Person 1: “but the car only has 7k miles and is a dealer demo”

I get that telling people not to buy cars is a lot like telling people not to buy gas, but at the same time, in a time when supply is low and prices are high, it’s never been a better time than to just stick it out in whatever 4-wheeled thing you can.

Ran into the same BS recently. Found a used vehicle at Schumacher in FL at a fair, for current market, price. Was ready to leave a deposit when the true total showed over $2k in dealer junk fees. I walked away as I would advise most people to do.

Couldn’t Tesla have bought up one of the many European car factories that closed recently? For example, the old Ford factory in Genk, Belgium.

What the fuck is a Chevy Orlando?

Not sure how bailouts are related to the problem at hand. I definitely have some serious issues with the bailouts and how they were handled, but this is not that. The flight crew shortage was a pre-pandemic issue, which no doubt was exacerbated by the pandemic, but pilots especially were in high demand, and the talent…

None of this seems “normal,”

Second gear: That’s not a vote of no confidence, that’s a vote of asset diversification and cashing in big time.
For all we know, the guy left because realized “to hell with it, I’m worth hundreds of millions of dollars, my boss is a tool, and don’t need to work for him to live like a king forever”
which is exactly the…

An executive leaving a company would likely want to diversify his investments. Maybe he does think Tesla stock will take a hit, but it would be a bad idea to leave his money all in one stock either way.

So you can get a Maverick and a Zero for the same price?

$10k is barely affordable. 20K is “inexpensive.” 30K is “reasonable.” 40K is “entry level base luxury”. Everything above that is luxury at different levels.

In the case of R34, would you really go for a color that is rare and worth more but on the back of your mind you don’t actually like?

Well if I wait till I’m done paying off the mortgage then I should be good.

Any test is passable if you only have to cram once and be done with it. Regular retesting is far more effective. Take all those overconfident drivers who are better than everyone else (raises guilty hand) and have them re certify every ten years to refresh their skills and learn what has changed in the rules since…

Put that drivetrain in a CR-V and they’d have a winner. 

While this may end up being a dressed up Mach-E, since the F150 BEV uses the same cab and bed as a gas truck, the Expedition/Navigator body should also drop right on the BEV truck frame, right? They could have a Navigator BEV with very little effort and charge a fortune for them.

I think it’s the safest redesign since the 7th gen. And it’s not a bad thing.

There are a few limited instances where it makes sense to take a private jet. When I was consulting for Wal-Mart, their EVP’s would typically fly in and out the same day on a private jet. (Wal-Mart owns a fleet of private jets, just for their executives to do same day travel.)

Brent Peltomaa valued that cat more than he valued his life.
Michael Campbell valued punishing a thief more than he valued his freedom.
They were all in love with dying. They were drinking from a fountain
that was pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain.

Oregon has a bill being considered that would only allow scrap dealers to buy catalytic converters from licensed businesses and require them to provide the VIN from the car it came from.