The analogy is fine. You have the option of paying for more space on an aircraft. The industry is set up the way it is because of consumer preferences.
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It’s undoubtedly the second.
If you fly that much, you should have enough status to get those upgrades without the pass though. It’s not a bad deal if you fly enough, just seems odd because folks who fly enough to get the most value out of it would already be upgraded.
I don’t understand the hand wringing over economy class seats. You are paying as little as possible to get to your destination safely and (sometimes) on-time. The airlines have recognized that the only driver for 95+% of all airfare purchasers is price, so they de-content and cram seats in so that they can compete on…
Virtually every airline in the world offers some sort of “Economy Plus/Comfort/Extra” offering that costs a bit more than regular economy, but not nearly as much as first/business class.
I think you’ll see RS5 prices continue to decline for a bit. Contrast that with RS4 prices, which have begun to move upwards, since they made fewer RS4s and the RS4 is 6MT only.
Manual swap! Transforms the car and also happens to add about 50hp due to reduction in parasitic transmission losses. And you can properly tune them since you have the ability to put in a stronger clutch.
RS5s are actually cheaper than $40k. It’s not a terrible deal if you want something with a V-8 and AWD. No manual and more were made than the B7 RS4, which will hurt long term collectibility.
RS5s have plummeted. They are in the high $20k range on dealer auctions. These cars are 5, 6 year old at most and have lost 60-70% of their initial value.
RS5s are in the high 20k range on dealer auction sites. Don’t pay $40k for one...
You missed the middle-gen NSX with a V-10, which was delayed so many times that it was eventually cancelled and turned into a Super GT race car.
Not wide open. There need to be sizable changes in regulations every 1-2 years to keep any one team from having a large advantage. If you make the standards wide open, the cars won’t be drivable by humans, and the 1 or 2 richest teams will drive everyone out (which is what happened in LMP1).
This is a great point.
None times. Usually, they won’t even give you the slip if you run a time that is faster than allowed.
My commute is really short (under 7 miles round trip), so I can pull something like this off, though I wouldn’t get a GT4. I’m also perfectly okay with driving a fully depreciated “cheap” car 50% of the time and having something amazing the other 50%, so a loan like this actually makes some sense to me.
Over a longer term, the 144 month loan actually starts to be the better deal around 40-42 months out, assuming you invest spare cash at 7-9% returns.
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Whoa, so upset!
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