Why is it a ‘spectacular’ loss if he loses wing contests regularly, including fine in a row at this one?

Major League Eating

Yeah the author is stretching a lot here. 

Having watching a lot of Conan (mostly during the Late Night era), I don’t think this indicates that he knew anything about Masterson, just because he’s used this type of line with a lot of guests. It’s possible - it’s not like I could know for sure - but I doubt it given just this clip to go on.

The long and skinny is that if they expect recurring payments, then they need to provide recurring value. To turn on a feature isn’t recurring value. They need to be offering something that justifies a recurring fee. A service. Sat radio/nav/weather or some kind of concierge service or something like a cloud service.…

Satellite radio. That’s the list.

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Overall, the car has 37,000 miles on the clock. That’s not a lot for any normal car, but Ferraris seem to age in dog years, so that’s a hefty number for any Prancing Horse to bear.

A modern gasoline ICE is ~20-25% thermally efficient (that is, they extract 20-25% of the possible “work” from the gasoline and the rest is discarded as waste heat). Turbodiesels can get up near 40%. A decades-old, dirty-ass coal plant can get to around 60%, some of the very modern LNG plants can get to 80%. The…

Well, yeah. Tesla Fanbois seem to think that electricity comes from the air or something. Elon’s got them convinced that there is no impact from their EVs.

Please make the distinction that when we say ‘flying is safe and driving to the airport is more dangerous’ we are talking about Commercial flying. This is anything but that.

3000GT VR4, In it’s 1991 styling. I would have preferred more of a Hybrid for this, but 800hp EV with active aero, suspension, but with updated interior would be killer.

Jaguar E type.

OPTION 2: The GMT199 minivans

Duh.

Pontiac Aztec, now hear me out.

I realize how not-aerodynamic it is, but the Honda Element would be a nice addition to the EV landscape. A small, yet extremely practical hauler that’s ready for adventure would be a hot seller, I think. As long as it’s not outrageously priced... which it probably would be.

To the contrary, that many miles is a GOOD thing on a nearly 40 year old car. That means it likely didn’t spend long periods sitting and someone did everything necessary to keep it running.

Counterpoint: The maintenance required to get an Alfa to the moon means that pretty much any wear item has been replaced at least once. Someone kept this running.  An ‘87 Alfa with 230k miles is no more likely to be a ticking time bomb of deferred maintenance than one with half as many miles.

Thunderbird. Have it make thunder sounds during acceleration too.