“To lower our lender’s risk, we had to increase customer dissatisfaction”

And just like *that* I went from complete indifference about this Corvette to actually rooting for it and looking at my finances to see if I could afford one on my modest salary. I can’t. Yet.

This is what happens when wilfully ignorant people are permitted to make financial decisions

None of the replicars spontaneously caught fire- a sure sign they weren't authentic. 

Can we not hope people are rapists please? You don't have a rapist without a rape victim, making it a pretty ghoulish thing to say.

This claim that Uber/Lyft were never meant to be a full-time gig is something the industry keeps saying, but it is pretty disingenuous. Why do they keep offering drivers all kinds of bonus and incentive programs to drive more and more hours then? Also they are playing a volume game – they know as well as you and I…

Having mentored multiple small business owner and new independent contractors, I cannot stress enough how little people understand about cost of doing business and how that relates to billing rate. The number one issue I see is people not charging enough because they
a)Base their rate off of their past salary,…

they’d be assigned specific areas and time blocks, with no flexibility (hmm, like a cab company?).

It’s not just CA. This happening across the world.

THIS. Supercapacitors will be in play at hypercar price points. They might not help much at top speed (and who really will ever take this to top speed), but it will help for each and every depressing of the accelerator.

100-200k might not be able to, but I’d guess above that you can do them.

Is it a true Lotus? Debatable.

Interesting.

I just read yesterday an interesting piece about GM’s cluelessness in the 70's that lead them to increasing the speed of the Vega production line from 60 cars/hour to 100. Cars then went down the assembly line with parts in the driver’s seat that the workers didn’t have time to finish putting in. GM also cut most of…

Trust me, nobody around here gives FCA a free pass on anything.  They’re consistently the butt of jokes.  You probably don’t want to use them as a comparison to Tesla.

I don’t know why you’re so absurdly angry about this, but here’s a post by SCCA champion Jason Isley explaining that an increase in sidewall adds less weight than an increase in wheel size.

Go back to yelling about your grass grandpa.

This tells me two things.

There are potholes in northern cities that would almost swallow your 911 whole. Honestly, it’s like driving through an obstacle course of 6+ inch sharp cornered bomb craters on a lot of city streets. In the spring when we get the freeze/thaw cycle, 20 inch low profile tires have about a 2 week life expectancy.

Takuro was referring to the pretty big gap that’s currently between this particular bumper and the vehicle it was previously attached to.

I came in to say that at least GM in the late 70s-early 80s designed it to get out of the warranty period before the bumpers fell off.