A bean counter is literally define as: a person, typically an accountant or bureaucrat, perceived as placing excessive emphasis on controlling expenditure and budgets. So either an accountant or someone who isn't an accountant performing accounting duties.. Let me guess, you work in finance or as an accountant?

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I worked at a Honda dealership like.. nearly 10 years ago? They had a lady who ran her own food place, above a snack bar but below a full fledged restaurant?

Haha, its not their fault, they don't make airbags. You're right! but the truth is no OEM makes their own shit outside of body stampings. They just outsource and assemble. Sooooo, never say never!

Ok, if you define bean counter so broadly as anyone who says "no" then sure. But a bean counter is specifically an accountant. The engineer may be a bean counter if he's performing accounting tasks. but then he's being a bean counter and not an engineer.. if i'm working on your car, am I your mechanic? even if I'm…

Not true, even remotely. To presume the engineers have no grasp of the implications their decisions have is, well, presumptuous.. What you’ll get is a car that either costs 20% more but is twice as good, or you’ll get a car that has the same price, but you’ll substitute bullshit features for real ones. Don’t forget…

typically the people that high up also have MBA's and possibly more. So they aren't daft to the world of finance. Many engineers get an MBA, how many accountants get an engineering degree?

Ideally those decisions should be handled by someone higher up in the food chain. Sure the dynamicist and the aerodynamics guys might compete but the product manager (if they’re an engineer) should be able to understand both angles and make the right choice. I think only an engineer is properly qualified to assess the…

What a foul pun.

So, about that first letter. The guy whos great online and terrible IRL. You proposed that online dating and real life dating are the same in the end. This has been a curious topic of discussion between my friends and I. I’m not sure if you’ve written about it already but if you haven’t it would be interesting to…

Oh yeah. Milking that W166 Platform! I also suspect a Grand Cherokee under there. err, I mean Mercedes ML? So what we have is a jeep in maser-drag with a merc-FCA identity crisis? I want to meet the person who buys this thing. I wonder if it will be as prone to rollovers as jeeps are... Don't moose test this one.

So. since this is pretty much identical to a scout, which one would you pick and why?

I love me some third gens. Even own a black '84 - so pretty close to this. But 4K USD for this? naw. The only valuable part is the engine. and it will cost more than the engines value to fix everything she fucked up. There are better third-gen deals to be had, sir.

Well, most cars will have a life of like 5-7 years. And those are mass-produced. If we assume it takes as long to develop a P1 as it does a caravan, why is the P1's lifespan only ~2 years? It feels like they're killing it off too quickly.

I can see the argument of using it as a test bed if you will. Sort of like GM did with magnetic dampers. But I also feel like its lost opportunity. McLaren not having a car competing in the top tier of performance is sad. Unless a "P2" is unveiled next year. I feel like they could milk the platform for more money and…

I don't mean the carbon fiber version in particular. Its relatively easy to create new drawings for CF parts that already exist. I mean the entire P1 as a whole. Its only been around for like 2 years. It feels like just yesterday someone reviewing a P1 was a big deal cause they were so new and now they're dead…

Wipers? streaky wipers are a huge pet peeve of mine. With a hydrophobic coating on the windshield, you almost don't even need wipers in high-rain high-speed situations.

Can someone explain to me the business strategy behind this? like, not your speculation but the facts. I mean, most manufacturers will milk a model line or generation as much as they can. I can only imagine the development and production costs of the P1 are extremely high. They only built a handful of them for what?…

Focus group of horrible people. lol, pretty much.

O.K.