Neutral: I’m still just peachy from that article about the Sierra tailgate bezel yesterday. My people are the best people.

If you pay a $10,000 markup on a $50,000 Kia, you so deserve your life.

Shortages lead to higher prices. That’s something which is already taught in economics. In fact, there are a few formulas in economics which center around strategically leveraging scarcity to optimize for profit. Lots of companies are watching margins soar from all of this.

The cars are being eliminated--from inventory! :p

This is a bad take.

Its the entrepreneur’s dilemma.  They start a business based on their creativity, but can make the transition to managing the nuts and bolts of a business.  Worse yet, they will micromanage the shit out of everyone and everything.

If working at a dealership taught me anything, it’s that we here at this site are the oddballs that care as much as we do about our cars. Most people dgaf.

Buying a new house now also often means paying 20% more than asking AND foregoing an inspection, just to get ahead of other sellers in line.  I wouldn’t buy a $10,000 car without an inspection, and people are skipping it on $500k homes.  The stories I am hearing are crazy right now.

Built to American design standards.

Most of these “life-cycle” analyses also look at the environmental cost of mining and refining the components of the EV drivetrain, but conveniently forget to include the environmental costs of extracting oil and only look at the CO2 output from driving.

Second gear: That’s not a vote of no confidence, that’s a vote of asset diversification and cashing in big time.
For all we know, the guy left because realized “to hell with it, I’m worth hundreds of millions of dollars, my boss is a tool, and don’t need to work for him to live like a king forever”
which is exactly the…

Has a video game ever influenced an entire market the same way Gran Turismo has? I could say that perhaps Initial D (and the related TV show) inflated the values of late 80s AE86 chassis cars... but Gran Turismo has turned an entire fleet of Japanese cars into unobtainium.

I remember a fellow commenter telling me that I’d probably be disappointed with driving an R34 GT-R through the lens of today’s performance cars. I really couldn’t remember the performance specs on it. It could go from 0-60 in like 4.5 seconds! Sure, there are a lot more vehicles that can do that today than there were…

$75B in 5-years really does seem as all-in as a company can get.

You are delusional.

Imagine getting a $500k/y salary for 18 months for being a complete failure AFTER being fired/removed/quitting.

I don’t even know why they include Neutral any more. I honestly just skip over it everyday at this point unconsciously. I guess my brain just assumes it just going to be an irrelevant story about how the author did something in his apartment or on his bicycle.

“Neutral: How Are You?”

I was thinking the same thing. If I can nap and arrive safe while not being liable I can almost stomach paying per hour. 

Neutral: