something about america being a rotting corpse with "conservatives" rooting for the corpse and "progressives" rooting for the maggots. i saw the McKinsey news yesterday and my first thought was "only $4M? NYC must have haggled hard!" the maggots are hard at work, but hey, they are eating, and in a eat or be eaten world... i just don't think i can blame them. life is tough but it's easier when you are rich.
also, i regret to inform mike that he is anywhere from 10-20% over market rate on that FiST in a market that is growing ever more flaccid with an orphan model of an orphan line of an increasingly difficult to defend brand. methinks it sells at 19k.
i'm with you, but in a nation ruled by scam and grift, i have to admit its a pretty goddamn good scam and grift. and then when you are done scamming and grifting there, you can scam and grift your way down the consultancy ladder until you retire.
and it just struck me that this is an extension of the "Credentialism" scam we discussed earlier this week. trust me bro, i am a wharton MBA and i work at McKinsey. nevermind the historically bad advice we have given in the past!! dont look at that!!
the irony is, if you do nothing but consult for a lifetime, you actually will likely become a pretty good consultant (for whatever that is worth), but the knowledge will be acquired through a sort of cargo cult labyrinth of interpreting other people's successes or failures through the lens of the advice you give them versus operational experience. source: trust me bro
that takes a level of introspection and unemotional analysis that most people lack. so combine the two and thats probably the elite coaches of the world.
Funny thing you mention this ~ I was trying to have a conversation with my elder brother about this Tuesday and he just began berating me because my simple crappy life is better (IMO) than his as viewed by who's happy, me the crippled Blue Collar H.S. dropout or him the semi famous Hollywood divorce lawyer who's having trouble making ends meet.....
Jorge Martin puts in a banger of a sprint and picks up five points on Bagnaiai to shore up his championship points lead. Trackhouse Racing earns their first podium with Miguel Oliviera in second, and Bagnaia finishes third. I love the no-holds barred sprint format with regard to tire wear and strategy as well as the feed into strategy and set up for the full length race. Marc Marquez had a heroic showing after a high side that left him badly bruised and with a broken finger where he went 13th to 6th.
In the race Martin again had a commanding lead and was managing the gap to Bagnaia well until he pushed a little too hard on the penultimate lap and lost the front for a DNF. Bagnaia cruised to victory with a healthy lead over the second and third place Marquez brothers with Marc in second place! Marquez' performance and Martin's crash keep Marquez' championship hopes alive as Bagnaia takes the lead by 10 points with only a fifty point spread between first and third. Any more DNFs from the top two put 93 in good position if he can keep chipping away.
I've gone back and watched 2/3rds of Moto2 and it's been competitive without a rider clearly dominating the field which is enjoyable to watch. The constant reference to Pirelli rubber by the commentary is a bit nerve grating.
As for classifieds I know someone in real life who, due to surgery for cancer, is selling his Steve McQueen Bonneville T100 with 7k on the clock. You can contact me for details at silentsod at the Google mail if interested. I think he's asking on the high end.
Martin knows this is his best short term chance to win the championship. Is the pressure getting to him? He has the same bike as Pecco, and MMarquez has last year’s Duc. Next year Martin will be on the second best bike (Aprilia) and Pecco/MM will be on the same equipment. (His hope next year is those two take enough points away from each other to allow him to prevail.)
“more diversity in both boards and executive teams, in both gender and ethnicity, is robustly correlated with higher social and environmental impact scores“
I imagine the definition of a “social impact score” itself includes some measure of DEI, making this a nice closed loop of patting oneself on the back.
Similar to Jack's own views...I've never been a real fan of Lewis Hamilton, but I will admit that I don't mind seeing him win as an underdog. That was a career day for him winning the British GP this year and, it honestly could be his last victory ever (particularly once his fate is sealed by going to Ferrari). Try as I might, I have nothing but respect and admiration for SLH for what he and Mercedes accomplished last weekend. Truly spectacular stuff.
I cannot be the only one who predicts that the Hamilton-Ferrari combination won't end well, but it is what it is. At the end of the day every Formula One fan is a Ferrari fan, or so the saying goes.
I agree that it was great to root for Lewis as the underdog, and to throw another constructor into the mix at the front of the grid. It was one hell of a race, and Lewis and Mercedes deserve respect for the accomplishment.
I was on the edge of my seat for almost the entirety of his maiden win in Montreal. David Hobbs repeating "keep it on the island" was literal that time!
Hamilton is lucky, but he did create his own luck to a degree. Can't fault him for that. This season is more fun since 3-4 manufacturers are all in play depending on the specifics of the track and the conditions.
Mike's car is EXPENSIVE for a rare but clean toy. GLWS.
Mckinsey and Boston Consulting Group are good for only one thing: Charging tens of millions to 'study' and provide conclusions that amount to: "It'd be mighty nice if you didn't have to run payroll for so many people!!!" TO HELL with these parasites and the C-suite dipshits that spend stockholder money on them.
The ONLY Volvo that is WORTH buying is the V90. The rest are all trash. I have my concerns about a chinese sourced 'super-turbo-hybrid' AWD powertrain... but the inside and out looks mighty nice!
McLaren may have screwed up both their driver's strategies and lost an easy 1-2 at home, but at least they made that decision from a building designed by an architect who Sherman dreams of blowing.
Yuki may not get any action from Red Bull but he's getting some in your dreams Jack.
P.S. (I'm actually impressed and a fan as an engineer of how much Mclaren, the race team manages with fewer resources compared to the big OEM teams, they're easily the best 'independent' team in F1 and have been for a while).
Unfortunately I’m out of a job right now, but I can say, the amount of people that want “management consultants” for roles is astounding. I know I screwed up by not going into IB post college, but damn. I have never met a consultant I liked
"Yuki may not get any action from Red Bull but he's getting some in your dreams Jack."
Back in the day I absolutely would have split some chick with Yuki. Give me a chance to be what Rodney calls "the anchor" in... okay, I'm just gonna turn the Internet off for a while.
The year will be 2044. A decrepit septuagenarian Jack will be living off social security, his side job, and the 83 remaining subscribers at ACF and we're still gonna make fun of Sherman about that architect.
He is probably the best at sponsorship. Look at all the decals on his cars and his background.
He has Coca-Cola, when Ferrari should obviously have that brand; would be a good long-term replacement for Marlboro / Mission Winnow / Philip Morris.
Coca-Cola brought him Jack Daniel’s; one of my college buddies works for Brown-Forman and coincidentally lead that deal. JD got downside protection / schmuck insurance (i.e., they’d pay less if McLaren fared worse than it had in the Constructors Championship), but McLaren didn’t get upside “protection.”
Given McLaren’s performance of late, my buddy has earned a promotion and is moving to Singapore to run something over there for Brown-Forman.
Regarding Red Bull, Max, and Sergio, I'm beginning to see Sergio as Michael Anthony to Max's Eddie Van Halen - a nice guy, but woefully under-talented, relatively speaking, and not respected by the true star of the outfit. Continuing that thought, does that make, say, Yuki or Lando the Billy Sheehan in this metaphor - the guy Max really wants to play with?
If we're all being honest, Eat 'Em and Smile is a better Van Halen album than 5150. Of course, it helped that Dave essentially assembled VH.v2 by hiring Steve Vai and Gregg Bissonette, then one-upping Eddie by adding Billy Sheehan.
Was Cornell, 5/8/77 really the Dead's best show ever, or was it just one of their better shows that happened to have a high quality "Betty board" soundboard recording circulating among tape traders?
Remember when McLaren hired Mansell and he didn’t fit in the car so they had to build him a special one? My F1 friends and I called it “the tubby tub”.
There must be a way to wedge Jack into a seat. I'd even watch F1 races then, just to see if Jack can go from last to first position. And I'm imagining a series of colorful, hilarious stories under the banner "Unavoidable Contact"
One of the greatest regrets of my life is simply being too wide to fit into my friend Malcolm's 2007 McLaren F1 car. Even if I got down to my healthiest weight, which is probably 190-195 pounds, my shoulders are too wide for the opening in the car.
Being tall isnt that annoying. Mostly a net benefit. Sitting in anything for the average person is. I could lose some weight for sure but that isnt going to make my shoulders fit in a regulation airline seat
I was on a domestic configured 737 JAL flight from Osaka to Narita several years ago, I was in the isle seat, a former D1 defensive lineman I talked to on the flight at the window, and a poor average sized Japanese man in the middle seat. You could not see said Japanese man if you were looking at our row from the front because of the guy at the window and my shoulders were touching as we leaned forward to not squish the Japanese guys head like a grape between us.
It's been a while since I flew but the seats have been deliberately shrunken to suit the average size (insert hated immigrant or racial group) person .
Flying was fun in the 1960's ! .(turbo jets were kinda noisy though)
My Hamilton hate is only slightly lower than yours, but I still called my baffled family into the room to watch the final 5 laps. Still don't love hearing Deutschland uber Alles.
It has gone on long enough that I want to know what has happened to Perez. Is there some point when a driver just looses his edge? Is it the same thing that happened to Ricciardo at McLaren? Does being a perfect #2 destroy one's resiliency? Does he want to get fired so he can go home but still collect his pay?
As for Yuki, does Mindardi's telemetry tell them something about his driving style that is giving them pause?
I suspect he'll be off to Aston Martin along with Honda.
Formula 1 drivers aren't wired to have their asses handed to them day in and day out. Even the worst of them won at a few levels on their way up. None of them got there by having a teammate collect all of the silverware while they made up the numbers. Sharing a car with Max Verstappen breaks them. It happened to Gasly. It happened to Albon. Ricciardo took a runner. And now it has happened to Perez.
It took longer with Perez, because he was an established driver who earned the seat by winning in a Racing Point. He also brought so much of Carlos Slim's filthy money that the team was determined to make him succeed. Still, F1 drivers can't stand up to having someone who can handle a looser car than they can while going faster every lap of every session. Whoever they put in the car to replace Perez; Max Verstappen will destroy him. Max was bred to be a champion by an F1 driver and a championship karter. He was then groomed by his brutal father who learned what it takes by watching the previous best driver in F1. Max then spent half his teens competing in F1. He is now the Russian gymnast of Formula 1, and the other drivers need the FIA to look the other way when their front wings pivot under load to get a sniff at him. Nobody has a chance in the same equipment.
And everyone who works for and has worked for McKinsey needs to be given a one way ticket to the Ukrainian front lines. I’ve had to deal with their BS and I hate them.
I have seen the BS first hand. McKinsey and BCG (as Boom mentioned). They don’t know what the hell they are talking about; know nothing about the business; make recommendations that don’t work— and years later make opposite calls when hired again. Companies should listen to the folks that deal with the customer. Period.
We recently sold my wife’s 2010 XC70, which was an overall excellent vehicle. When doing prep work for the sale with our indie Volvo-specialist mechanic, and casually getting his thoughts on the newer cars, he was absolutely adamant that we do not buy another Volvo post 2016-ish (or whenever the new Geely generations started rolling in). Apparently, the amount of $5K-10K bills he has to give to clients is staggering, and he says it's taken all the love out of the brand for him.
I thought he was just being hyperbolic for show, but then he pointed to his Lexus RX in the parking lot, with an “XVOLVOMAN” license plate. I thought that was interesting for a guy who for a few decades has run the sole Volvo speciality shop in town... basically bashing the product that is his livelyhood.
Although with the recent Toyota/Lexus engines blowing up, he may need to get a new license plate at some point (although I believe his is the NA V6 still).
Or do buy one, but do so with the 10-year, unlimited-mile Certified by Volvo warranty, and then drive the piss out of it. Note that that’s 10 years from the original in-service date, not an additional ten years from when you buy it. Still, if you buy one that’s a year old, get the warranty, and then drive the piss out of it, you’ll get your money’s worth.
Oh, who am I kidding? I did exactly this with a 2017 XC90 Inscription T6 in 2020, and it still pissed me off enough that I got rid of it.
Unfortunately we're not in a financial position to buy a new/CPO Volvo as they are still pretty pricey....but agreed, the long-warranty CPO (or Lease) is the way to go with these cars. Having said that, at some point you just get tired of having to take it in, or have a car you know you can't fully rely on.
After driving my 20 year old LX470 for the last month while searching for a new car, I'm starting to suspect that my wife's new strategy is to just slowly commandeer that for herself.
We got rid of our XC90 in favor of a TX350 just for the Lexus reliability. Wanted to go with an LX or GX but they just didn't have the room we wanted for kids sports. Looking forward to when the kids can drive themselves and we can downsize to either.
My P3 XC70 is the best thing I have ever spent money on. I refuse to give it to my daughter. 200k now with just fluids, tires and other consumables and this winter a thermostat.
The P3s certainly were/are endearing. The 3.2 I6 is fundamentally solid, though that rear-end accessory drive (a result of Volvo shoehorning a large I6 engine in a transverse application) is pricey to service.
Very glad nothing back there has gone wrong. IIRC shoehorning a transverse i6 in there gave them a better crumple zone without extending the nose compared to the v6s Ford put into their P3 derived vehicles.
I think that the crumple zone was a benefit of the forward facing exhaust on the sky active engines forcing the long nose styling.
That's a great way to describe it. They never got the proportions or some of the interior materials quite right. It almost made you want to look at an XTS.
I have put about 1100 miles so far on my P2 S60 project car, and I find it to be quiet, comfortable and generally pleasant to use. Is the P3 more of the same?
something about america being a rotting corpse with "conservatives" rooting for the corpse and "progressives" rooting for the maggots. i saw the McKinsey news yesterday and my first thought was "only $4M? NYC must have haggled hard!" the maggots are hard at work, but hey, they are eating, and in a eat or be eaten world... i just don't think i can blame them. life is tough but it's easier when you are rich.
also, i regret to inform mike that he is anywhere from 10-20% over market rate on that FiST in a market that is growing ever more flaccid with an orphan model of an orphan line of an increasingly difficult to defend brand. methinks it sells at 19k.
I hate management consultants (esp McK) so hard, it's beyond words.
i'm with you, but in a nation ruled by scam and grift, i have to admit its a pretty goddamn good scam and grift. and then when you are done scamming and grifting there, you can scam and grift your way down the consultancy ladder until you retire.
and it just struck me that this is an extension of the "Credentialism" scam we discussed earlier this week. trust me bro, i am a wharton MBA and i work at McKinsey. nevermind the historically bad advice we have given in the past!! dont look at that!!
“Trust me bro, just ignore that I’m 24 and have zero other job experience”
the irony is, if you do nothing but consult for a lifetime, you actually will likely become a pretty good consultant (for whatever that is worth), but the knowledge will be acquired through a sort of cargo cult labyrinth of interpreting other people's successes or failures through the lens of the advice you give them versus operational experience. source: trust me bro
The best sports coaches and managers seem to be former players with less than illustrious playing careers.
I have seen nothing but uniformly bad advice from *Wharton* MBAs in particular.
It could well be that the survival of the American economy isn't what their professors have in mind.
I wonder if it’s because they spent a long time thinking about why they sucked? The frustration of failure could drive some real analysis.
that takes a level of introspection and unemotional analysis that most people lack. so combine the two and thats probably the elite coaches of the world.
Funny thing you mention this ~ I was trying to have a conversation with my elder brother about this Tuesday and he just began berating me because my simple crappy life is better (IMO) than his as viewed by who's happy, me the crippled Blue Collar H.S. dropout or him the semi famous Hollywood divorce lawyer who's having trouble making ends meet.....
He really gets angry when he sees I'm happy .
-Nate
im still gonna hate lewis because he acts and dresses like a dingdong most of the time
was this tuner fiesta the same one that farah owned or was that another car
It surely was the same car.
Speed ;
Does he have his dirty drawers showing from his baggy pants around his knees ? .
Or simple doesn't know how to dress properly ?.
I ask because I'll give the _second_ one a pass, .
The first notsomuch .
-Nate
sometimes both
half the time it barely looks like clothes
Okay ;
I remember in the late 1980's it was 'cool' (?) for women and girls to were lingerie as clothing in the streets .
Me, I like curvy women with big tits .
Seeming them pretty much on display was weird .
-Nate
i like curvy women with big tits too nate
i think thats something everyone can agree on
You'd be surprised Sir ;
I discovered many decades ago that many men are afraid of women and big tits give them the willies because they worry they can't handle it .
Sad but true .
-Nate
Holy moly MotoGP!
Jorge Martin puts in a banger of a sprint and picks up five points on Bagnaiai to shore up his championship points lead. Trackhouse Racing earns their first podium with Miguel Oliviera in second, and Bagnaia finishes third. I love the no-holds barred sprint format with regard to tire wear and strategy as well as the feed into strategy and set up for the full length race. Marc Marquez had a heroic showing after a high side that left him badly bruised and with a broken finger where he went 13th to 6th.
In the race Martin again had a commanding lead and was managing the gap to Bagnaia well until he pushed a little too hard on the penultimate lap and lost the front for a DNF. Bagnaia cruised to victory with a healthy lead over the second and third place Marquez brothers with Marc in second place! Marquez' performance and Martin's crash keep Marquez' championship hopes alive as Bagnaia takes the lead by 10 points with only a fifty point spread between first and third. Any more DNFs from the top two put 93 in good position if he can keep chipping away.
I've gone back and watched 2/3rds of Moto2 and it's been competitive without a rider clearly dominating the field which is enjoyable to watch. The constant reference to Pirelli rubber by the commentary is a bit nerve grating.
As for classifieds I know someone in real life who, due to surgery for cancer, is selling his Steve McQueen Bonneville T100 with 7k on the clock. You can contact me for details at silentsod at the Google mail if interested. I think he's asking on the high end.
Martin knows this is his best short term chance to win the championship. Is the pressure getting to him? He has the same bike as Pecco, and MMarquez has last year’s Duc. Next year Martin will be on the second best bike (Aprilia) and Pecco/MM will be on the same equipment. (His hope next year is those two take enough points away from each other to allow him to prevail.)
“more diversity in both boards and executive teams, in both gender and ethnicity, is robustly correlated with higher social and environmental impact scores“
I imagine the definition of a “social impact score” itself includes some measure of DEI, making this a nice closed loop of patting oneself on the back.
Like colleges encouraging kids to apply so that they can reject them to improve their exclusivity ranking
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fobvqaa0lhn841.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D00e27fe47ee6ede53e5e0f0a8be0ce6322fe07d4
That's a cheap shot Jack .
-Nate
It’s a self-suck ouroboros all the way down
Exactly my thought. “If you hire DEI you’ll get a higher score on the ‘did you hire DEI’ test.”
So the fuck what?
it's also a classic correlation not causation issue:
Politically correct companies waste funds both on DEI and Social/Environmental impact because they're all ways to show obeisance to liberal orthodoxy.
It would take an interesting mentality (best described by orwell) to find this surprising
Fascinating how "Orwillian" was coined to say what you just did .
-Nate
Similar to Jack's own views...I've never been a real fan of Lewis Hamilton, but I will admit that I don't mind seeing him win as an underdog. That was a career day for him winning the British GP this year and, it honestly could be his last victory ever (particularly once his fate is sealed by going to Ferrari). Try as I might, I have nothing but respect and admiration for SLH for what he and Mercedes accomplished last weekend. Truly spectacular stuff.
I cannot be the only one who predicts that the Hamilton-Ferrari combination won't end well, but it is what it is. At the end of the day every Formula One fan is a Ferrari fan, or so the saying goes.
I agree that it was great to root for Lewis as the underdog, and to throw another constructor into the mix at the front of the grid. It was one hell of a race, and Lewis and Mercedes deserve respect for the accomplishment.
I was on the edge of my seat for almost the entirety of his maiden win in Montreal. David Hobbs repeating "keep it on the island" was literal that time!
Hamilton is lucky, but he did create his own luck to a degree. Can't fault him for that. This season is more fun since 3-4 manufacturers are all in play depending on the specifics of the track and the conditions.
Mike's car is EXPENSIVE for a rare but clean toy. GLWS.
Mckinsey and Boston Consulting Group are good for only one thing: Charging tens of millions to 'study' and provide conclusions that amount to: "It'd be mighty nice if you didn't have to run payroll for so many people!!!" TO HELL with these parasites and the C-suite dipshits that spend stockholder money on them.
The ONLY Volvo that is WORTH buying is the V90. The rest are all trash. I have my concerns about a chinese sourced 'super-turbo-hybrid' AWD powertrain... but the inside and out looks mighty nice!
McLaren may have screwed up both their driver's strategies and lost an easy 1-2 at home, but at least they made that decision from a building designed by an architect who Sherman dreams of blowing.
Yuki may not get any action from Red Bull but he's getting some in your dreams Jack.
P.S. (I'm actually impressed and a fan as an engineer of how much Mclaren, the race team manages with fewer resources compared to the big OEM teams, they're easily the best 'independent' team in F1 and have been for a while).
"TO HELL with these parasites and the C-suite dipshits that spend stockholder money on them"
thank you boom
that should be plastered on the walls of most major institutions that hire them
Unfortunately I’m out of a job right now, but I can say, the amount of people that want “management consultants” for roles is astounding. I know I screwed up by not going into IB post college, but damn. I have never met a consultant I liked
"I know I screwed up by not going into IB post college"
same bro same
i just tell myself that this was the path i was supposed to walk
Yeah but then I'd be a major asshole.
Happily, I didn't even finish High School yet I manage to be a total asshole often .
-Nate
"Yuki may not get any action from Red Bull but he's getting some in your dreams Jack."
Back in the day I absolutely would have split some chick with Yuki. Give me a chance to be what Rodney calls "the anchor" in... okay, I'm just gonna turn the Internet off for a while.
bro what
The year will be 2044. A decrepit septuagenarian Jack will be living off social security, his side job, and the 83 remaining subscribers at ACF and we're still gonna make fun of Sherman about that architect.
I had a very low option of Zach Brown for a long time. I hate being forced to revise what I think.
The country crooner and sometime vintner?
Or the Yankee running the McLaren Racing operation?
My opinion of both was the same. I am only revising my opinion of the Yank running McLaren racing.
He is probably the best at sponsorship. Look at all the decals on his cars and his background.
He has Coca-Cola, when Ferrari should obviously have that brand; would be a good long-term replacement for Marlboro / Mission Winnow / Philip Morris.
Coca-Cola brought him Jack Daniel’s; one of my college buddies works for Brown-Forman and coincidentally lead that deal. JD got downside protection / schmuck insurance (i.e., they’d pay less if McLaren fared worse than it had in the Constructors Championship), but McLaren didn’t get upside “protection.”
Given McLaren’s performance of late, my buddy has earned a promotion and is moving to Singapore to run something over there for Brown-Forman.
I agree, but I also think red bull is a very close second at sponsorship.. which is ironic given that they probably don't need any sponsors...
Garvin Brown is featured in the Can-Am documentary "Circuit". I highly recommend it. Used to have it on VHS but you can watch it here....
https://youtu.be/kidFHfSJhd4?si=41VLOxZusOOwgbNr
Regarding Red Bull, Max, and Sergio, I'm beginning to see Sergio as Michael Anthony to Max's Eddie Van Halen - a nice guy, but woefully under-talented, relatively speaking, and not respected by the true star of the outfit. Continuing that thought, does that make, say, Yuki or Lando the Billy Sheehan in this metaphor - the guy Max really wants to play with?
If you need me, I’ll be re-listening to “Eat ‘em and Smile.”
If we're all being honest, Eat 'Em and Smile is a better Van Halen album than 5150. Of course, it helped that Dave essentially assembled VH.v2 by hiring Steve Vai and Gregg Bissonette, then one-upping Eddie by adding Billy Sheehan.
Not so much Eat Em and Smile, but definitely Skyscraper.
Skyscraper was definitely stronger than OU812.
Was Cornell, 5/8/77 really the Dead's best show ever, or was it just one of their better shows that happened to have a high quality "Betty board" soundboard recording circulating among tape traders?
I would like to see Jack in one of those open F1 seats!
It's going to need to be REALLY open given his complaints about his own weight!
They'd have to glue two open seats together in order for me to fit!
shades of tony stewart trying to fit in lewis hamiltons car
Tony Stewart and I use the same Hans Device -- or at least we did back in 2006, I bet he has a new one, I just keep getting mine renewed.
Remember when McLaren hired Mansell and he didn’t fit in the car so they had to build him a special one? My F1 friends and I called it “the tubby tub”.
There must be a way to wedge Jack into a seat. I'd even watch F1 races then, just to see if Jack can go from last to first position. And I'm imagining a series of colorful, hilarious stories under the banner "Unavoidable Contact"
One of the greatest regrets of my life is simply being too wide to fit into my friend Malcolm's 2007 McLaren F1 car. Even if I got down to my healthiest weight, which is probably 190-195 pounds, my shoulders are too wide for the opening in the car.
Being tall isnt that annoying. Mostly a net benefit. Sitting in anything for the average person is. I could lose some weight for sure but that isnt going to make my shoulders fit in a regulation airline seat
If airline seats are designed for the avg person, "person" must be a 10 year old female.
I do not have broad shoulders, but shoulder and space is an issue sitting next to any male.
I was on a domestic configured 737 JAL flight from Osaka to Narita several years ago, I was in the isle seat, a former D1 defensive lineman I talked to on the flight at the window, and a poor average sized Japanese man in the middle seat. You could not see said Japanese man if you were looking at our row from the front because of the guy at the window and my shoulders were touching as we leaned forward to not squish the Japanese guys head like a grape between us.
Yeah ;
It's been a while since I flew but the seats have been deliberately shrunken to suit the average size (insert hated immigrant or racial group) person .
Flying was fun in the 1960's ! .(turbo jets were kinda noisy though)
-Nate
Naw ;
Just use a few pounds of Crisco to lube the seat edges and rails etc., your weight will plop you right in .
-Nate
My Hamilton hate is only slightly lower than yours, but I still called my baffled family into the room to watch the final 5 laps. Still don't love hearing Deutschland uber Alles.
It has gone on long enough that I want to know what has happened to Perez. Is there some point when a driver just looses his edge? Is it the same thing that happened to Ricciardo at McLaren? Does being a perfect #2 destroy one's resiliency? Does he want to get fired so he can go home but still collect his pay?
As for Yuki, does Mindardi's telemetry tell them something about his driving style that is giving them pause?
"As for Yuki, does Mindardi's telemetry tell them something about his driving style that is giving them pause?"
It might be as simple as: Honda made us have a Japanese driver, so F that guy.
I suspect he'll be off to Aston Martin along with Honda.
Formula 1 drivers aren't wired to have their asses handed to them day in and day out. Even the worst of them won at a few levels on their way up. None of them got there by having a teammate collect all of the silverware while they made up the numbers. Sharing a car with Max Verstappen breaks them. It happened to Gasly. It happened to Albon. Ricciardo took a runner. And now it has happened to Perez.
It took longer with Perez, because he was an established driver who earned the seat by winning in a Racing Point. He also brought so much of Carlos Slim's filthy money that the team was determined to make him succeed. Still, F1 drivers can't stand up to having someone who can handle a looser car than they can while going faster every lap of every session. Whoever they put in the car to replace Perez; Max Verstappen will destroy him. Max was bred to be a champion by an F1 driver and a championship karter. He was then groomed by his brutal father who learned what it takes by watching the previous best driver in F1. Max then spent half his teens competing in F1. He is now the Russian gymnast of Formula 1, and the other drivers need the FIA to look the other way when their front wings pivot under load to get a sniff at him. Nobody has a chance in the same equipment.
Perfectly stated. From front to back. Max is a different kind of creature. He will succeed as long as he wants to.
And everyone who works for and has worked for McKinsey needs to be given a one way ticket to the Ukrainian front lines. I’ve had to deal with their BS and I hate them.
I have seen the BS first hand. McKinsey and BCG (as Boom mentioned). They don’t know what the hell they are talking about; know nothing about the business; make recommendations that don’t work— and years later make opposite calls when hired again. Companies should listen to the folks that deal with the customer. Period.
+1 on the V90 recommendation. I enjoy driving and hauling stuff in my 2021.
The Audi equivalent has a V6 and more tech, but the Volvo maintenance costs are more reasonable.
RE: Volvo
We recently sold my wife’s 2010 XC70, which was an overall excellent vehicle. When doing prep work for the sale with our indie Volvo-specialist mechanic, and casually getting his thoughts on the newer cars, he was absolutely adamant that we do not buy another Volvo post 2016-ish (or whenever the new Geely generations started rolling in). Apparently, the amount of $5K-10K bills he has to give to clients is staggering, and he says it's taken all the love out of the brand for him.
I thought he was just being hyperbolic for show, but then he pointed to his Lexus RX in the parking lot, with an “XVOLVOMAN” license plate. I thought that was interesting for a guy who for a few decades has run the sole Volvo speciality shop in town... basically bashing the product that is his livelyhood.
Although with the recent Toyota/Lexus engines blowing up, he may need to get a new license plate at some point (although I believe his is the NA V6 still).
Or do buy one, but do so with the 10-year, unlimited-mile Certified by Volvo warranty, and then drive the piss out of it. Note that that’s 10 years from the original in-service date, not an additional ten years from when you buy it. Still, if you buy one that’s a year old, get the warranty, and then drive the piss out of it, you’ll get your money’s worth.
Oh, who am I kidding? I did exactly this with a 2017 XC90 Inscription T6 in 2020, and it still pissed me off enough that I got rid of it.
There are at least 5 XC90's on my block and every single one is leased.
That’s the only way to go…
Unfortunately we're not in a financial position to buy a new/CPO Volvo as they are still pretty pricey....but agreed, the long-warranty CPO (or Lease) is the way to go with these cars. Having said that, at some point you just get tired of having to take it in, or have a car you know you can't fully rely on.
After driving my 20 year old LX470 for the last month while searching for a new car, I'm starting to suspect that my wife's new strategy is to just slowly commandeer that for herself.
We got rid of our XC90 in favor of a TX350 just for the Lexus reliability. Wanted to go with an LX or GX but they just didn't have the room we wanted for kids sports. Looking forward to when the kids can drive themselves and we can downsize to either.
The TX is Lexus’ first proper three-row vehicle, and I’m amazed it took this long for it to come to fruition.
My xc60 was the most boring car I ever owned. Not the worst by any stretch of the imagination, but the most boring.
My P3 XC70 is the best thing I have ever spent money on. I refuse to give it to my daughter. 200k now with just fluids, tires and other consumables and this winter a thermostat.
Everything after the P3 has been shit.
The P3s certainly were/are endearing. The 3.2 I6 is fundamentally solid, though that rear-end accessory drive (a result of Volvo shoehorning a large I6 engine in a transverse application) is pricey to service.
Very glad nothing back there has gone wrong. IIRC shoehorning a transverse i6 in there gave them a better crumple zone without extending the nose compared to the v6s Ford put into their P3 derived vehicles.
I think that the crumple zone was a benefit of the forward facing exhaust on the sky active engines forcing the long nose styling.
Correct on both counts.
I had one of those Volvo-derived cars, a 2014 Lincoln MKS. It was simultaneously delightful and underwhelming.
That's a great way to describe it. They never got the proportions or some of the interior materials quite right. It almost made you want to look at an XTS.
I have put about 1100 miles so far on my P2 S60 project car, and I find it to be quiet, comfortable and generally pleasant to use. Is the P3 more of the same?