Do motorcyclists really want to have a conversation about behaving in a consistent and predictable manner?

That’s massively overstating the unreliability of a reasonable age (<10 years) used car with reasonable mileage (<60,000 miles).

Until you get in to seriously high incomes (>$250,000/year) 30-35% of gross annual income is about what you should be spending on a car. This assumes you don’t have excessive debt service ratios (should be <35%).

29 & 31%? That shows the vast majority did exactly what Ford said they would.

Put another way: a full 77% of Cruz owners and 69% of Focus owners made the transition to SUVs and CUVs.

Ford, VW, Mercedes, Audi, Chevy, Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and Porschel will all have BEVs on the market in 2020.

You are ignoring the reality that you cannot pursue growth over profits for an entire generation.

The passenger had their regular recliner lever on the side of the seat.

15 years.... and still burning cash at a rate of a billion a year.

Nothing like Amazon.

But they are losing money? Their average annual loss over the last 4 years has been >$1B per year.

It’s been 15 years since Musk took over. They are not in the “begging” phase of anything. They’ve just failed miserably at doing what companies are supposed to: turn a profit.

I’ve done my homework, and it confirms you have no idea what you’re talking about.

They will still post a loss for the full year, as they have done every year since incorporation. Pulling accounting tricks to show a single, profitable quarter is not making money.

How, exactly, did Apple “choke” the music industry? Which titans have fallen? Who’s gone bankrupt?

You really want to invoke Napster here?

Unless it’s a large dollar repair (replacing a transmission) the manufacturer will not preemptively send an adjuster to evaluate before hand.

But, uh, when are they going to, you know, actually make money?

Naw, service departments get audited for warranty claims all the time. If the manufacturer doesn’t like something they refuse to pay and the dealer is then out the cost of repairs.

So my second point stands, in all but very specific circumstances it will increase braking distance.