Nice. I wish I had more time to work on cars like you :)

Florida teen becomes Florida Man thanks to TikTok.

...and with this failure of the Changli it went from being “cheap and endearing” to being “incompetent deathtrap”

It’s great that you can get a deal on the used/CPO car that you want, but I’d never recommend my friends buy a $25K X5 over a Honda Civic / CRV. The maintenance on that X5 will be skyrocketing after a couple years, while that Honda will keep going for 10 years with nothing but oil changes.

The average consumer watches TV commercials for cars, which have contradicted A and B for decades. Marketing always beats logic. AWD and CUVs mean extra profit for the manufacturer.

This thing is much more at home in the Flintstone’s cartoons than in Mad Max. Mad max would have a bunch of sharp metal pieces, flame throwers, and some type of rock band equipment (drums, guitars, amps, etc) on board.

A couple of thoughts:

There’s a reason for the depreciation: maintenance cost.

There are different classes of shares in most companies. Some come with full voting rights, and some come with massively diluted voting rights (for example, a Class B share in Berkshire Hathaway has 1/10,000th the voting power of a Class A share).

Nice attention grabbing headline you got there. Now, please tell me how I can convert a stack of $1000 into food on a child’s table in Afghanistan or some other failed state? Is it possible? Yes, but it is complicated.

I wonder if there would be much complication related to engine computer type stuff.  I guess you can just swap this too, right?

Seems like almost all of Dune was published in serial format across 8 issues of the Analog Science Fiction periodical (https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/2111/frank-herbert/dune-in-analog-magazine?soldItem=true).

I guess a used engine is like $1000?  In today’s used car market I wonder if it’s worth it.  I guess you can’t find too many reasonable replacement cars for $1000.

I feel your pain. I had a 3800 V6 do the same to me about 200 miles from my destination while driving through North Carolina :(

No doubt that EV’s are more expensive than gas vehicles at production — I was just arguing that electricity is almost always cheaper at gas.  (This is valid at *home* rates, not at something like DC quick charge stations!)

Overall probably a NP for some person who likes the G-wagon. Perhaps a $95K the person will have some extra $1000s lying around to correct that horrendous hood. Now I finally know where the Pontiac Aztek designer works: Brabus SUV hood design department.

Electrons are almost always cheaper than gas even with the gas tax subtracted.

That’s what Audi claims, I don’t think they’d be motivated to report a worse 0-60 time on their website, right?

I hope that is what happens. I just wish we could force all of our congress members to also have 100% of their stocks in a blind trust and prevent any real estate transaction that is outside of their primary residence.

1. I think this guy needs to specify whether he wants a daily driver or a weekend exotic. No one is going to daily drive a Testarossa, and probably not a 10 year old Aston Martin either — at least not for very long before towing it to a $25+K service.