I think the Miata refutes the point. It is part of the Mazda family, of affordable, responsive, fun to drive, and potent cars. $17k for the 3, $20k for the 6, and $23k for the Miata, all cheaper than the example Golf in the article after adjusting for inflation.

That’s dumb. Really.

Oh, that’s good. I actually think I like this car, so that means I will find some good prices when I start looking in a decade.

What are you talking about? You said no breeding. After 15 years every single dog would be dead, or if they live that long, unable to breed. Therefore after 15 years the entire domestic dog breed will only exist in feral populations.

And all domestic dogs would be feral.

They’re screwed if they aren’t all plugin hybrid electric by 2025.

Um, 15 years later and you’d have only feral and wild cats and dogs if no one were allowed to breed them because all living domesticated cats and dogs would be dead. You would essentially exterminate the entire population of domesticated dogs within 20 years.

Wait, this thing has four doors?

No kidney grille, since that’s a BMW trademark, but the concept i8 had a similar hood cutout, fender bulges, side door scoop, similar rear fender wing design, though this one is central instead. The i8’s wing design mirrored the rear tailights. BMW has it’s standard 2 headlight, while this uses a 4 headlight look.

It looks like a baby i8.

I think Mazda and Cadillac are the only brands that have, somehow miraculously, avoided that. Their designs may be a little bit cliche (one being the swoopy muscled Japanese car, the other being the edgy muscled American car), but they seem otherwise like archetypes.

Me too! My parents were very helpful and let me live with them for four years until I moved because I got a different job.

I got lucky. I started at 22; my dad was a loan officer at a bank and I was allowed to live at home so I was able to save something like 20% of my earnings in 401k and a Roth. The savings rate fluctuated as I needed cash for buying a house or starting a family but I've always maintained some 401k ever since.

Or you have kids and want them to have access to some of the best schools in the country. Score in the top 9% and you are guaranteed admittance into the UC system.

Okay, but my point has merit. A lot of talent is in fact ‘grown locally’ thanks to plenty of top notch schools. They could move to, say, Tennessee, but then they would have to import the vast majority of the talent from here anyway.

My mistake, but you get my gist.

What culture exists to create the necessary talent pool in South DaCODA? We have UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, Stanford, Santa Clara U, San Jose SU, San Francisco SU, Calpoly, and UC Hayward within a 100m radius, plus another dozen if you go south to LA.

It's worse when you consider the parent has to be the law, at home, angry and stern and frustrated and short, but civil in public! This is normal everywhere.

That's how gas chambers get run too.

Maybe you should get a Wii U to play games.