The bottom? If there’s no other choice, I’m walking.

This goes way beyond shipping costs. This whole thing has opened up the eyes of companies to the consequences of adopting lean without mitigating against the bullwhip effect. This is what I’m always on about utilization rates. High utilization = high efficiency, but also extremely low disruption tolerance. Your…

The difference between 197 inches and 185 is huge. They aren’t roughly the same size - they are in different classes.

Elon Erik’s energy is very much that of someone who enjoys sending emails posting articles to all of his employees us readers, which is just to say that his real skills aren’t doing anything in particular or making any kind of product or even dreaming up big ideas, but talking and hyping.

Hey look! Another Tesla hate post!

I love cars. I love all cars. I love my gas cars. I’m all for this ban and look forward to other states following this pattern because I love my kids more than I love my cars. Seeing the affects of climate change over nearly 50 years of life makes we worry about the world that my kids will live in when they have been…

Excuse me, sir, please read the headline:

Because that ignore the fundamental way that people buy cars.

When purchasing a vehicle, a major consideration isn’t about what someone will do, but about what they COULD do, and about how they want to look (not) doing it.

You think that a 4500lb Camry with 30 more horsepower will be faster than a 2800lb YarisGR?

I don’t know about your dealers, but every Subaru dealer I’ve been to has managed to break something on the car (we’ve had three Subarus).

Tesla also infamously refuses to give any 3rd parties access to diagnostic tools or their parts network. So if you need warranty work on your brand new 3, you could literally be stuck waiting months for your car to get shipped hundreds or thousands of miles, repaired, and shipped back.

I remember car shopping with my wife just after we got married. First dealership we walked into, we walked out of within 1 minute. Pro-tip, never call a woman with a Northern accent “a little lady”. Especially when the full quote is “Look this little lady doesn’t know what she wants...”  Literally seconds after she…

involves cutting a giant hole in the hull.

To the Plaid, women don’t exist. If you ever have to be a a Salesman, go to the woman first.  Treat her with respect, assume she knows what she wants and knows what she needs and knows what the budget is.  Because she likely does.   A salesman that respects women and treats them as human beings will make well over…

I hope the first question is, “WHO GIVES A FUCK?”

So, this is some German shell game shit here.

Weird, I’ve been getting phone calls in the middle of the night every night for weeks. Every time I pick up, all I hear is heavy breathing and “I know who you are, and I know which of your O2 sensors is bad.”

“Their current stock price means they should be making more cars revenue, gross profit and net profit than GM, and still have growth that people believe will go unchallenged for the next decade.”

To me, this reeks of a pyramid scheme. With the capital Telsa has, they can become a very big car company quickly. But bigger than VW, GM, or Ford (in manufacturing capacity)? I don’t see it.

A National Treasure!