“Who here would rather have a Ridgeline over a Ram?”

Of course it looks like the Pilot. It’s based on the Pilot.

You say that like it’s a bad thing. Vans are awesome. Oh, and sorry about your penis.

The problem with craigslist is you get shady dealers with a listing like “2012 Mercedes C250 $2000,” and private sellers with “1999 Hyundai Accent $6000.” Unless you called every one of them and asked what they’re smoking, then you really won’t have a clue.

Spicy.

Yeah except science says traffic congestion only improves briefly when you add more lanes. Within a couple months people adjust their routes and methods of transport and you end up with more cars on the same road taking the same amount of time to reach their destination. The only way more lanes helps is if they add so…

I guess I just don’t get the point of tying up 100% of the cost in an non liquid asset when I could pay someone 3% to borrow that same amount and make 7% interest investing that amount elsewhere.

Honestly Patrick I don’t know that you, or the article, make anything resembling a point, much less a good one. If the problem with taking out a loan to buy a car is that you end up paying monthly on an asset that depreciates, leasing a car is way worse because you don’t end up with an asset at all unless you buy out…

Much like a car that’s used primarily as a reliable means of transportation. In this case a loan payment is just a payment for a service you need.

Why didn’t you just type Dallas Fort Worth to begin with?

Tiny pieces of cardboard that children valued as a commodity for about a 10 month span somewhere in the mid 1990s. Considering how objectively bad the author’s financial literacy situation seems to be I wouldn’t be shocked if they did think such a thing would be a sound investment.

Do people worry about the depreciation on thier phone, computer, laptop, TV, refrigerator, washer/dryer, air conditioner, lawn mower, snow blower, etc...

You paid to have the car as an experience, not as a thing. Was it worth the experience? I’m assuming yes? Could have spent more for a better experience. Could have spent less for a shittier one. Whether you’re putting up with a shitty experience while saving for a new better experience, making loan payments on a good…

You don’t seem to understand ‘investing’ or ‘opportunity cost’

I don’t think your thought process makes total sense. The car would have depreciated the same amount whether you took a loan or bought it outright. Basically, you paid $835 in installments for the ability to buy a car right away.

If KBB was telling you that an RX-8 was $3,500 then you were probably looking at trade-in values. That’s the problem with KBB, there are 3 values, and most consumers don’t understand. There’s how much you’d get on trade-in which is the wholesale value, there’s how much you’d expect to pay when buying from a…

maybe instead he should accept he will never “go off-roading” and that the illusion of adventure offered by SUVs is exactly how car makers convince sad, pathetic people to buy their wallowy oversized boring hatchbacks.

you want adventure? get a back pack and a plane ticket. you want to wallow around in an oversized…

I’m with you. Maybe I’m a bit jaded in that I grew up an airline brat and still fly frequently so I’ve flown like a billion times, but my response to this article is twofold—duh, and why?!

Oh fuck off with that nonsense. You don’t need to see the car they “designed and built and manufactured” because they’re not claiming that they can do those things. The “I’d like to see you do better” argument is the scum on the bottom of the cesspit of bad defenses against criticism. Tesla’s stated purpose is to…

All cars with rain sensing wipers can be set to off manually or any of the various intervals you are already used to, besides the auto option.