Yeah, I think I got there with my 3rd and 4th sentences ;) As for paying cash or financing if you have the option to do either, then run the numbers and do what feels best. Buying new and can get 0%, obviously finance most if not all. But when you’ve got cash, then working a deal on a used car becomes a great play and…

I’m not arguing that at all.  It is a big problem and only going to get worse.  Isn’t what I stated originally part of the way we can say “eff you” to the system?

I feel ya, but that’s a whole separate issue with regards to identity theft and it’s impact on your credit.

You’re making a big leap from a consumer trying to get out of an upside down car loan going right to the commercial side of things.

There is a 3rd way, don’t buy on credit. Save your money first, then buy what you want. Obviously not completely avoidable, but if you have patience and save, you’d never be in an upside down scenario with a need to get something different. I’ve never been upside down in a vehicle and had to roll that debt into a new…

I wouldn’t say he fucked up, just that the wife isn’t sticking to plan.  Women, I tell ya!

If you buy a lease out, you pay the residual value that was in the original lease contract, they do not hit you with the mileage penalties on top of that.  I did it once, worked out well for me, kept the vehicle 10 years and only sold it because 10 winters in Ohio had taken their toll.

My F-150 has the 36 gallon tank, so $9 is possible based on $.25/gal, but I never run it into the red, typically I put in around 30 gallons even though my Kroger fuel points work on purchases up to 35 galllons.

This has the potential to be great. Just let it be it’s own show inspired by the Golden Girls and not a re-boot.

Well, considering that history is full of marketing mistakes to use as examples, why is it so hard to think that maybe Caddy’s marketing department has made a mistake? Let’s look at some GM examples such as the Cadillac Cimmaron, Chevy SSR, and modern Pontiac GTO for example. How about a non auto example such as New…

My position is that Caddy has spent over a decade building up the name that represents the top model and they’ve just washed that down the drain by offering an inferior car relative to the previous version. Why would you do that? If they needed a mid point trim while they finished developing the proper top level…

I’d say that is the debate we are having, whether the market is still satisfied. Caddy has spent over a decade building equity in the -V brand and now it’s not the top trim. Is that a smart move on their part or not? I don’t think so. 

Doesn’t that get to the point of how Caddy has fucked up though? The V spec used to mean top spec. Alanis was correct when she said in the article that it should be called a CT4 V-sport, leaving the CT4-V for the top model.

I get both points of view, but I fall more into your’s Fe2O3, hence why I limit my projects to maintenance on newer vehicles. I had an old motorcycle once where I tried the hour here, hour there approach. Didn’t take long before every hour available was dedicated to getting it done.

Gotcha. I’ll have to try it. I went to their website and see that TGIFridays has Beyond on their menu also. I’m always willing to try new stuff. If it’s good, it’s good, doesn’t matter how it get’s there. I love me some beef, but I try to eat reasonably healthy.

Not specifically related to Ham, but I guess I need to check out Beyond Meat’s meatless burger.  They keep getting mentions, that’s for sure.  The lengths we’ll go to feel good about ourselves for not eating meat w/o sacrificing the taste lol

I think what happened is he missed the culvert with the front wheels/axle, but not the rear. The energy of the rear getting hooked and ripped off is what shot the back end up. Sorta like one of those gags in a movie where a chain is secretly hooked to the cop’s rear axle when he’s hiding behind a billboard in a…

If I was a fancy CBus, I’d totally buy this and drive it 20-30 miles once a year then have it fully detailed after said drive.  As it is, I’m just normal CBus and I’ll keep looking at AutoTrader adds for early 997 Carreras and hope I can save enough pennies before they start to appreciate.

Because this is a NP/CP thread where it’s been well established that rarity does not mean much.

If rare is what you want, then cool. Rare doesn’t mean good. Just like having Porsche on the hood doesn’t keep the the GT2 from being fooking rad in your eyes, the prancing horse doesn’t make the Mondial fooking rad in my eyes. Now, if this was a market priced 308 and we could pretend to be Magnum PI, then that is NP…