4th: Did anybody catch this a few weeks ago:

Calling it the Yosemite would be sweet but they would probably get a cease and desist from Rockstar Games.

Patriot. It’s dumb but it’ll play well with the riff-raff. 

I just checked, and every color you get on the Platinum, you can get on an XLT. I get what your saying though. Gotta love that sweet, delicious, bureaucracy.

I assumed this, I was just giving the other guy up there the benefit of the doubt.

Lol, of course they aren’t profiting 90k on it, but that $2K is still more than double 2.2% on the average new car transaction price. It’s the most profit they can ever hope to make on a single vehicle. And I’m not saying they definitely would, but if there was anything on the lot they would do it for...

Yeah, always fun explaining to people who are on salary that its just as normal for hourly people to have their arm twisted into using vacation days for... not vacation.

Would be a fun theory to test out. Just walk into a Ford dealer, tell them I’ll pay the sticker price for a Platinum F-450, but only if I get it in a color that isn’t available on that trim. Logically you would think the dealer wants my $90k bad enough to make enough phone calls to make it happen...

I didn’t mean auto industry specifically, but I see your point. 

Hell yes, this is what I was waiting for.

this is something that has always bothered me when I play with configurators, particularly Ford. Base model F150 comes in like 12 colors. The Platinum comes in like four. If I’m dropping 70K* on this thing you’d better paint it whatever color I god damn choose!

I’m the furthest thing from a grammar nazi, but “testing” as a noun is a trend that needs to die. Not so much the writer’s problem as it is an industry problem. 

At some point, people started using “testing” as a noun because... it sounds smart I guess? This was a usage that really accentuates how silly it is.

I think the whole point is it took a replacement of leadership to fix the problem.  

The sad thing is all of them drove mid 2000's Nissans in high school and its completely poisoned their brains. Now we’re the age of buying cars on our own and I have to spend so much time explaining to them that they’ve gone from being average to total dogshit.

While that weirdo stack isn’t the worst offender in terms of designs that aren’t practical, it does warm my heart to hear a story about how new leadership stepped in, saw a dumb decision that was made in the name of trying to be interesting and “stand out”, and immediately calling a spade a spade and reversed it.

She was naïve about cars but wanted a 4cyl Accord? Bless her. My friends don’t know shit about cars, but they do dumbass shit like buy a used 5 year old Mitsu Outlander Sport that needs 10 seconds of full throttle to merge, or a 3 year old Sentra base model that needs the battery replaced the first winter they own it.

This is pretty harmless, but when I test drove a Tacoma, I asked the salesman what the “ECT Power” button does, and he told me it it was the electronic control of the rear side window.

1st/2nd: Matt Farah nailed it on his podcast recently (#600 if you’re curious): Tesla’s stock price is not tied to their ability to profitably build and sell cars, it is tied to their ability to keep selling the stock. If you buy their stock, you are betting on other people buying it too, not the whole business of…

I think that companies like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, and probably Porsche can get away with still making ICE’s. If we can get the majority of consumer-level commuters and the industrial sector over to EV’s, then then we can afford pumping out a few thousand ICE’s a year without any serious environmental…