really worth $3,500? And is dealing with the realities of this really worth it for the five times a year people will actually use it? RTTs just seem to be the next status symbol, and the people who I see with them are the same people I see with their lifted Wrangler parked on the…

That’s a good point, though I haven’t seemed to been able to find occupancy in places like this.

Ok, I’ll write a little about it...(My experience at Quicken Loans, which is now Rocket Mortgage) I know I could have gone to a smaller shop and it would have been slightly different, but not by much:

Yeah, it’s like the APR on my credit cards. I have no idea what it is or if it’s good or bad because I never carry a balance. I care only about the cash back and other rewards.

Some high credit scorers get high-priced loans.

...to earn the dealership an extra few bucks in kickbacks.

Can I offer an alternative for a saavy buyer who beat the dealer system? Perhaps some prime-credit borrowers took the ridiculous interest rate with the intent to refinance/pay off immediately and reap the benefit of a lower principal amount because the dealer required their financing for it.

There’s a YouTube video made by a Toyota product testing engineer. I was kind of shocked by some of the things that he described doing. For example he said they used to test the automatic transmissions by driving forward, and at some speed I’m not sure - they would slam the transmission into reverse and see what would…

Did you learn nothing from Montgomery Scott’s starship repair maxim?
Multiply any realistic repair estimate by a factor of 4 before giving it to anyone.
Deliver actual repairs in half that time and look like a hero.

And then this stole everyone’s lunch money

JLR’s problem with their EVs is much like that of other automakers: they focused on making their EVs too distinctive to make sure that everyone knows it’s an EV. The wacky i-Pace was too big and wide for markets like the UK, and too much of a hatchback for places like the US and China. It is awkward looking and…

On the plus side, him opening his mouth made me discover a dope local chicken place!