“I’m waiting for the Doofus in Chief to realize that if he holds on for a second term, he’ll be doing literally nothing but trying to rescue the American economy profit from the pain and suffering this pandemic has caused.*”

It would be, if it wasn’t for the fact that nearly 20% of the Fortune 500 paid no taxes in 2018. Those numbers are up 50% from the year before. And I imagine there will be an even bigger boost when it becomes tax time in the middle of this year.

I love watching how the FRB and US government have been using the financial crisis playbook for a health crisis. This will play out well. We will never recover to “normal” from this. This is going to change a lot of people’s habits permanently.

Keep in mind those numbers are low.  Most states systems crashed due to overload last week.

That is, for those wonder, one fucking percent of the entire US population filing an unemployment claim. The GOP is living is a goddamn fantasy world on getting things “back to normal.” 

lol these April timelines are a joke. The US hasn’t even hit peak, not even close. The US was slow to react and slow to get it managed properly, and some states still have their head buried in the sand  

If we were to tomorrow start following the South Korean model of test-and-quarantine, rinse-and-repeat, we’re looking at resuming something resembling post-COVID-19 economy by Summer.

You just nailed that on the head right there. I have had quite a few discussions with my wife around the very same thing. How do things go back to normal still knowing that this thing is out there and could strike at any moment.

It actually seems like it might be easier to seal this design than a Wankel. It looks like the contact area between the rotor and the combustion chamber is potentially a lot larger, and there aren’t really any apexes being constantly dragged across the wall of the combustion chamber. On the other hand, it also looks…

I was on a ship that had a Number 1 head, not because it was the 1st head forward, no it was labeled as such because number 2 would clog it :(

Citroen SM

AutoNation sucks. They make no haggling seem like a good thing.

Toyota sells an AWD minivan. It’s not exciting, but will meet most of his needs.

100% THIS!

Fuck Autonation, they tried multiple times to cheat me. And their service department is garbage too. I don’t care about the rest of my warranty, I hope they go under.

I hope you’re right but unfortunately dealers don’t have a “couple million in inventory”. The stock units are still the property of the floorplan financier ie. the bank. If a dealer stops making floorplan payments the same thing happens if you stop making car payments... they get repo’d. This was going to be a bad…

What business is strong enough to survive 3+ months with no customers? 6 months? 18 months?

No, we’re into the era of Republican socialism now. You’ll be assigned a model based on which automaker promises Mitch McConnell it will build the most new factories in Kentucky.

Highlander Hybrid... 29mpg combined, 3500 lb towing capacity, even NEW the base trim is under 40k, upper trims are just over. CPO are probably well under the budget. 

Pacifica plug in hybrid.. Buy some winter tires, call it good.