I had a lot of fun explaining to a group of racing-illiterate folks why Leigh Diffey was losing his mind when this happened. Basically, when the first bobble hits, recovering it without spinning or hitting the wall is like a QB throwing a *perfect* pass into triple coverage. Then do that again for each subsequent bobbl…

I think that they killed the Bolt and then un-killed it in the same year lends itself more towards them just sort of flying by the seat of their pants than “greed”. GM (and the whole market) kinda found out the model Tesla did starting with overpiced boutique EV’s before the cheaper ones wasn’t able to be repeated.

I cannot recommend “Indy 500 Pics” on twitter enough. He has some treasures every year, but the rain delay this year created something exceptional.

Having the shareholders (and possibly the board too) be part of your cult and responsible for approving your offensively high compensation package is some real life Citizen Kane shit. Would actually be kind of bad ass if, y’know, the guy wasn’t the absolute biggest tool on earth.

Whoops, I meant that to mean examining the merits/faults of Marxism, but I guess the answer works either way. My thinking is that most post-McCarthyism US education at any level would refuse to even go near *talking* about Marxism, other than calling it an evil device of satan. I guess bonus points to your program…

That’s profoundly interesting. I have to ask: was the premise there to genuinely examine it for its merits/faults, or was it about focusing more on the faults and be a sort of dismantling for it? My cynical intuition would have been that most programs skew towards the latter.

but I don’t understand how my 27 year old 5500 lb lifted truck is less of a hazard to other people than a 25 year old microtruck that might lose in a fight with a flagpole.

My understanding is that the Honda Prologue and Blazer EV are the same product underneath. Like a Hydrogen FCV, the legwork on doing BEV’s is just a tough sell for one manufacturer to manage by themselves, and an easier burden to bear when two giants are sharing it.

Saw this elsewhere, but the actual reason is the rules didn’t apply to him. He was actually supposed to be going to a place where the cop had orders to not let people go.

More importantly Boeing doesn’t even make the engines. If this is a factory/design issue, then it’s a GE, Pratt & Whitney, or Rolls Royce problem.

Hot take: Screw trying to balance practical and fun. Just do something really stupid and live with the consequences:

That Challenger rec compelled me to check and see if high mile/ 10yo examples actually sell for that much money. They do. Which is horrifying.

I’m honestly surprised the Merc is that cheap? Would have figured all the mint 50's & 60's SL’s were deep into 6 figures and only changing hands through auction houses.

Alright, the Fiesta is the correct recommendation, but we need to have an honest to goodness talk about what Andy found. Early 2010's FCA products make it to 140k miles? And are changing hands for 5 figures?

Honestly didn’t even know it was on sale yet.

And heck, I think it has more to do with the fact that the Cybertruck had 5 years worth of order backlog they can blow through, whereas Rivian is just selling their vehicles in the relatively conventional way.

This is giving me PTSD for the arguments on the internet re: Baltimore, where I couldn’t tell who was acting in bad faith:

China backing its industry with low-to-zero interest loans from its central bank is definitely meaningfully different than the US taxing what China produces as a result. Both nations subsidize their industries to an extent, but in this specific instance, one policy is a response to the other; not mutually assured…

I think the problem is that if the Chinese state is going to back its own industry in a way the US won’t, you’ve got to do *something* to handcuff them. The playing field is always going to be tilted towards the state supported industry, regardless of if its providing affordable products to the consumer. The Chinese…

The shame is that there is a valid point here that OP isn’t making. Neither the US or China is close to a shining beacon on a hill for a free and fair market, the latter is just a lot further from it than the former. Making the two coexist in a global economy has a lot of weird results for everyone.