The end of cool small cars. The Taliban has fresher trucks than we do. (via Kottke)
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Ok, *NOW* it's Friday. Happy Friday, all.
ReplyDeleteFerris Bueller's Day Off was about 1h43m too long.
ReplyDeleteLong somewhat emotional article on cool cars. Let's neatly summarize it:
ReplyDelete1. The B.S. "Chicken Tax" is definitely one reason there are no small trucks here. The vehicle part of the tax is a 25% tariff originally targeted against one (1) vehicle manufactured by Volkswagen. Concession to the UAW. You can get around it by manufacturing vehicles in the U.S., but that's a pretty expensive undertaking. So now light trucks are out of the way.
2. There is no profit in small vehicles. They were pretty much sold at cost. There is extreme profit in large vehicles, $5-$10K or more. Manufacturers used to use those profits to make/subsidize the cost of small vehicles.
Those profits now go to subsidize the manufacturing of electric vehicles. Those +/- $40K cars that the government also subsidizes for rich people to buy. How's that working out for you?
Bleah. But Happy Friday Miss C!
Happy Friday, gwdMaine, and everyone!
ReplyDeleteWell that is an alarming use of AI that I had not considered ... non-fiction reference type books. Honestly, I wouldn't eat any mushroom identified only by a book.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous wrote:
ReplyDelete"Honestly, I wouldn't eat any mushroom identified only by a book."
Well, that leaves only learning about 'shrooms from a trained mycologist, or by trial and error. And if you go the second route, remember this ain't baseball and you don't get three strikes before you're 'OUT'.
-"BB"-
Cool small cars ?
ReplyDeleteThe colloquial adjectives, et al, are as a foreign language to me.
What does 'kill mad people', 'that is wack', 'can't cop dope small pick ups', 'superior whip game' and 'huge props' even mean ?
I couldn't read further as my eyes started bleeding from disgust.