Miss Mercedes Bait

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit) 05/03/2018 at 13:14 • Filed to: None

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1st gen Smart v Wheego comparison

Noah - Now with more boost. > Takuro Spirit 05/03/2018 at 13:21

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They couldn’t even make up a wheel design by themselves!

The Chinese gov’t needs to be sanctioned into oblivion until this BS at the expense of genuine innovators stops. But first we have to work on paying off that 1.17 trillion credit card bill we ran up with them building toys to murder people across the world with... SMH. I love this country but it’s embarrassing as fuck most of the time.

InFierority Complex > Takuro Spirit 05/03/2018 at 13:23

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This guy might be a better Doug.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 13:41

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Some of the money is being repatriated via “investors” buying up west coast real estate and an escape route for when the axe finally falls at home. Oh wait, that’s not so good either.

Noah - Now with more boost. > fintail 05/03/2018 at 13:44

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I would like some residency laws to combat that as well. NYC also has a major issue with this I guess, most penthouses and high floor apartments are empty and forgotten about by their oil money’d/communist corruption’d out owners.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 13:53

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Definitely, vacant housing owned by dirty money speculators is a crime during a time when many places have a legitimate and insane affordable housing crisis. Tax it onerously, or worse.

Don’t hold your breath on laws though, when the country has dealt in pay-for-play residency for a long time - son of a conman son-in-law of a conman Jared was even hawking it not long ago. Dirty money solves many problems. No “extreme vetting” for these types. Half of sales in my zipcode are to offshore cash buyers - and much of that cash comes from one place.

Noah - Now with more boost. > fintail 05/03/2018 at 14:39

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Ugh. Reason I am trying to attend law school #6565456. Not to be a hero but to at least understand why all of this works the way it does and perhaps be able to help people out on a pro bono basis when I have the time (<— lol... lawyers... free time... yeah right)

Mercedes Streeter > Takuro Spirit 05/03/2018 at 15:02

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Bait taken! He found himself a good specimen for that first gen smart. That’s kinda amazing to find at any rando used car dealership.

I had a chance to sit in a Wheego, it smelled of some of the worst tools you could get from a Harbor Freight.

That said, the degree to which the car copies the smart is kinda amazing. The guy is right, the car was built from the ground up to copy a smart, albeit poorly.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 15:15

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I think we know why it works like this (well, “works” for some, those being lucky generations and those fleeing with no-questions-asked money): the (real) golden rule

Noah - Now with more boost. > fintail 05/03/2018 at 15:27

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We have some family friends who bought an apartment in Boston during the 70s. $150k or something like that. Paid off decades ago. They sold it for 1.5 mil. Lucky generation indeed!

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 15:51

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I know of people in suburban Seattle who bought houses for under 100K in the mid 80s who are sitting on 1MM+++ now. It’s lunacy here.

Long-Voyager > Takuro Spirit 05/03/2018 at 15:56

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I thought a Wheego is supposed to be a 4-door Yugo?

Takuro Spirit > Long-Voyager 05/03/2018 at 15:59

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Yugo.... Wheego?

Noah - Now with more boost. > fintail 05/03/2018 at 17:03

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It’s happening on a not-that-much smaller scale in Boston too. Lots of house flipping going on in gentrified college kid heavy neighborhoods where you have students attending our many $50k/yr colleges which happen to be right next to the ghetto. It’s a very strange vibe. Incredible multi million dollar victorian style renovations right next to boarded up crack houses with nothing but college kids strolling around and a few families who haven’t been pushed out yet but are living in poverty next to R8 driving Chinese foreign exchange students.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 17:51

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I’ve noticed that in New England - demilitarized zone a stone’s throw from palaces. Not many neighborhoods like that out here - in this region, it is the desirable suburbs that have gone crazy,along with better neighborhoods of Seattle itself. Large swaths of housing that was once ordinary stock for working class people is now simply unattainable - houses that were 3x average income back in the day are now 15x the equivalent income.

Those may not be exchange students so much as the beneficiaries of purchased residency.

Noah - Now with more boost. > fintail 05/03/2018 at 19:53

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My politics are quite liberal but I really don’t like the attitude your average wealthy boston elite has re: charitable giving. Lots of check writing for international organizations and not much done for local causes.

fintail > Noah - Now with more boost. 05/03/2018 at 23:27

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Giving money soothes the soul - just like people who donate to TV preachers and megachurches.

You’ll find it here too, what the regressives call the “librul elite” can be generous, but sometimes has a “I got mine, to hell with you” attitude about locals.