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I’m guessing this being a Porsche Branded product, that you could rent a vacation home for about a month for the same money.

Damn. Missed that part.

First Gear:

I went with ND for a weird reason.  This is a private seller.  If this had been a dealership, there is a tax credit on used EVs, which this thing qualifies for.   In this case, it would be $4k off this price.   At under $14k, this looks to be a reasonably good deal if your life fits this car.  But without that $4k tax…

That happened to some family friends. Due to poor financial decisions in their 20s, they got trapped into a what basically was a forever lease/payoff of a Journey. They only thing they liked about it was that it had a key that didn’t poke holes in the husband’s pockets like the old POS he had been driving.

Honestly, that price is just enough to make the last life insurance payment you will ever need to make, if Hoffa actually is in the trunk.

The first story in the book the story of a death trap.

Hey, I checked out the Fisker Website and their warranty page has been replaced with this image.

This price seems much too good to be true. The condition looks perfect. This seems like a hell of a catch. It’s rare to see anything under 100k that this would seem to fit.

There was a book that I never finished about the early days of the automotive industry.  It’s shocking how small that world was.   We forget that what we see with stuff like computer software and EVs and the like where it seems like the same names keep popping up over and over and over again isn’t new.   There is a…

There’s an old sci fiction series called the Stainless Steel Rat. One of the later stories was a prequel that showed how this guy became the super-genius thief he was in the rest of the series.

Exactly. Way back when, the Henry Ford Company went bankrupt trying to make an assembly line. During the bankruptcy, an investor came in, bought out the line and paid Henry Ford to go away. Ford spent all that money from the buyout to make an assembly line with Ford Motor Company and it took years before he made…

How is this a hack? I’m American sized. I have a hard time getting a seat belt to fit around my waist.

Every state is different. Where I have been, anything criminal trumps the fault. When I was 9, someone in front of my dad suddenly stopped without any warning. Dad stopped, the guy behind him did not and a major accident occured.

For me that was life changing. I used to watch Nascar all the time. It was a safe series where horrific accidents were cool, not horrific.

I’ve seen that before. I have a 2007 Sienna. Somewhere around 2015, there was a recall about the spare tire carrier, when we took it into the dealer, the dealership said that they noticed it had a cracked dash and that Toyota was replacing them because they had a supplier that didn’t make them right.

Yeah, I simplified. The engines moved the thrust centerline forward and down, which adds a new torsional moment that changes how things work.

With the 737Max, I thought it was and wasn’t a balance issue.

This is literally insane. The US military has done their part for every conflict the US has gotten into since 1812. The only war Americans have lost since 1812 is when half of them lost to the other half.