I’m still waiting to see what they do with the Z06 / ZR1 / Zora. Good to hear though.

Eh, yuppie, late-30s, no kids, and have acura or BMW money. I’m intrigued, but I’m also pretty smitten with my BMWs. It’s all going to depend on how this drives.

I’m saying that wearing a mask out of common courtesy and to try and limit the spread isn’t asking much, and if that is the current recommendation, we should follow it because it’s a bloody mask, not a ball and chain. Taking reasonable precautions to allow us to open up is sane.  Trying to pretend that this isn’t…

1% of the worlds population is 70 Million. Are you actually arguing that we should just let that happen? Because that’s what’s natural?

I’ll do it if the game is worth a second playthrough, and 100% doesn’t require you do something totally unnatural (see: Subnautica, which just means pay a bit more attention and try a few things, not most RPGs, which require you do, well, something insane like farm 1M potatoes).

Everyone has to go into public at some point; no individual grocery stores or essential supplies, never mind that essential workers aren’t given much of a choice. That’s an extremely narrow view of the actual issue and ignores many substantive problems.

I do both all the time, but I also have reserves for things like that, if it were to happen.  I see your point.  

Accounting makes it hard to sit on cash; it’s stockholder equity, but not doing anything ~for~ you - either pay it out as a dividend, or put it into something (inventory, equipment, investments, etc) that will return more in the long run. The places that can get away with not doing this (eg: Apple) are few and far…

Eh, I’d say it’s a factor for ~some~, but not that many. I know I’ve said this before- I’m in the market (debating between a few different options right now in terms of paths forward), and while the Supra is definitely on my list, it’s ~lower~ on the list due to the auto. I like the ZF8, but I prefer a stick. It’s…

Post-covid will be ...  interesting.  I still don’t see them sitting on huge cash reserves, but we’ll see.  

Massive outlay in capital that is hard to sustain, and the depreciation cycle is brutal on the 10K if you did that.  Won’t reflect the actual performance of the company, since it’s highly cash-flow dependent.  Bunch of other reasons too.  

Sort... of.  They’re asset backed securities; the lease payment is to the holding company that owns them - and then back to the creditors and investors that funded the purchases.  The holding company is Hertz Something LLC.  

Dig into the actual financial health of significant portions of the S&P 500 - lots of those are zombie companies propped up via debt, creative financing, and innovative book keeping.  This is going to expose a LOT of that.  If we don’t want them to die, you’re right - you must keep adding cash to the pile to keep it…

While it sucks paying out of warranty while you still owe, it’s rarely that different than paying out of warranty while you own the car.  The outlay required to fix it is the same either way; it just “feels” worse since you’re paying for an item that is currently non functional.  Car isn’t worth anything broken…

Eh.  I’ve done plenty of ultra-long loans.  Cash flow and low APR are significant at certain income levels; make more in the market if all things are relatively normal, and it keeps things flexible.  I also have the ability to pay it off immediately if needed though too.  

Heart disease kills YOU. Transmitting COVID-19 kills other people; and possibly you as well. Significant difference between the two.

Abusing != treating it like shit; poor choice of words on my part. It’s going to get used, and used well. The point I was attempting to make is that either vehicle will handle my requirements; the Nissan has a significantly lower cost of entry which leaves me with funds to do other things.  I’m not overly worried…

Now I just have to decide if I want to keep the ZL1 or ditch it too.  Dammit.  

Xterra does hold more value than the Frontier.

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