3rd: Carvana’s timing was impeccable given the impending short squeeze and now it’s about ready to pop. You see, Carvana is not a financially solvent company and probably never will be. Their algorhithm-based pricing and purchasing system is tragically flawed and like most tech companies, the only way they can exist…

I came here to say the same thing unless maybe it is pure nostalgia. I guess it could be some sort of nostalgia but if I wanted to buy one of my hero cars from childhood or early adulthood, it would have some miles on it so I could get it at a decent price and not feel bad about putting miles on it.

Sure, they are terrible and essentially made from chopsticks and chewing gum but the SRT-4 engine is easy and cheap to tune. I think of it as a soggy, wet, cardboard box with a very tasty burrito hiding inside.

Air springs don’t really work if they can’t get the suspension geometry correct as well. Last time I checked, they were having issues with maintaining traction through the range of the suspension. Sometimes air springs are not the magic cure-all and old fashioned mechanical engineering is required. I say this as a…

“Everyone should be questioning how DC officials entered into a contract with a known con artist, using taxpayer funds to pay him for a device whose technology can be easily debunked.”

Yeah, they are priced closer to premium and entry level luxury EVs than standard EVs and I cannot fathom anybody cross-shopping a VF8 with a similarly priced Polestar or even an EV6 for that matter.

I wonder if they were late-gen test mules although I guess you could call all of their current production models late-gen test mules.

How could anyone fathom the idea of buying a Vinfast vehicle given their lack of ability to bring a finished product to the market and all the press associated with it.  I wouldn’t even drive a free loaner or trial car given potential safety issues and the desire to not want to be stranded anywhere.  

I am all for activism but couldn’t they have done a better job memorializing their point on the back of the ship instead of painting it to look like it was rear-ended by a meat-crayon on a wave runner?

It took me 3 months and half a dozen orders from the usual suspects for German car parts (ECS, FCP, Turner, etc.) to replace the thermostat on my 2002 M5. Yes, a 2-3 hour job took many days of wrenching, ordering parts, wrenching, ordering parts, wrenching, and then bleeding the coolant system. But, hear me out, it…

It likely wreaks havoc with their logistical planning systems and creates inefficiencies in their route planning and statistics keeping.  Regardless, they do get to re-sell your seat so I feel it is an even tradeoff.

I couldn’t agree more. I did something like this many years ago when trying to get from Oslo to Vienna for a reasonable price. It was a bit different though - a round trip was cheaper than a one-way trip so I booked the round trip and didn’t take the flight back to Oslo.

You are spot on with your assessment. Just think about when the original Mac launched in the mid 80's and the kids whose parents used nerdy, boring PCs for work gravitated towards this hip new way of approaching technology. It continued through the 90's and of course lead to their establishment and huge market share…

I was just talking to my FIL about how Toyota and Honda went all in on hybrids and now are playing catch up to German, Korean, and even American auto manufacturers (let alone Tesla). Toyota’s JV with Subaru seems to be average at best and Honda needed to borrow GM’s Ultium platform to bring their first mass-produced…

My Schwinn (back when they were still good bikes) was about $450 new, purchased with my high school grad gift money and it was my main set of wheels through college until it was stolen. I still have the Cannondale I replaced it with (thank you, renter’s insurance) in my garage twenty years later!

I came to say the same thing. When I traveled for fun in my early adult years, I saw seatbelts as a nuisance but after taking a new job that required frequent travel in my thirties, I learned quickly about the importance  of seatbelts even when things seem sooth and ok.  Especially in the summer time where weather…

Tesla is at the top of my list. My biggest issue is with the asshole pulling the strings and making ridiculous decisions that as an engineer, leave me scratching my head. For example, why would you put those stupid “Falcon Doors” on the rear of what is essentially an expensive family CUV? It seems they were trying to…

I thought the exact same thing. I rode a bike and took public transportation before buying my first “nice” car at the age of 25 which cost a whopping $26K on the street.

I remember seeing the late 70's/early 80's eraV8 Vantage in my big book of cars from my childhood and falling in love with it’s “muscle car in a British suit” good looks. It is great to see Aston take a step back to revisit one of its best looking cars of the past for a limited edition instead of building another…

If you walk more, you will wear out your shoes more often and have to buy new shoes.  I recommend going barefoot for the ultimate deal.