All of that financing was contingent and none of it will be going through now that Musk engaged in this weird quest to tank Twitter’s value and increase his own losses.

The next car I buy will be an electric car. It’ll be a few years because I don’t quite think the technology is there yet, and I’ll have to spend about $10k upgrading the electrical system in my house first to be able to install a charger, but be that as it may. Given the option of two different, largely similar cars,…

I’ve driven plenty of cars with 8- and 10- speed automatics, but none of them make the 6- speed automatic in my 2015 Mustang GT feel “ancient.” Seems weird.

100% untrue. I’m in the demographic who would buy one of those cars and the presence or absence of a $7,500 credit would be important enough for me to be determinative of whether I pulled the trigger or not.

I saw a convertible Challenger a few years ago and I sat and stared at it for a solid 30 seconds before I realized why it struck me as so strange. Seems like a no-brainer to have made these from the factory but, oh well.

Literally the only desirable thing about this car is the paint job. It’s inferior in every way to the SN197 or (especially) S550 Bullitt Mustangs. All well in good that it’s in pristine condition, but this owner picked the wrong generation of Mustang to keep in show-quality preservation. ND. 

There are two possible outcomes of the Delaware lawsuit: either Musk is ordered to pay the difference between the price he agreed to pay and the current market cap (which is about $10 billion; Musk would need to sell about another $3.5 billion of Tesla stock to get the cash for that, which he could do), or specific…

I’m calling this now, and I might be wrong, but: when Elon Musk loses the Twitter lawsuit (which he absolutely will) and Twitter ends up owning like 30% of Tesla, Tesla will crumble and by 2024 will no longer exist.

Inflation is a good thing for debtors. If the rate of inflation is higher than the interest rate on the debt, you actually make money by not paying the debt off. Even if the interest rate is higher than inflation, inflation still helps lower the value of the debt you owe.

A potential answer here: if your interest rate is lower than the rate of inflation, then you actually have a financial incentive to keep your loan behind but not in default. If you have a 5% interest rate on your car loan and inflation is running at 8%, then every month you don’t pay your car loan you’re making money.

I think you’re extraordinarily lucky to have had such short delays pre-pandemic. My longest delays pre-pandemic:

What that trucker doesn’t realize is that the independent owner/operator model is going to be going the way of the dodo bird, making those points irrelevant. Long haul trucking is the best possible use case for automated vehicles, and it’s going to be sooner than you think that trucks are going to be entirely…

A BMW i8, which is a beautiful, gorgeous car that doesn’t get enough love for reasons I can’t quite understand. 

I picked up my Mustang from fresh off the assembly line in December of 2014. Six months later I met my now-wife; 3 years after that we had our first kid; a year and a half after that we had our second kid. I’ve driven my wife and both kids in the Mustang, but it’s a stretch. For a single person the only reason I could…

I used to have a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. I worked on it a lot and sold it for more than I bought it for, and I absolutely loved the way it looked, but the brakes were essentially non-existent and the three speed automatic meant you were never really in the power band.

I’ve driven Ferraris and McLarens and Bentleys and Maybachs and all manner of fancy schmancy expensive cars, but nothing will ever hold a candle to the absolute buttery luxury and eyeball glue from pedestrians that you get from driving around Manhattan in drop-top Rolls. Just, nothing compares to it. It makes a…

Turbocharged. Drop-top. Leather seating. Three speed automatic to really get your juices flowing. Luxury badge. Dual power mirrors. If it’s the 1980's and you want the absolute best the automotive world has to offer, there’s only one choice: Plymouth Sundance convertible.

Having a hard time seeing how anybody could go ND on this. $4k for a mostly-done project car that seemingly just needs some paint to be an around-town cruiser that will draw eyeballs? NP all the way.

This is like when I used to use use Windows XP way after the date it was supposed to have been sunsetted, and every time I would restart the computer dozens of different warnings about various things not working would pop up, and I’d just have to click out of them repeatedly until they all went away, except that just…

It wasn’t the driver himself who accrued all those violations — it was his car. That means most / all of those violations were from speed cameras or red light cameras, and under NY law those violations can’t be assessed against a driver’s license, because you can’t prove that a particular individual was the one…