Eating out less and taking zero vacations is going to go exactly nowhere towards $10k a year on a lease. Even eating out every day of the year would just barely cover half of it, and that’s assuming you pay zero for food you cook at home instead.

You’re kind of missing the point.

You know, interiors wearing out wouldn’t be as much of a problem if automakers didn’t stop selling interior parts less than ten years after the car was discontinued.

Many if not all of the advantages of crossovers are also disadvantages. They’re marketed as advantages and we’re upset that people fell for it. From your list:

No turbo is still a plus for a lot of buyers, particularly daily-driver buyers.

The 86/BRZ only weighs about 2,700 pounds.

I’ll never understand why anyone thinks dense cities are a good idea. We have effectively limitless empty space in the U.S., there’s no good reason to cram people into tightly packed cities that inevitably have less space for housing than they do for the businesses that require their employees live there.

NA 20B 1976 Corvette (With modern running gear underneath).

I’ve heard that they usually use replacement bodywork and engines while racing and only put the original stuff back on afterwards. Not sure if that applies to everything though, I know some of the more modern (comparatively) 80s vintage racers often have little to none of their original bodywork left.

You know they made the RX-8, right? You can still find 2011s with extremely low miles, and the second gens (2009+) are quite reliable.

Depends entirely on the state and probably also on the insurance company.

1. For the same reason that Valve can ban your steam account. It’s their product, they can refuse to serve you if they want.

Exactly, except that they don’t pay their drivers, the users do, and the drivers pay Uber.

Why would they not continue to do those things if they were charging drivers to use their app?

There’s nothing in Uber’s current business model that would prevent this either.

The proportions and donor car for a replica like this don’t matter that much as long as it looks good and is fun to drive, and this would certainly pass those tests. If you’re buying a replica to make other people think you have the real thing, you’re doing it wrong.

I’ll tell you why the 4G Eclipse existed: The choices in the segment in the late 2000s were TERRIBLE, nobody made a good 2 door hardtop at a reasonable price. (I can’t speak for the convertible. It was just dumb. But then again, people bought Sebrings).

The difference is that you don’t get paid by the end user.

Actually, it could. All Uber needs to do is stop paying drivers directly. Uber charges drivers pennies an hour to have the app open, passengers pay the driver directly.

There’s another big hurdle in that the easiest (currently only practical) way to do AI tells us absolutely nothing about why a decision was made. Current AI methods are actually pretty good at getting the right answer. But they’re absolutely horrible at explaining why that’s the right answer.