The Best Ways To Spend $230 Million On An Automaker: COTD

A ton of money flows through the car business. Just one platform can cost hundreds of millions to develop and some car brands have been known to burn billions of dollars at points in their lives. It’s fun to think about what could happen if you were rich enough to influence an automaker.

Matt wrote a Morning Dump, which included a story about how Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway pumped $230 million into BYD, and that the company began selling shares years ago. Then Matt asked how you would spend the same money. Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man:

I’d invest the $230 million into “The Autopian Motors Corporation” “AMC”
Better get The Bishop to start on some more concept cars renderings ASAP!

I love this idea! Drew:

What’s Henrik Fisker doing these days? He’s always a safe bet, right?

GhosnInABox:

“If you had $230 million to spend on automaker stock, what are you buying?”

Whichever one that $230 million represents a significant enough controlling interest for me to get stuff done.

Investors are so out of touch and concerned with fast returns that the average man has no representation.

I want to go through that place like Hank Hill when he focus-grouped that fancy lawnmower.

Piano black plastic? Gone!

Physical knobs? Abundant!

Price? Starts at 15 mutha f**kin’ thou! (There’s your slogan, free of charge!)

Speaking of Chinese cars, the BYD Yangwang U9 Xtreme is now the world’s fastest production car, which is neat. Ariel E Jones makes a good point:

I see a lot of people sleeping on the Chinese. They’re working with 20 year old intel. Once the US realizes the Chinese are “catching up” they’ll be far ahead, which is probably the case already.

Jason wrote a Cold Start featuring 1956 Saab 93 brochure images. I love this extra context from Jeremy Aber:

That image on the beach has to be a Swedish beach, which means it’s about 64F and the water is like 50F, perfect weather for a beach day!

This is also the case when you look at most images of people enjoying a beach day on most of the Great Lakes. If you see me swimming in Lake Michigan in May, it’s not because it’s warm! Have a great evening, everyone!