Don’t these pale in comparison to subsidies that agriculture, finance, energy, construction, etc. get? How about all that money we dumped into corn-based ethanol? Hell, corn in general. Probably not a coincidence that Iowa is both a corn and early Presidential primary state. This story should have put the Musk…

“We are a transparent business.”

The head engineer at BMW probably bills his hours at around 200 EUR, if not more. German engineering is a lot of things, but cheap is not one of them.

Same thing happened to me when I was looking for an S4 with a manual. None on the lot, but I joked with the guy that I'd take his RS4 for the S4 price. Then he basically forced me into the car and took me on an awesome test drive. I dreamed of that car for years until I could afford one. Went back to that same…

Wanted to test drive a used Vette with 30k miles on it, salesman led me on a “test drive” that was all of a half mile. Then took me to meet his manager, who proceeded to tell me that I “couldn’t handle a real sports car” because I had the audacity to say his seats were shit and the shifter felt like it belonged on a…

Driving in Rome is like GTA-rules. Lanes sort of exist, but only if it’s convenient. Traffic lights are more or less observed. Aggression is rewarded.