I like the 4 way idea. Each person from a different locale being prideful in their locales cars/trucks.

Forgot about the Japanese/Koreans .. they make a ton of cars as well.

That would be like betty white's show "off their rockers"

Maybe I am missing something, but when you drain your emergency fund, you then go into savings. Now if your point was when you have no savings, then I think the article should be renamed. I was unemployed for 2 years and lost my emergency fund after about a year. I hit some of my retirement accounts to make up for…

One is used for guesstimating and one is used for GAAP accounting. This isn't just automotive, this is all industries.

True when making estimates, but not true for actual reporting. When reporting labor costs, like they are in the article above, I doubt they are including building, utilities, etc. in their "labor costs". The unions would tell them to get out of town with that data.

I think it depends on what kinds of programs you are studying, how good a student you are, and what your expectations are. I have two graduate degrees (A MS and a MBA). The MBA I did for fun. Literally, I was bored and did the MBA to learn more. The funny thing as my behavior for it was "try hard, and let the…

Offering insurance does not mean they pay any part of it. I worked for a company which offered insurance to its part time employees. Basically it was "you pay full cost, we cover nothing, but you get access to it." At the time if you were working 1/2 time, you were making about $200 a week. The full monty in terms…

You are confusing operational costs with labor costs. Labor costs are directly associated with labor. This would be Labor ($xx/hour), plus the cost of any benefits associated with that individual (health/life insurance, unemployment, bonuses, ss, medicare, etc.). A typical formula looks like Cost of Goods Sold =…

Why is it when everyone talks about wages they talk about a decent future, living wage, and middle class. Who is to say that a specific job is supposed to pay a living wage, making you middle class and creating a decent future. Flipping burgers as a line worker is not supposed to be a full time job for the 50 years…

I knew everything you listed as dirty laundry from reading the press. Sorry but those were not big secrets.

I recently got rid of my land line (my kids are not in college, and I am consolidating) so I moved my home to my cell. Damn do I get a lot of crap calls. I have three plans.

So you lost money in an investment vehicle where 1) you get to pick stocks, 2) You only get to pick stocks in things some director at your company picks, 3) Are not able to do your own research/listen to experts. So yeah - you lost money. 401ks are bad for that because they allow people with agendas to pick the…

I do understand the daily driver and lack of range anxiety however the long distance haul is what I care about. I am not independently wealthy, thus I have 1 car. If I am going to spend 80-100k on a car (All rebates should never be considered in the price of a car), I definitely cannot have an older one for longer…

This program had a lot of losers, not because of the program exactly, but because of the paperwork. I remember lots of companies here in Indiana that applied for those loans, good companies, good minds, good products, and wanted those loans and the government kept pushing through red tape, and pushing out timelines,…

Glad they stuck together, but I will want to see those episodes. Look - Jeremy is an arse, we all know that. May and Hammond know this better than most. The issue is they know that for this show, Jeremy is the golden goose. If they kill it off, this show goes down the drain. They have other shows, but really this…

My dad and Uncle graduated from GMI (before it was called Kettering). He extols the virtues of the co-op placement as well. Of course he did not exactly got to GMI for that reason, but mostly for the Vietnam deferment that he got for going to that school, and working for GM.

Absolutely it paid off. I never took out loans, and paid cash every semester (my cash, not my parents), and never qualified for scholarships/Financial aid (due to my parents income). I would have never gotten the jobs I have had over the years without my degrees. AS, AS, BS, MS, MBA. My MS was paid by me being a…

I just wonder about this (the leasing). Pickup trucks are notorious for having resale value through the roof. Well the whole concept of leasing is to take the initial hit of depreciation and paying it down. So if a typical 3 year old truck, with 36k miles, will probably be 66% the value of the MSRP (according to…

Ram 1500 with a diesel 3.0. Off road capable, smallish diesel, and a pickup truck to boot.