The annoying thing is it would have taken so little for it to actually be one of the better options in its class. It’s a good looking car, and IMO just about the right size for most people that feel like they need a crossover. I haven’t understood Infiniti for quite a while. They’re perfectly capable of making good…

It wasn’t on purpose, but I did realize it as soon as I typed it out lol

Sounds like problems that could easily be solved by adding a shroud around the balls to loosely hold them on, including brushes to constantly clean off the picked up debris. Wouldn’t make it any more practical, but should allow for longer, less troublesome operation.

Seriously. The XM is a bloated tank, and one of the ugliest vehicles on the road.

Dude’s trying to pay $175k for a work spec Ram.. Probably making good money working for an oil company and only needs the Ram to haul his new boat that he’s also paying an egregious amount for. Total cost and even monthly payment don’t matter because he’s making more money than he’s ever seen and has no idea how…

Huh.. I wonder how long he could have gotten away with it if he hadn’t been an idiot and had spread it around to a few hundred different locations? No reason..

Why?

Yep. And if tire sound isn’t enough, as long as the heat or A/C are on in my EV it is no more silent than my last ICE vehicle, which was so quiet I had multiple neighbors ask if it was an EV. If you’re going neighborhood speeds, pretty much any modern vehicle is effectively as quiet as an any other, and if you’re at…

Yep. A few years ago, the small AL town I grew up in and my parents still live in did a pretty big project to install/repair sidewalks and make the downtown area more walkable. They dgaf about emissions or public health, they just have the budget because their roads are only having to deal with about 3,000 cars and…

Ok, hear me out! Take the HR-V, make it moderately more powerful, but keep the CVT, and also make it uglier and more expensive! What do you think?

Seriously. Assholes all around.

Yeah, somewhere the numbers are funky. For the payment to work out to $3,840 at 10.85% with 40% down, the purchase price would be $625k with $250k (more than the value of the car) down lol

Yeah, just working in reverse from this. Monthly payment of ~$3,840 at 10.85% APR would indicate a principal of ~$375k. Resulting in the roughly $920k total referenced in the article.

Actually it might be even worse, bc I don’t think the numbers in the article work out. Checking my math with Tom..

Tom, I know you facilitate purchase/leases for a living, so you might be thinking of something I’m not, but would $89k be the correct down payment? That would be 40% assuming a sale price of $222,500, which would make the financed amount only $133,500 at 10.85% for a monthly payment of only $1,364. By my math, the…

To make money on a flip you don’t just have to sell the car for more than MSRP, you have to sell it for more than you bought it for. Based on some quick math, it looks like the principal value on this loan would be about $375k, plus the $89k down and you’re in for $464k. I know there are plenty of idiots with money…

Yeah, I get that. I just meant that the idea that adding relays would get us to his proposed “petabit/second” speeds was bullshit. I probably shouldn’t comment on topics that annoy me if I’m not going to take the time to be coherent. My b.

Yeah, sorry. I should have been more specific. I’m actually an electrical engineer (although emag is not remotely my area of interest/expertise), so I’m familiar signal degradation and SNR. I just meant that the idea that adding relays would get us to his “petabit/second” speed is bullshit. I guess I get pissy and…

Or go one further, and just have bus and train services in the US that don’t suck ass. I understand that expanding our rail infrastructure would be a very expensive long-term investment, but even improving the experience of rail travel on our existing lines could go a long way. And there’s no reason bus travel HAS to…

That seems to be part of the idea. The other part amounts to basically “throw a few signal boosters between here and there”, or, you know.. bullshit.