I just finally got around to depositing a giant canvas mint bag of pennies that had been building up for the past 10 years, so I've mainly been thinking of copper as a thin plating layer over a zinc wafer that costs 7/10 of a cent more than its face value to manufacture and isn't really worth my time to deal with.

Right, the median is more important than the average, and we’re actually #23 there. After Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, Australia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Belgium, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Ireland, France, the UK, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Spain, Austria, Italy, Malta, South Korea, Norway, Taiwan (or East China), and…

Hell, I know that’s where I’d be if I could afford it. Its like the Beverly Hills of countries, except not vulgar and awful. 

Technically, we’re the 21st wealthiest country by median individual wealth, but 2nd in average wealth (after Switzerland).

Are we sure this is a car from 2019? no giant grille, no fake floating roof pillar, no shiny black plastic fake windows, no exaggerated fender flares, no crazy side creases

He considered them trustworthy because of their morality and lack of drug/alcohol use. Between the 1950s and 1970s, the top executive ranks of Hughes Tool/Summa were stacked with LDS church members, with Bob Maheu being one of the few prominent exceptions. 

The stock  Corona was such an elegant little car, always thought they looked more expensive than they really were.

We had two of them already- USS Akron and USS Macon

As late as the 70s, the Navy was considering a full flight test program as part of a research project into a heavy lift ground effect vehicle, like the Soviet ekranoplans. Hughes had maintained the plane in perfect flight ready condition for decades, and after his death, his heirs were getting ready to lay off the…

Kind of, if he ever gets into the movie and casino industries, becomes totally consumed by his OCD and completely retreats from public view, trusting management of his empire to an army of Mormons, then gets addicted to heroin. 

I didn’t realize the two had any interchangeable sheet metal

They spent a lot of money on the Alfa relaunch and the new Maserati SUV, and Fiat did have a pretty aggressive new model strategy for a while - 4 models launched in a pretty short time span, coupled with the reintroduction of the brand. The trouble is consumers just didn't really respond, if the existing models aren't…

They supposedly have two crossover/MPV type things on the way, and they just split the Pacifica line into two separate nameplates (Pacifica and Voyager) to give the illusion of a wider product range.

This is the best Fiero-based replica I've seen in a long time, but that still puts it on the level of a Chinese Rolex copy with an ETA clone movement instead of quartz. Just buy a respectable real car for the money, and you won't have to look like an idiot when someone asks you if it's really a Ferrari. 

Someone near me has a ‘99 Discovery, running, driving, road legal, with a decent interior and no rust for $2995. Of course, I’m about 12 hours from Michigan. 

The company that bought Fisker’s assets out of bankruptcy was Karma Automotive, and they renamed the Fisker Karma as the Karma Revero, because the deal didn't include the Fisker name. The article makes it sound as though it's the same people, as opposed to something new Henrik Fisker is doing.

The Germans are a precise people, after all.

Arguing over a fraction of a second means we're already there.

I thought using Karma as the marque was because they couldn’t get the rights to Fisker, for some reason? Was there some deal I missed?

Isnt Sondors in there somewhere, too.