Limited production, only 99 made/sold.  It only takes a 100th person with a bunch of money to want one, and be willing to pay double the MSRP to get one.

Pro tip: You’re better off with multiple smaller memory cards than one huge one for GoPros and Photography unless you REALLY need a continuous recording. If you go away for a weekend or day of something, and save everything on the one card, you lose everything if/when it gets corrupted.

Pro tip: You’re better off with multiple smaller memory cards than one huge one for GoPros and Photography unless…

“for a blast fragmentation warhead, which kills the old fashioned way with a high explosive blast and shrapnel, which kills people with concussive blast and flying metal fragments.”

Don’t think they get a commission here on those, so I doubt we’ll see much on them!  I have been looking at some of the Allbirds though, they seem nice!

Don’t think they get a commission here on those, so I doubt we’ll see much on them!  I have been looking at some of…

This pulls at my heart strings and makes me miss the Jeep community! WRX community still does the wave, but it’s not the same...

I would go with a J100 (1998-2007) Toyota Land Cruiser or the Lexus equivalent.

“Had the Hummer brand lived, it’s not hard to imagine it today as sort of American Land Rover. That is, Hummers would have a modicum of luxury features, and they’d be nearly invincible off-road. Hummer would probably have a few crossovers, too. And they would be hugely profitable.”

Hilariously enough, some of them are flipping off H3s not H2s!

This kind of sounds like picking up the original S Tronic from the Audi R8 that people complained about for being difficult/jerky in traffic, and sticking it in Grandma’s car without telling her.

I would say that most of the luxury brands have them nailed down - Mercedes comes to mind.  The point of the transmission in the S-Class is to forget that it’s there.

I agree with you that the Dunkin scenario isn’t a direct match, but I was using that point just to illustrate that people that use the Uber app for transportation are not necessarily the direct customers of Uber corporate, but could easily be viewed as customers of the driver, since the driver ultimately is the one…

Dunkin provides a framework, marketing, R&D, and other non-paycheck value-add services to franchisees.

No, because Uber doesn’t care about driver density in an area. Imagine 50 people buy hot dog carts to sell Nathan’s hot dogs around a city. Nathan’s doesn’t care that there are 50 carts, just that they are making $0.50 per hot dog sold and that it is as easy / fast as possible for people to buy one.

I generally agree with you, except for the last part.  If Uber/Lyft continue increasing fares, then ridership will drop off in favor of a lower cost option.  Uber/Lyft are already commodities / interchangeable around me, and I find Lyft to have lower pricing / less surge.  If they manage to surpass the price of a…

100% agreed. Many companies with franchises operate this way as well.

This article is twisted, and belongs on Splinter not Jalopnik. Look at how many major fast food corporations are structured - let’s use Dunkin Donuts as an example:

That, and think that they will defy physics and hop 1-3 inch curbs / carve corners on essentially an electric Razor scooter.

HAHA I was going to NP because I misread as $17k.  Wow, $17k for a 2 year old ugly Evoque that I could only drive with the top down because it’s the only time that it’s even remotely decent.  Then I saw $53k and died.

At least the price is still stuck back in 2009 as well...

Agreed!  Top is basically a car cover for the interior on a car like this.