Fair, but I’d still call that retail investing. Even if it’s people using an algorithm that automatically buys/sells based on live updates, that’s still dependent on a LOT of people partaking in it that didn’t have access to it 25 years ago.

Ahh, that’s right.

I remember back when Musk started messing with Twitter’s verification process, somebody impersonated a big pharmaceutical company (think it was Janssen) and claimed to be drastically cutting prices for a bunch of drugs. The stock for the company took a shit immediately.

The real kicker is at some point, they’ll probably stop updating the software for your model year, but it’ll still cost subscription to use the system. They’ll claim its some kind of hardware limitation, but the real reason will be: Buy a new car, asshole!

Oh god, is this one of those Pontiac’s that needed you to disassemble a bunch of the frame to get the battery out? If so, I’m betting the seller though this would be an easy flip, but is now demanding 22 grand to compensate him for all the time/rage associated with that process. 

Maybe it’s just this gif, but having never scene the movie before, this looks like it was done in miniature.

Indeed, this warrants the more classical term: fishtail.

The important thing is getting people to understand that widespread charging either where they live or work isn’t optional. We aren’t going to be able to “replace” a gas station fill up with a L3 charging station visit once every couple of weeks, it needs to be L2 charging wherever the car is parked for 4+ hours a…

Also add in anyone who owned one in the 90's and early 00's, and can’t be bothered to do any research into the brand now. I have so many friends I can’t talk out of buying newer Nissans because they were actually treated fairly well by products of the pre-Ghosn era.

Probably a bit of Column A and Column B. While I think a note in the passenger’s native tongue might help keep them calm in this situation, there’s no wrong answer here because of both colonialism, and the international language of aviation and business.

For a project in college, me and my friends came up with a business model for buying high-mile but no-rust trucks in the southwest and shipping them to the rust belt where such things would probably be more valuable. I’m still convinced it work. 

I’m convinced their ownership of the market for people trying to be outwardly outdoorsy is something that happened on accident. They were originally selling small rugged vehicles only to people who needed such a thing, then it just so happened to become fashionable, so they leaned into it. Same thing probably would…

Indeed, the fault in all these cars is that while the initial quality might have been good, they just did not last. They were the last of that era where most cars were write-offs at 100k miles. The youngest would have been 12 years old by the time cash for clunkers happened. 

Folks, I don’t need my commercial vehicles to be lookers, but the whole “Ram grille multiplied b 1/4th” thing here is not it.

I mean, you’re seeing an exercise of the former in California: CSHR is being built much closer to a global standard of high-speed rail with few to none at-grade crossings, separation from freight traffic, and more thorough design work general... but it’s also years behind and millions of dollars over budget.

It’s magnified by the fact that so few of them have survived, too. That combined with the fact that it’s what I grew up in has made me a crank for this era of GM cars in general. Anytime I see something like my Mom’s ‘92 Century or my Grandma’s 6th gen LeSabre, my head snaps around immediately.

I probably would’ve done the same with my parents’ if it hadn’t gotten destroyed by a cherry picker when I was 10. Would have loved to whip that thing around in high school. 

Oh man, I’ve got the worst opinion on this, but I’m going to ride it anyway:

The “reporting” on this specific subject has just been the worst for a growing issue. Every single scrap of information gets its own piece on the site with a “WOW HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS” bit of writing thrown onto it. I miss the version of this place that would aggregate all that information in one single piece and…

Not only that, but the premise of the article itself just makes it worse. Raw sales numbers without context is probably the least relevant data point you could add to a discussion that has a lot of moving parts.