Tesla was never going to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa was just a pawn to get more incentives from Austin.

Way less than they did for Samsung (which got a $83.6 million break over 13 years).

Last week, Travis County commissioners voted to approve tax breaks for Tesla valued at a minimum of about $14 million over 10 years if the company invests $1.1 billion in the factory. The amount of the tax breaks will grow substantially if Tesla invests more over the 20-year life of the agreement.

Unless they legalize direct sales in Texas, not far enough!

Yeah, I don’t get the people whining about the emissions credits: It’s a real source of revenue. When planning their spending, Tesla would know the emissions credits revenue was coming.

Tracing Point

One of the commentaries I heard over the weekend (maybe Ted’s Notebook?) was that this weekend’s protest was a technicality. If no one protested and Racing Point were later found to be in breach, their results for the Hungarian Gran Prix would stand because no one protested them.

I suspect fat salaries and irresponsible spending has played a part. They should start up a lower price point brand/line to go after people with FRS, GTi, MX5, etc than don’t want $5k rims on a $25k car. And find an OEM to supply rims for the top performance trim.

I’ve found lately that a lot of the time when companies go bankrupt it’s not because there’s anything wrong with their business model, but because there’s a bunch of corporate shenanigans going on behind the scenes that mean no matter what they do they’re screwed.

As long as people keep buying them at $2,000 a corner, they’ll keep selling them at $2,000 a corner.

They need to stop pricing their wheels at almost two grand per axle. And also start selling to heavy machinery industries. Imagine a forklift with some BBS CH-Rs. Negotiating some deals with manufacturers to sell their wheels on higher trim levels like they did in the ‘80s and ‘90s would also be helpful.

“Red truck good, blue truck bad. Vote red truck.” 

What dumbfuckery are we witnessing too now? I'm going to drink some chloroform and sleep for the next decade. Wake me up when we have a President named Scooter.

Looks like they’re appealing to his base of mouthbreathers in a way only they can understand: “Ooh, big trucks!”

My uncle loved to whittle. I remember one summer he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first boat except it had no paint and bumpy whittle marks on it.

Everyone worrying, and rightfully so about structural integrity. Provided they actually hold up (they won't), the balance would be horrifying.

Man, can you imagine how awful that thing sounds at highway speed?

For the amount of time and effort spent creating these deathtraps, you’d be better served just working at McDonalds long enough to afford a set of real BBS wheels.

This is Garage 54. Just because you shouldn’t do something, they absolutely will.