Since this is America, the car company will get sued by both the victims and the driver, have to pay millions in fines, issue a recall for millions of vehicles, and develop a new type of glass that doesn’t glare in the sun.

They’re awesome, I think people judge them as “rural” or “not refined” without ever trying it. It’s a ton of fun.

Yep, that’s very true.

The long, drawn out, ridiculous media cycle for this thing really highlights how awesome Ford is at this stuff.

My main problem with Koenigsegg is that other companies are completely capable of making the stuff they make, it just won’t pass any real OEM’s durability requirements, not to mention being manufacturable at a rate of more than 3 a year.

Not from what I’ve seen first hand.

If you’re in Vegas, and you’re lower level personnel, you’re spending all of Monday tearing stuff down and preparing it to be shipped to Abu Dhabi. Maybe Tuesday as well, it’s A TON of equipment. You need to be in Abu Dhabi, at the absolute latest, by Thursday morning to set up all the equipment so it’s ready for…

Even if you don’t get ALL of it back, it’s simply wild you can sell them very consistently for more than MSRP 3 years later. While GT3s aren’t made in huge numbers, it’s not like this is some super special limited run vehicle either.

I highly, HIGHLY doubt all the personnel do. The drivers might, but between setup and teardown there’s no time to go back, not to mention shipping all the equipment everywhere.

Seems like scheduling the races in a more intelligent way would help too.

911 GT3s are wild. Buy it, drive it for 2-3 years, sell for a profit on BAT. In reality it’s the cheapest performance car to own.

If large banks start to fail due to their recklessness in the bond market it will certainly affect the average person. They’re using the same excuses that they used during the mortgage crisis, “BUT IT’S BONDS, IT’S SAFE TO HILARIOUSLY OVER LEVERAGE!”.

Exactly. Detroit metro used to have a good income/cost of living ratio due to the engineering jobs in the auto industry, now it’s $450k for a three bedroom ranch fixer-upper with no basement. $2k/mo for apartments.

I think the “next year we start to lower them” attitude is a core part of the problem. We’ve become so spoiled, so dependent on easy money that we can’t survive as an economy without historically low rates. A 7% mortgage or car loan rate is, historically, pretty good. In the 90s you’d have done very well to get a 7%…

All of what you’re saying makes me even more skeptical. If people have more debt but are making small service payments, what happens long term?

Lol’d at this, mostly out of grim knowing.

Same, we re-fi’d and our payment is so low, with such a low interest rate, I can literally never move. We bought in 2019.

It’s insane. As you pointed out, $100k/yr is doing “okay”....what’s crazier is it’s just okay in places like Detroit and Charlotte, forget SoCal NYC or Chicago.

I’m not sure how long the market expects to go on like this.

Also, I shouldn't really need to say it, but you'd obviously go nuclear if you were serious about changing things.