Yep, it is wild. I haven’t looked at the lux-EV’s at all but it is hard to believe that these deals can continue on for a long time. Most of these are taking multiple hits on the OEM. First, they put big lease cash on the hood lowering the cap cost AND then when lease turn in time comes, they get smacked by more than…

Google says it is held privately, but they obviously use it for their own uses to some extent. You can disable it if you want, but sometimes it is actually nice. Like where did we go to eat 2 years ago for our anniversary? Oh, here it is!

Yall remember that time Elon had someone “try to kidnap” his kid to get the Elonjet one removed? Pepperidge farm remembers.

Meh, it is kind of whatever. Where he was drafted and the role he will serve on the Lakers makes it kind of a whatever thing. Could someone else be there? Sure! But would likely be the same role, aka, a non-factor on a team.

Yea, second round in the NBA draft (especially 2nd half of round 2) is essentially teams hoping to get lucky and maybe find a depth player that can fill a certain role or a complete project player.

Was NOT draft pretty high. Second round in the NBA is the last round and usually used on hopefully bit players and/or major projects.

#1 is by far the best and worst at the exact same time. The tailgating one was a close second as they were just in a parking lot near the Chrysler HQ building.

Yea, I am not very good at electronics but me too. Seems like a pretty easy and good idea. I actually need to do this for an outdoor stereo connection now that I think of it. I used what I call butt splices and now my left speaker won’t work after some renovations, so I am hoping it is just a bad connection.…

I would also assume that in this case the best practice would be to solder and then have a shrink cover over top of the joint to make it waterproof and also help it not vibrate apart. 

Yea, the EV deals are pretty wild. Most of them roll in the fed credit, but will end up with $12k+ off MSRP on the lease. I am a fan of the no money down leases, but that is just me. It is crazy that you can get a brand new car for essentially the price of a kind of used one (that 10-15k range) and then have three…

Of all the places to find an Indian restaurant, this is one I would not have expected. I mean, outside of like the mid-west or far north Yucca, AZ with a 4.5 star Indian place? Color me surprised.

The boring answer is an exotic that is about 20 years old, which should be right around the bottom of it’s deprication curve. You might need to go to 15 years old at the moment though, but historically, that is usually a good bet.

I guess, just seems crazy to me. I would have expected maybe $7k, $10k if I really needed/wanted it?

Haha, tis but a scratch!

Yep, I went with offer from Toyota and whatever their example used for the lease offer was. But you can definitely do better than that. A lot of EV’s have super low APR offers right now, so interest isn’t a huge factor. But it could be. Toyota had a lease offer on the BZ back in April or March that I almost took.

$16k for 130 miles, or less, of range? That seems damn expensive.

Yea, people buying an EV outright are insane. Just using the Solterra/BZ4x from this list as an example. Buying it you are paying around $44k give or take. If you lease, the cap cost is $31k. So, you are paying an extra $13k to “own” it.

Yea, it is a special kind of scumbag that sells people cars out from under them for sure.

I looked up the amortization too, but he has had the car three years. So it must be a longer than normal loan to have only paid off $80k in 2-3 years.

We don’t know the term or rate so it is hard to say. But only paying off $80k on $770k in three years of payments on a car doesn’t seem right. Even on a 10 year loan you would have paid off more than 11%.