We’ve all seen MUCH worse. This is well-integrated, and most importantly properly engineered. At least we don’t have to worry about a wheel spacer, or spindle or some shit failing and hurtling the vehicle and/or the part down the street uncontrolled, because the Liftkit-Bro overstressed a component with his 40"…

No one talks much about the deal the bastards in the Legislature came up with. Basically, they didn’t change how Reedy Creek worked. The district still pays on their $1B in bonds because bond rating houses threatened to downgrade all Florida bonds if the state shifted the burden to taxpayers in Orange and Osceola…

I’m a Florida resident and you’re right. There are nearly 2,000 special districts in the state, covering everything from economic development to flood control to healthcare, and virtually everything in between.

Yes. Disney wanted to avoid the derelict county planning, zoning and regulatory schemes (since at the time in Osceola and Orange Counties were rural) and avoid what was apparently poor state management of those processes and so forth. They self-taxed and did, as you say, build modern infrastructure where there was…

Exactly this. Disney assiduously followed Florida’s Sunshine laws and they publicized the meeting where the document was voted on and approved well in advance in the paper of record.

I’m not so sure this happened because DC doesn’t care or want to solve the issue or scofflaws being a danger. I’m sure they’d love to be more diligent in enforcement. It’s likely a matter of priority. If your budget is strained as DC’s is, you will not prioritize vehicle impound for unpaid camera violations (and there’…

Ahhhhh the ‘96-and after Blazer ZR2....this was my automotive fantasy for a seriously long time. God bless those GM engineers of that era.

True, except egomaniacs that run American businesses have built large phallic replacements as a sign of their power and prestige, that they now want filled again with unwilling workers — who, I might add, were generally far more productive working at home in their skivvies than huddled up in these monuments to…

The dealer model is broken so get rid of it. They assert that manufacturers will act as monopolists. That’s not true nor is it proven. What we see IRL is dealers acting in a very cartel-like manner, with real, current harms to consumers.

2nd Gear — Exactly. Dealers are rent-seeking and as we should all know, rent-seeking behavior always disadvantages one party to a transaction, in this case, consumers.

I hate this just slightly less than I love it.

Have your star, sir.

So, what you’re saying is, we’ll now have more ecologically sound asses doing silly things on the roads with their modded Challenger and Charger EVs?

And thankfully the government (cue the funny looks from a certain segment of society) and Deere have agreed that Deere was wrong.

How did a police officer charged with shooting at another unprovoked NOT get charged with ADW and jailed??

It’s not savings at a 2% rate. Why would, in a deflationary environment, savings i remain at 2% or better? You’d be right if rates didn’t fall to try to stimulate growth, but since they do, consumers are actually discounting money. In a deflationary environment, buyers and producers put off purchases and investment…

The hilarity of the situation is that by trying to bring legitimacy to the hard-righters (and trying to make it “cool” to be so on Twitter), he’s alienating the group that was most likely to both buy his products AND buy (and believe in) the equity issue of his company.

Doesn’t the SEC have rules about false material statements? I would think investors would take his boast to heart...

I’d still avoid Hertz like I would a pack of hyenas.

Most would consider the boards of publicly held entities derelict (violating their fiduciary responsibilities) and then most likely sue in a shareholder action if they didn’t remove someone as disruptive a CEO as Musk.

The last gen Cadillac CTS has (in the trims with Xenon HIDs) adaptive lighting that follows the steering wheel AND pitch of the front end. I used to enjoy watching my headlights move at speed with steering inputs.