I’m hoping for a Defector.com style car site. Bring back Steph, Jason, David, and so many. Defector has proven it can be a viable business. I would love to see a Defector.com style gaming site, with all the great talent that left Kotaku. Spanfeller and his ilk are the ones driving all this, causing such amazing talent…

Oh... I, uh, don’t know if I’ll still come around anymore much after this.

Yes they will. To some extent, the demand for cars is inelastic, but in normal times the supply is plentiful. People aren’t so much willing to pay, but rather they feel like they have no choice. Lease ending and buyout isn’t appealing for whatever reason, accident replacements, just plain really want a new car and…

My daughter is finally starting to show some promise at being able to drive. She would be a lot more comfortable in a tiny car. About 5 years ago, I saw the local FIAT dealer selling 500s for $13999. Now that they are 5 years old and Fiats, I thought “hmm, that might work”.   So I checked the prices on a 5 year old…

May be heavily a matter of optioning too. In the verge article they more or less say that Carvana was hard up for well appointed stick shifts. Sure, the whole market has been hard up for well appointed stick shifts for 20+ years, but this was a somewhat unusual spec car.

neither the Trax nor the Trailblazer are cars, if you’re narrowing your low $20s search to cars only you’re all in for a world of hurt

People want affordable cars, the Ford Maverick proves it. Tiny city cars though, nobody wants. For the same price on the used market you could get a regular ol sedan or a perfectly normal crossover, instead of a tiny, look at how poor I am, compact city car. Me personally, I love the tiny, look at how poor I am ,…

Eh, I don’t see why Ford would care. They might even get some sales of digital instrument clusters out of it. It’s an upgrade, not a fix for a glaringly stupid design/budget decision.

Since the throttle on modern cars are drive-by-wire, the cruise control isn’t mechanically operated anymore. I’ll bet it’s possible to just swap out some module and make it work (at least on some cars).

The only thing an XL is missing that I feel like I *need* is cruise control. Can I plug that in? :)

Had an 80's Escort growing up featuring both the shift light AND automatic seatbelts...oh what a car.

I love this comment so much.

God, when Missouri is ahead of you in ... well anything you are seriously failing

It’s a good conductor, and easy to work into shapes, but the goons who buy gold “For when society collapses” make me laugh until I shit in my pants.

I remember, in the before times, you could get a clean title Spark with under 70k at the dealer auctions for $2k-3k. They were practically giving them away. Nobody wanted them.

The problem is that there’s no correlation and you can’t tell. For your major, some expensive colleges are good and some inexpensive ones are bad and vice-versa, and significantly, some may be better for you and some worse for you and that might have little to do with the program in general. So it’s kind of a crap…

I’m hoping the Maverick, which I foolishly put an order for, will wind up this way. It shares a lot of parts with its platform siblings, particularly the Escape Hybrid’s powertrain. Theoretically it should be solid.

Im sure in the 133 comments and counting what I am going to say has already been said, but since I didnt bother reading far enough to see it:

These days you dont really have a choice. Either you reserve to order, then when your invited to order, you get to order, then you take delivery, but a car has ever even been to…

Hope that’s not the case with the Maverick!

No, I’m saying 180 or 300 hp, it doesn’t matter. They’re still gonna get on the highway 15 under.