$25k is what you ask for a 20,000 mile, original owner one (and you still probably won’t get asking price). Not a 116k mile, 3 owner yawn-machine from yesteryear. These Mercedes aren’t collector worthy. I’ll let Hemmings take it away:

You should have read it, because it addresses your nonsense comment. There is $0 markup. TLDR: Difference between wholesale value and retail value isn’t markup, it’s the cost of asking the dealership to take the risk instead of choosing to take on that risk and effort yourself as a private seller. You have fundamental…

Trying to keep that Prius pointed straight down the strip looks like a nightmare. I swear that I’m seeing all 4 corners shimmy in different directions at any one moment.

And THERE’S the ad hominem of someone that realizes that they’re losing the argument. I was waiting for you, oh you sweet little logical fallacy you! Not that it matters, because it makes zero difference to the argument, but I don’t work at a dealership. I don’t work in sales or retail of any kind. I work in…

It’s not $9,000 of markup. Go to KBB. Go to NADAguides. Go to any pricing website whatsoever. You have very fundamental misconceptions about how car buying works.

That’s meaningless. If they got the car in a trade-in for $44,000 and have it listed for $53,000 (which it sold for the next day at full asking price, to a different buyer), then lying to someone that their engine is blown and you will give them $44,500 for their trouble isn’t doing them a favor. It’s attempting to…

It sold the next day to someone else for full asking price.

No, that’s not how it works. They were ripping him off at least $8,000 which is the discount that they wanted for the fraud around the “blown” engine. The car sold the next day for full asking price. The car is worth full market value, and they were trying to lie to get a discount.

Bull crap that they don’t work on C6 Vettes! This shop specializes in LSx performance. Their Google photos show them working on C6 Vettes. Their website shows a C7, and no shop in their right mind works on C7's exclusively. There are countless discussions and testimonials on Corvette forums of people going to AMP to…

Please show me where I’ve said ANYTHING besides 5 years as a time period? Stating 5 years has been the first time I brought up a time period whatsoever. If you have inferred otherwise, then those are your own assumptions creeping in.

Calling victory without actually haven won anything, attacking my methods instead of being able to disprove anything that I said, trivializing the source, etc. The laziest form of arguing, full of logical fallacies. It just goes to show how much you realize your comments are incorrect, but instead of admitting that…

I mean, I cited a source. For every example you have of an outlier, such as the Tacoma, WRX, Wrangler, etc. I can show you 100 different examples, as well as averages and trend lines, that prove my statement. Your singular outlier doesn’t invalidate the data, it’s just the exception that proves the rule. Yes, you can…

“Depreciation is the biggest and most often overlooked expense associated with purchasing a new car.”

I’m no Republican apologist, but in their defense, they did make it easier to file. We will see come next Spring, but the tax plan is supposed to ease the burden of preparation for many people.

The reason that it exists is because your employer knows what your income is, so they can withhold at your bracket, let’s say 24% tax rate because they earn $50,000 per year. But your employer doesn’t know what your spouse’s job is, or even if you’re married, or have 3 kids, which all affect your tax rate. Or that you…

That’s great, except that what “you consider” doesn’t jive with the commonly accepted definition by anyone of the tire. Toyo themselves classify the tire as “competition”, “racing” made of “high grip race compound” since they’re 100 treadwear, R compound tires:

R888R are race tires, dude. They’re 100 treadwear tires. Most tires that are 200 treadwear and below is a race tire, oriented towards competition driving.

No, not at all. The bikes weren’t selling. Every time that there’s a Harley article, all 15 people that bought a Buell come into a thread and claim that it would have saved the company.

Haha, right when I’m looking at 2003-2006 Mini Cooper S’!

Honestly, if mid-engine was that important to me, I would have gone Boxster or Cayman over MR2. I just can’t believe the accountant oversight that forced that thing to market over what it should have been.