While that 84-month term may make that payment on an Si look appealing, it’s not a good idea in the long run. For one, the vehicle will lose value faster than you can repay the loan, and the long term means a person will be paying more interest, especially if a buyer doesn’t have a Tier 1 (scores of 700 or above)…

You want to embarrass owners of fine, exotic automobiles.

ok. Since they announced they were stopping support updates for v1, I already switched my lone v1 camera to stream the inside a little birdhouse I bought on Amazon. Have at it haxxors!

OMG, they are going to see my dogs lounging around in the back yard, or the UPS guy dropping a package on my porch.....geeze. They solved the issue dump any old v1's and enjoy the cameras you have.  If I want world class security I would not buy a $30 camera

Now I would get a notarized and signed purchase agreement clearly stating the price.

Calm down, Lewis Hamilton. 7 seconds is more than fine to get around town and life. You have been red pilled by the horsepower wars.

I would argue that with electric drive, it doesn’t feel slow, at least not around town. My brother has a Bolt, and it’s slower than this, but in typical city driving it feels quick. However, I will completely agree with you that if you aren’t going to offer (and market) the “cake and eat it to” point, it needs to be…

I think the bigger looming issue is student loan debt. Borrowers have enjoyed 0% interest and deferred minimum payments for 2+ years. Of those borrowers, how many have continued to pay their loans, hoping to get ahead? How many have splurged on needless other items assuming the windfall is going to last forever? I…

If you have suggestions for markups.org, perhaps you should submit them at markups.org/contact.html instead of the Jalopnik kinja blackhole.

Good. Never understood how that billing works anyway. I always compared it to buying an orange in the grocery store, then 6 months later getting an additional bill for $20 in the mail because the cashier you “chose” (there was only one lane open) was out of network based on your bank’s policies.

When the news broke it was literally the first question that popped into my head. I assume others were wondering the same thing.

The Santa Cruz looks like something out of a Transformers movie. It’s god-awful gaudy and cheap looking to me.

Exactly.

I don’t understand this take. Someone makes a small fuel efficient pickup and that’s a problem? We should only buy Brodoziers and Civics?  I see lot’s of people who have a commuter car and a beater pickup for weekend projects or sports stuff. Why is combining the two an issue? I still don’t understand why GM never…

Not really, but nobody would do that anyway.  You’d either just toss that stuff in the back seat or have a cover of some sort for the bed, like a Tonneau or something.  

Car makers: ‘Merica only wants Trucks and SUVs, so that’s what we make

This is a fair assessment, but who in their right mind would buy a fiesta or focus over a maverick? I owned a “14 1.0 ecoboost fiesta and it averaged 38-40 mpg depending on the time of year. The maverick I bought 3 months ago is consistently getting 40-44 mpg. It gets better mileage, has WAAAYYYY more space and cost…

Blame Wall Street for the panicked behavior you describe. Publicly traded companies will do stupid things in order to meet quarterly expectations.

3-5% price increase during a year of ~8% inflation is price gouging? You’re an idiot.

Adjusting to higher production costs due to inflation is not price gouging.