Jackson

Owner of Team Takeoff, Sales for Team Corvette and Hennessey Performance

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Season opener was a success

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@0xMerp I maintain that the weird pre-bankruptcy American cars of the 2000s will be on the rise soon.

The Prowler, SSR, HHR SS, H2, Avalanche, Envoy XUV. Weird stuff that will never be made again.

I also stand by the Z3 going up a ton, since Miata’s have risen to the same price

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@ChaiDeluxe Gridlife festival is probably the closest thing IRL

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@horsepower Traffic density would be up 2,000%

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@STR8RIPPIN From this list, it’s midship, with coliseum as a close second

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@horsepower Hear me out: don’t get a S-chassis. Biggest piles of shit out there and not worth the money people want for them.

ZN6 is still superior and cheap as hell nowadays.

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@KellytoyDK @LexlPurpl Wait until you see all of the money lost when they designed a fully biodegradable bag for Lays and then scrapped it because taste testers said the bag was “too loud”.

Also Pepsi had one of the world’s largest navies for a brief time

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@Dragxnite @KellytoyDK Prototypes for Chobani, a couple of the original preproduction bottles for Sobe (same bottle for Gatorade), and a custom bottle of Bulleit he made for my company a couple years ago.

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@Dragxnite @KellytoyDK Alright here is a few things:

Some of his patents for bottle designs. If you’ve ever watched How It’s Made and seen bottles filled on a line, you’ve seen one of his inventions. He helped design the industry standard for that process too.

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He was an engineer then executive for QTG group and PepsiCo for a number of years. He designed the bottles for Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Gatorade, Sobe, Naked Juice, and then went into the alcohol industry with Diageo and did a bunch of those.

I’ll have him send me pictures of some of the patents he has.

The family fortune has been built off of things that go in the trash.

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@2Hugh2Mungus All my homies hate Nardo Gray

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We can run some math here. Let’s use the Tahoe/Suburban platform. There’s about 130k sales per year.

Only 4% of truck drivers tow over 10,000lbs.

Using that math, 4% of Tahoe/suburbans sold per year is around 5,000 units.

That doesn’t factor in only 28% of SUV drivers tow at all. 4% of that 28% is 1500 annual units.

For comparison, the low-volume Corvette did 25,000 units last year.

It doesn’t make sense to produce.

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@CoachMarcWilson I mean yeah I’m with you, but…..why? How many Tahoe buyers are towing more than 5 tons with their whole family?

Doesn’t make any financial sense from a manufacturer standpoint

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Only 20ish% of people with SUVs actually tow. The amount that tow near the current 8.5k limit has to be a fraction of that.

Given the diesel excursion did ~11k, how many people need that extra 2.5k for towing?

Sure there would be people that buy them, but from the manufacturer’s standpoint, it doesn’t make sense to allocate line space and development costs for such a niche vehicle.

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@garygastelu The gf and I have been calling this exact spec the cuck car for years

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@KensethFan17_20 They’re gonna do the same thing that happened to studebaker, packard, nash, and the other cars from that generation are doing now. Gonna sink like a rock

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@horsepower 15-20 range at 26. I’m not 100% sure on the exact count but I know the most I’ve had is 9 at one time

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@918zuo If their course isn’t selling very well a C8 stingray

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@Succculenttrash I already own a bunch of Subarus so everything is reliable to me, but:
-Saab Sonnett III with the experimental steam engine
-Any 2000s Aston Martin
-Jaguar XK-RS
-Any Lotus
-Every generation STI + a SVX + a XT Turbo
-Anything with a rotary
-Renault Clio V6