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I think Apple would have run Tesla better than Elon has.

Ooopps...

The talking order clown at Burger World's drive-thru is a better CEO than Musk.

Nah, just the general exclamation. Sometimes spelled 'gak' or 'gakk'.

Toyota lost their longevity advantage long ago. Now they’re on the same plane as everyone else, they just have to issue 1000% more recalls to simulate such.

Hold out- it’s far from its bottom yet...

Those 90s 300ZXs looked great, IMO....my sister's last Z was a silver '90 300ZX t-top. Her 4th going back to a '77 280Z.

Wouldnt that be "ACK ACK"??? LOL

JDM 1990s Nissan 300ZX. Non-turbo and no T-Top. Bummer for the no T-Top... Right in back of it was a newer 350Z. Maybe a 2018 model. What a contrast between the two. Id rather the older 300ZX than the newer 350Z.

Well there is many floors of a hotel in there. Plus restaurants, conference centers... It's a bit like a mall on the first few floors. Very confusing to find your way around though.

DeMauro is a blackened, moldy jack o lantern rotting on the front porch in the burgeoning spring warmth of May. In other words; unappealing & worthless. Tesla is getting plenty of blowback for quality that's -at times- worse than anything GM or Ford ever produced. At least, I've never seen any report of a GM car with a cracking/splitting body structure (A-pillar). The bloom is mostly off the rose and sales have tanked HARD.

I think the takeover appeal of Tesla goes up if they can elbow Elon out of the driver seat. Tesla has very good brand equity.

Bonus today, walking to the bus to head home and all 3 vendors were in close proximity to each other. so gla and glc plus x3 yet all.small autos.

Tesla's market cap right now is $34B. Apple has that in change between their couch cushions and still has enough money to buy Ford too. Tesla and Elon are in a much more precarious position than I think they know.

Hasnt failed...yet... And besides...what constitutes failure nowadays, anyway? 1. Amazon has lost billions in the first 10 years(give or take 2-3 years) of its existance before it became the unstoppable (for now) force that it is. 2. Uber and Lyft are currently losing billions as I type this and for the last 2-3-4-5 years. Do you consider Uber and Lyft as failures...I do...but I dont see you bitchin' about them. I bitch about them. You dont. Irony is that, Uber and Lyft and Tesla, seem to fit in the same category as it seems enough people gravitate towards them for investors to continue to have faith in them to poor billions into them and it seems like Tesla, Uber and Lyft are now part of our modern landscape, yet...we bitch about Tesla being a failure...not Uber and Lyft, yet Uber and Lyft...REALLY have NOTHING concrete to offer us...they just manage an app on Android and Apple....but Tesla, you know....actually builds cars...real cars...not vapour ware...unlike...you know...Uber and Lyft... 3. Ford, Chrysler and GM lost billions. GM and Chrysler DID go bankrupt. Got bailed. Ford ALMOST went bankrupt. And its still paying the price for it because they did NOT go bankrupt...unlike GM... 4. Tesla cars, although Tesla the company is losing money and not generated profits, like just only 2-3 maybe 4 (and that is stretching it) quarters in their existence, Tesla cars are quite desirable all over the world. And Tesla has sold quite a few of them and continue to do so. I could go on...but I dont think any of you folk want to continue to read my rants...

@A Horse With No Name Not so sure Apple is that smart, they seemed to have missed the streaming thing, Apple products have not been innovative, Samsung has passed them up. Tim Cook seems to be more on status quo and just keep things consistent than innovating. I suspect Apple will fall back down to where they were in the early 2000's.

We don't have anything but Zipcar here. They have a wide variety of cars, crossovers, and even trucks (Tacoma or Frontier)

It's still a bad buy at the price of a Whopper....and my good friend Dustin Got food poisoning the last time we ate at burger king. Cost him $350 in an ER visit....which is far cheaper than the utter financial bath Tesla investors are going to take. More sane at least... ...or retreat to a private island and watch porn. That way he can mentally escape how badly his car company failed. They are far too smart for that... Even he is not dumb enough to loose that much money. In five years, Tesla stock will be equal to pre bankruptcy GM stock in value. I don't pity them in the least, the writing was on the wall when they bought them. Ford can go away also IMHO....

And...repairs NEED to be made. Why? 1. cars on the road, by law, have to be safe. Have to be road worthy. If a car accident happens and especially death occcurs, if the investigation reveals that the car was not road worthy, especially if its a car that is used as a revenue generated car, then criminal charges WILL be applied to owner of car. 2. Its good for business to have a car that looks good, Same like any other service oriented business. Will you ever walk into a dilapidated restaurant, that reeks of shyte, to eat? yeah, I didnt think so...so why would this endeavor be any different? Ive done several costly renovations to my restaurant over the years. Decades. But in this case, costly renovations to the car, if not taken car of properly, need to be made almost on a weekly or monthly basis. OK...yearly. But like I said, wear and tear and stuff like that is expensive. Almost as expensive as renovating a restaurant... But my restaurant generates a lot of revenue. And my asset, the building, is an APPRECIATING asset...

I saw Maven as a Zipcar or Car2Go alternative, but they never got it to critical mass. I don't see Maven as long for this world.

It's a hypothetical question. I'm going to be doing these a bit more often to spur some conversation around here.

^ That first grey Pontiac is indeed a GP, 1963. Gorgeous design, and a trend-setter. - - - - - Friend of mine's '55, runs a 502CI :

With a global recession on the way, they might want to cut more than a “few”...

Still rumors of that around here this year as well. Though they would have no clue where to move....

@ocnblu Love those Pontiacs I see in your post from the car show at Ocean City, MD. I'm guessing the first one is a GP (don't know which year) and the second one is a 1977 Can Am variant off the LeMans (so many engine offerings in all lines of that car in '76/'77 - I think one 6 cylinder and about four V8s). Must be nice to live somewhere where going to the beach (MD, DE) can be done as one long day trip.

Tesla stock doing the limbo. How low can it go before it falls on its butt.