1st Gear: “Nissan owns just 15% of Renault and lacks voting rights — has been a pain point for factions of Nissan executives going back years.“ Read more

I got very Lincoln vibes from it for sure. Read more

Bill Murray has always struck me as a totally awesome person to be around when he wants to be a totally awesome person to be around, and a complete and total nightmare when he doesn’t.
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In that condition, the plan might have been worth $20k. You can get a fully sorted Cessna 150 in the 50's. Read more

Alledged direct quote from Tyson: Read more

When you are trapped on a plane, it’s not “talking to someone”. It was clearly continued harassment. Watch the video, it wasn’t just talking, the douche bro deserved it entirely. Read more

Do it. My dad crashes them all the time. His says its fun
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I think you need a slightly crazy CEO at the beginning stages of the companies that he’s helmed. A conservative CEO likely wouldn’t take the risks that he did because they’d be betting their own livelihood on doing that stuff and that’s not an easy thing for most “grounded” people to do. So, those companies need… Read more

And I was thinking the opposite. I hope Mazda is raking in insane amounts of money right now. Because they will need a war-chest to transition into EVs and survive. But if they aren’t raking in insane amounts of money they are in trouble.

Most of this is newsworthy to me. Read more

I have curly hair. I’d never use it. And I try to avoid the sun and outdoors for reasons that will become obvious... Read more

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Air Transat damned near made that happen: Read more

Lives in a Ford van down by the river Read more

Yea, that’s how I remember it. Ford did the smart thing and got loans and such all lined up just in case. Kudos to Ford for not having to use loans to make up for terrible business decisions. I’d have let GM and Chrysler fail and instead allocate that money to the workers being impacted. Read more

I was working at a competitor’s site when that happened and remembered an employee sneering over it. My response was to the effect that if Mulally felt that Ford wasn’t liquid enough, he had to take steps to insure it. The competitor had to file for bankruptcy. Ford did not because of Mulally’s foresight.
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Sounds very sensible.  Read more

Neutral: Read more

That comment wasn’t that clever yesterday. Rewording it today doesn’t help.  Read more

3rd Gear: Audi Chinese bling for China
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