Woah that rear hatch area looks a lot like my Porsche Cayman. Engine nowhere to be seen, lots of awkwardly-shaped storage space, fluid caps on the side. Very cool! The question is, how much of that space will be taken up with the roof of the inevitable convertible version?

TL;DR: it’s the rich kids - not the student loan payers - that don’t care about cars because they can afford to get around without them.

I think one of the most remarkable things about the Trump administration is how much republicans have effectively admitted they really don’t care about the economy. If a democrat president was taking the exact same actions that Trump is taking, republicans would be screaming at the top of their lungs about how the…

Great review. 

I have yet to see any evidence that George RR Martin has the ability or will to conclude this story in written form any better than the show. I think he wrote himself into a hole and has no idea how to get himself out of it. But he doesn’t need to because he handed it off to someone else to do the hard work of tying…

I think by “not too broke” you mean “not disgustingly wealthy enough” but I will oblige and build my own as if I am a Robber Barron.

People do tend to underestimate the influence of dumb luck and laziness. For 100 years, “Focus on getting better at making ICE vehicles that are reliable and affordable and keep you profitable” was a pretty good strategy. Now, that’s not the best strategy. Apparently “create expensive, pretty looking EVs that don’t…

Not exactly. A franchise is another corporation, which protects the owner from personal liability if the business fails. Also, Dunkin gives each franchise an effective monopoly in a certain geographic area. They approve the location for a new sale point and don’t allow anyone else to build a Dunkin next door. That…

Agreed. I prefer the quiet electric whine of an electric motor over the sound of that 4 cylinder.

‘07 Cayman owner here. People sometimes ask me if I would consider an EV sports car like a Cayman and my opinion is yes, I would consider it if it’s still fun and exciting to drive, but I can almost guarantee it’ll be way too expensive for me until it’s about 10-15 years old, at which point I would be concerned about…

Location really only seems to matter when the players can’t move to make more money (within the rules) - aka College sports, Olympics, World Cup.

Exactly. If you order a car in March, you will get March incentives, even if the vehicle shows up in July. The bigger problem is that most people don’t want to wait several months for their car to get produced. Most people shopping for a car are expecting to have a new car within the next 30 days or less. If you’ve…

Very true. There are literally thousands of order-able configurations for the F-150 alone. Each combination adds additional complexity to production.

Gotcha. I think that’s actually how car dealers in dense European cities do it. Unfortunately that doesn’t solve the dealer’s main problem which is the financing costs of holding inventory, which they incur no matter where it’s located.

How would the vehicle get there in 5 days? Producing a vehicle from order to delivery takes at least a month or two. And that’s if the dealer has allocation. Usually it takes closer 4 or 5 months.

1. You have to go through dealerships because it’s the law.

Oddly I was able to accept all of the plot holes for the most part except for when Peter Parker goes back to high school and everyone else is still in high school? What? What have they been doing for the last 5+ years? 

Unless you’re a bouncer filtering who gets in the club.

I lived in a college town most of my life and this is what you see in a typical sorority driveway: Escape, Jeep Wrangler, MKC, Jeep Renegade, Range Rover Sport, Jeep Compass, 4Runner, Mercedes G-wagon, Rav 4 and a bunch of Uber drivers.

I successfully negotiated extra fees down because I literally did not have the money. I had a $4,000 down payment in cash and a fixed amount financed through my credit union. The rest of my money was spoken for - I was moving and had a lot of bills. The salesman called me and said I owed like $200+ in “document fees” a…