This sounds about right. The Range Rover Sport is for people who want the brand recognition and overall shape, but they don’t want to pay for the full size/capability of the full-on Range Rover. Ranger Rover Sport owners get to say they own a *Range* Rover (instead of a peasant Land Rover) - and anybody that actually…

4) Complain about Ford’s naming choices every time a new version comes out.

In Germany they have something called a Spielstrasse - literally meaning a “play street”, where kids, pedestrians and bicycles have right of way at all times and the speed limit is 20km/h (about 12mph). I think this idea is great for urban residential areas!

“It is times like these when I wonder, how is it that the company that makes the most popular vehicle in America, the F-Series pickup, a vehicle that is profitable as all hell, can’t seem to make a profit?”

I agree that I wouldn’t replace my ICE car with an EV today, but if I could afford a second car, it would almost certainly be a Tesla or Mach-E. 90% of the trips I take are start and end at home and are less than 150 miles. Having an ICE car just for the remaining 10% would be more than enough. 

Every single republican/conservative has the same tired old story about being at a grocery store and seeing someone on welfare buying some non-essential good. At the same time, they seem totally fine with the government handing out billions to lazy trust fund kids so they can go blow it on bottle service and…

This assumes that if Whitmer just said “ok everyone can open now” that people would rush out to restaurants, airports, bars and retail shops all while cases and deaths continue to rise. I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable going to any of those places for more than just an order pick up until the daily # of new cases is…

America is already a socialist country - but only for the wealthy. Everyone else gets rugged free market capitalism.

That sucks dude, bad luck. Stay in there though, it’ll be worth the wait!

I just thought of the flip side of this too - which would be people who made less than $75k in 2018/2019 but recently got a new job that puts them in the 6 figure range for 2020. Now they’re getting the $1200 while people who lost jobs are not. 

We don’t know when it will end, but we know it will end. Every one of us that makes it through will have a day in the future where we look around and realize that we got through it, and things are starting to get back to normal. No point in setting some sort of due date for it, but just remember that it’s coming. We…

While the pay-per-minute business model seems like a house of cards, electric scooters and other small electric mobility devices themselves are great for personal use. Short trips around town are way less of a burden when you don’t have to find a parking spot and you don’t show up everywhere sweaty in the summer like…

I get that but wouldn’t it be even MORE efficient to just send the same check to everyone, then use 2020 income tax returns to reclaim the money that was given out to people who didn’t need it after all?

Fair enough, but I can speak from experience that financial literacy isn’t terribly common among dealership employees. I’m not saying that everyone should expect a handout, I just wish that if the government is doing handouts anyways, they’d do it in a more straightforward way.

It is admittedly an extreme case meant to point out that the means testing is an inefficient way to try to help people out compared to just sending the same check to everyone and taxing it back on higher incomes later.

I thought the stimulus was based on Adjusted Gross Income, meaning pre-tax?

Deferment implies that it’ll be paid back at some point, but they’re light on the details for when. I would wonder how that affects the pre-tax 401k matching. The one silver lining for younger, lower-salary employees is that if they can continue to put 10% of each paycheck into the market with a company match, they…

A salesperson who made $100k last year and is supporting a 5 person unmarried family (not uncommon) would see $0 from the stimulus and $0 from sales commissions. Really makes you wonder why they had to make it means tested based on how much money you made in the past, not how bad your situation is now...

product development doesn’t end when you have a chassis that can move under its own power. It requires thousands of hours of real-life testing with lots of prototypes to make sure everything works the way it’s supposed to. 

Agreed. I think a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday office work week with Monday and Friday as permanent work from home days would be ideal in my position.