Given how long people are willing to wait for a Model 3 (years....), a car not worth waiting for to begin with and (so far) hasn’t been available at the low-low-low price it was being advertised for anyway even with available-right meow competitors with real-world usable range are to be had down the street, I would…

What models of cars were those mark-ups on?  I cannot think of any Toyota at a $20k price point so in-demand that would warrant a $7k market adjustment (if you agree such a thing should be legal...), but more so what BMW is getting a $100k mark-up?  Holy Crap!

Depends on the car/situation I’m in with my current ride. Given that I rarely have strolled through any given dealer’s lot and saw any particular model that manufacturer offered in the configuration I would want it in, if I had the luxury to wait a few months I would totally order one up vs take the compromise off the…

Justin can correct me if I’m wrong here, but I was under the impression (based on author comments in various magazines) that long-term test cars were new cars, not the town bicycles that were given to journalists to use for a week at a time to write a review. They may even be purchased by the publication (I believe…

What I find funny about the TourX is that GM isn’t selling it in a market that actually buy wagons (Canada).

I believe GM NA was required to fulfill the contract originally made to sell the Commodore as the G8. When Pontiac was shelved, there were still cars that had to be sold here. So GM changed it to a Chevrolet when Holden refreshed the Commodore and in the laziest move possible just slapped a trim badge on it and did…

Contrary to a sunroof, automatic transmissions ‘are’ a maintenance nightmare.

Just because something shares a few of the same underpinings doesn’t mean they’re built to the same standard.  Also, the Regal/Insignia has been chastized as seeming pretty cheap by every North American and Australian reviewer I’ve come across - well built but cheap.  The Malibu is just cheap - I don’t see it as…

I would imagine mainstream American cars would be perceived as large Dacias?  Or are they nicer than that?  I don’t know I haven’t seen any in person....

Not sure what numbers you’re looking at, but we have TPP and an EU trade deal we can exploit and we aren’t pissing at any of our trade partners either.  Further, under WTO rules things resume back to pre-NAFTA agreements, so sure, throw some tarriffs, but we have been buying a lot of your shit as much as you’ve been…

I’m hoping we do. Frankly, the only surprising thing about that is that he a) actually admitted it and b) didn’t do it on Twitter first. I’m no fan of Trudeau, but honestly he’s handled the orange hair-lick as even-handedly as anyone could have. He was going to wear a negative outcome on this deal either way - if…

I get your point in theory, but I wrote off a 2001 Z24 a few years ago that was maybe worth $750CDN and got $1900 out of the insurance payout from having collision on it (the car was in good shape body and mechanically but had 330,000+kms on the odo).  Collision was an extra $20/mo?  When it was written off I was…

If you are lucky and never have made a claim in your driving life, then technically yes, you’ve reaped zero benefit from your investment.  Unlike the analogy some like to use of insurance being like the catch net for a high-wire walker, the difference is the acrobat pays for it once, has use of it whether they fall on…

If you are lucky and never have made a claim in your driving life, then technically yes, you’ve reaped zero benefit from your investment.  Unlike the analogy some like to use of insurance being like the catch net for a high-wire walker, the difference is the acrobat pays for it once, has use of it whether they fall on…

Only political party that can take a guaranteed money making business be unprofitable better than a provincial Liberal Party is a provincial NDP party, except the Liberals are also money-laundering and bribing their political allies at the same time with the cash. The Conservatives just sell it off, blow the profits…

You know what those potential purchasers will buy?  A different imported vehicle.  MAYBE it is built in North America, maybe not.  Or they’ll go to the used market and get a 2-year old CPO of something.  Eventually, if the tarriffs/banning that is propsed lasts long enough, some more production will show up in North…

That. Or instead of a “can’t sell it for 2 years” clause any idiot knows isn’t going to hold water and is just goading some guy with many dollars in his pocket to do what is happening now, have a ‘right of first refusal’ clause, there by controlling the future sale until they want it. But in all honesty, I don’t get…

Well, Canada and Mexico have TPP, Canada has a new trade deal with the EU, and I’m sure Mexico has something similar since they seem to get a lot of Euro-stuff that isn’t available in the US already.  US goods are already being boycotted in Canada and is only bound to expand if/when Donny pulls out of NAFTA.  Canada…

Justin, I believe you need to put on my glasses. That, or stop taking whatever illicit substance you’re on to get high - that thing looks terrible! 

Interesting yes. Interesting in that what he was demanding is that all US trading partners should end all tariffs on US imported goods and end industry subsidies within their own countries to allow freer market access to US producers. What he DIDN’T say is that he would reciprocate those same conditions for other…