Have you seen one in person? It’s not quite as gaudy as the last generation, but I’ve never seen one “blend in,” even in the dullest colors.

Yeah, clearly an age of sail-style wheel would be unnecessary, and probably more cumbersome than this thing. The wheel just looks unusually small, and since presumably precise course corrections are important, it seems to me that something a little bigger might work better. That said, I’m not a naval engineer, and I…

I would hope that the form of the wheel would follow function in this application. That said, it does seem like it would be easier to make fine course corrections with a somewhat larger wheel.

So they’ve hired Philip Seymour Hoffman in spite of the fact that he’s a year-and-a-half dead from a heroin overdose? Sounds about right.

I’ve tried to make buying a new car make sense to myself twice now in the last three years, and both times I’ve bought used. I could afford the financing payments on a very nice car, but I just can’t justify them to myself when a little due diligence can let me get such great used cars.

If you can get a loan for below inflation, then it becomes an easier case. I’d point out that 0.45% is actually still twenty five basis points (0.25%) above inflation per the BLS, and more than one hundred basis points above inflation per the Billion Prices Index (http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/). If you’re making 22% a year,…

Your depreciation is going to be the same only if you compare buying new to financing new. In the advice given, and for most people, the options are between buying used and financing new. Buying used puts you much further down the depreciation curve, and so you absorb less of the loss.

You also have to factor in depreciation and transaction costs. You’re right in principle, but the difference between your market return and your interest rate is probably going to need to be bigger than you think.

If you can make a better return on your money than the rate on your car note, then financing a car can be a good idea. That has to be net of fees and other transaction costs. This is also assuming that the options are (a) $20k up front or (b) $20k over X years at Y% interest.

I knew if I scrolled down far enough, I would find my people.

Yes? You do realize that year to year profitability is not what is important, right? Investors must, and do, take a longer view, factoring future profitability and growth. That’s how a company like Tesla, or Amazon or, for many years, Google, can lose money year after year and still have cash to spend: people invest…

I think the implication is that, after reviewing all Cameros, the recommendation is still Mustang GT with the Recaro seats and GT Performance Package.

Man, these spambots just keep getting weirder and weirder.

Ugh, “higher than many, in fact”. I wish there was an edit button.

I’m not sure that level of granularity is publicly available. 20% is pretty much in line with other luxury car manufacturers—hire than many, in fact—so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a pretty accurate measure of margin in a meaningful sense of that word.

You realize you’re largely complaining about things being better engineered from the factory, right? Not leaving a lot of room for easy fixes also means that the manufacturer didn’t make a lot of sloppy decisions that could easily and cheaply have been done before foisting a car on the public.

This is correct. Tesla realizes margins of approximately 20% on each car; the loss per car figure is a result of intense investment, which is precisely the kind of behavior one hopes for from a company in Tesla’s position and lifecycle stage.

$2 grand, tops. $8,500? Total CP.

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Unless the Porsche is figuratively digging its ethos out of a grave, the word you are looking for is “exudes.”