I think that’s absolutely the right business model, but since you can count on customers having to wait around for a while for their cars to charge you could class it up a bit, which would allow for even better margins and more profit on whatever it is you’re selling. Most private gas stations along the interstate are…

That’s the problem: there isn’t. Whereas drivers of ICE cars are forced to buy gas from a gas station at a markup, most EV drivers will mostly be charging their cars at home for commuting and running errands. The only time you’re going to be able to charge EV drivers more than what the electric company charges them…

I guess you’ve never heard of ROI.

Lookout everyone! Looks like it’s Keynes’ second coming in here talking about ROI, something that us peons could never understand.

And both kinda look like an angry person with extremely small eyes, although even more disproportional on the Mustang.

I agree to the extent that exterior styling has gotten way too “busy” across the board, to the point that it makes a car blend in more than stand out. It’s like half the new cars out there are the love child of a spaceship and an electric razor or something: overstyled for the sake of overstyling. There will be a…

Agreed. I think from a purely top-down, cold-blooded economic perspective, the former equals the latter: you’re “value” is precisely the amount of pay that keeps you, or a reasonably available replacement, on the job. “Value” standing alone is really difficult to determine.

This is ~75% of the current crop of German and Italian performance cars, but it doesn’t make them any less desirable to me (depending on how heinous they are, but that’s subjective). 

There’s an entire military branch/federal agency largely dedicated to keeping beat-to-shit equipment running for three to four times its intended lifespan with no money while still carrying out its mission: the U.S. Coast Guard.

This is the kind of thing that makes me ask myself “why do I submit to sitting behind a desk all day?” before quickly realizing I didn’t used to, I later chose to, and I don’t have the balls to do anything else.

I feel like this can be extended far beyond cars: 99% of people only want stuff that is shiny and new, even if the shiny new-ness is completely superficial. The same 99% of people make no effort to understand how stuff actually works or if it has value manifested in some other way. Case in point: “old” cars that…

Haha, well obviously. “The Reassembler” comes pretty close, and is, therefore, excellent.

I have repeatedly seen the term “judicial system” being misused in this context. If you’re talking about the CBP acting on the order despite being enjoined by federal judges in multiple judicial districts, know that CBP is an executive branch enforcement agency.

I also agree with the “forcibly epic” sentiment, it puts into words the feeling I had watching the GTI v. i3 segment in the latest episode: simple yet interesting cars in a somewhat practical challenge, with Clarkson and May exchanging jabs along the way. It’s a simple formula that works very well and doesn’t feel…

Sure, because doctors, accountants, engineers, lawyers (some of whom have an art history degree), scientists, financiers, executives, your congressman, senator, etc., etc., definitely haven’t been to college, and no one wants to be those anyway.

I know your intentions are good, but this is the stereotypical response to the “NYC is expensive” post.

That’s a great question. I have no idea how state/local taxes play into basis, and the “appreciating car” hypo you propose is a great example. It would be interesting to speculate, but there’s an answer buried in the tax code or a tax court case out there, and I don’t know where it is.

“The general problem with people’s perception is they pay far more attention to cyclists people doing things incorrectly, than to ones who do things correctly.”

I was going to lay into you until you said this. I’m a long-time cyclist myself, but I despise urban hipster cyclists with a passion because they talk about how evil and threatening cars are, then ride like they want to die.

That’s because 99.9% of the time, a private vehicle sale will result in a loss to the seller (the sale price is below the seller’s cost basis). If the vehicle is for personal use, the loss cannot be deducted. In the off-chance that a vehicle has appreciated and is sold for more than the seller’s cost basis, the gain…