I can’t wait for the dealers to go the way of the dinosaurs. There is hardly a worse bunch of useless parasites in the animal world than car dealers.

“and this has also made dealers unlikely allies for buyers”

You know what else looks good? A sky full of undiminished stars.

Too me adding all these LEDs to such an iconic structure is as tacky as gluing sequins and feathers onto the Mona Lisa or adding a floor or new addition to an Eichler ranch. Save the golly-gee-whiz trick lighting for the bland new builds that need bells and whistles to generate visual interest and relight the Bay…

I mean, if the bridge is safe enough without the lights, why are we wasting energy on lights?  Nighttime’s bright enough as it is and light pollution is a real thing.

I feel like a solar powered charging station for your personal EV would be the way to go.

Yeah, it is almost like wage growth has stagnated and the guarantee of a yearly raise and bonus that boomers grew up with dried up after their 40 years in the workforce.

tbh, it might not really be a zoomer thing. if you’re young and making shitty money and the average price of a new car is like $40K, then there you go.

But there would be fewer clicks if they said that in the article....

Why not both?

Call me uppity, but $92K gets me this? The hard black plastic and chintzy control nobs scream Chevy Cruise.

Tesla seems to not care too much about customer relations. Given that they used to be purely supply constrained with no credible competition but are now looking at a changing market place, that might be something they’ll want to rethink.

“You don’t take out a loan for an iPhone,”

i dunno about any of you but i have been losing money for about a year in the market so i would pay down even a 2% interest debt. except now is a good time to buy stock. fuck i dunno what i’m doing. but i do know that sitting in a new car makes me feel better about the world turning to shit.

You did read the part of the article that said that there where no good ways to make the chrome plating clean and that the only way that is somewhat effective instead releases PTFA? 

Yes, no jobs in California. The 5th largest economy in the world.

Leasing has historically made sense if you want to get a new (not just new to you, but new) car every three years or so. If you do, then leasing has historically been more attractive then buying, and then trading in, every three years.

You nailed it. My ‘19 Q7 was due for expiration and I was going to get another leased Q7. Had the same dealer quote it out and money factor on it was so insane that it nearly doubled the lease cost for about the same residual. This was going to be the 3rd Q7 since 2017 that we leased. I bought the ‘19 out, traded it…

Not really, but I can’t speak for all brands. We dont hammer people on down payments, because it really only affects monthly payment, there’s no advantage to it other than that. Maybe 500 or 1000 to get the payment from $415 to a better-feeling $389 or whatever, but now when your talking a 10-15 dollar a month…

People arent leasing right now because the manufacturers have completely stopped subventing lease rates and residuals.