Dude, you’re reaching. So if I walk into Shelby today, and they happen to have only F-150s and Mustangs in their shop, then that means that they don’t work on Cobras anymore? That’s a random point in time view, and all it tells me is that no customers with a C6 needed any work done on that particular day. Go look at…

Hmmm, so you’re a real engineer that doesn’t even have the 6th grade vocabulary to know how to spell “afficionado”? You treat “the internet” like this nebulous place. You don’t have to believe “everything that you read on the internet.” However, when even a cursory Google search returns so many CLEARLY valid sources,…

Are you using the same Google as me? Are you sure that you spelled it correctly?

Yup, it feels a lot better than letting baseless claims and false accusations sit out there. Misinformation is dangerous. And you’ve likely learned nothing from this.

That is ridiculous. You could have just gone for option 3: Instead of taking the 0% subvented rate from the manufacturer, take the $4k off and then get approval through your own bank for only 2-3%.

You know, all you have to do is open a new tab and google for 10 seconds before looking like a doofus on a national forum. Seriously, infinite information available to you if you just go type  “sailboat faster than wind” which takes all of no time at all.

I do know. He is dead wrong. People are buying used cars all day long without putting money down. On top of that, many are rolling in underwater amounts on these used cars.

That’s a patently false statement!

You can’t judge an owner based on monthly payment. A monthly payment is made up of an interest rate, a number of months, and a loan amount. So if your truck payment is at 6% over 84 months, then it isn’t as good of a deal as someone that’s financing a cheaper car over only 36 months. That isn’t what’s happening in…

This is shortsighted advice. Debt is a tool to be used strategically. Why would you pay cash for an asset when you can get a secured loan with a 3% APR? You’d be stupid to use your money to avoid that kind of interest rate that is almost as low as inflation.

And obviously, you’re in the minority, since 99% of buyers don’t care about a manual transmission. Even on sports cars, people are preferring the car to not have a clutch pedal. What’s that saying again? Data isn’t the plural of anecdote?

I feel like he was using artistic license to hammer the point home. I’ve seen 48 month leases, but I’m not aware of 60 month leases.

He is saying 60 month LEASES. You are talking about 96 month FINANCING. Those are 2 separate ways of attaining a vehicle.

You could have run those same HPDE’s in a soft top convertible like the new MX-5, for example, and similarly never been stopped. They treat a convertible hard top JUST LIKE a convertible soft top, because a convertible hard top does not provide rollover protection that is similar in any way to a fixed roof. You could…

A hardtop convertible is still considered a convertible by the sanctioning bodies, and is still held to the broomstick test. Go to NASA, SCCA, or anywhere else and you will still be required to have adequate rollover protection if you have a non-fixed roof. Here is PCA’s stance, for example, which seems to back up my…

Why the hardtop for racetracks? You point at the Miata RF, but with that car, for example, there is NO way to make it race track compliant. A soft top at least still has space and fits over a roll bar. Hard tops do not.

And the 911?

The Z4 had an M version, genius. And if the Z4 isn’t enough with 340hp, then why haven’t you been ranting about the 911 starting with only 370hp at $90k? You are just digging a deeper hole, showing that you know nothing about cars.

That 2% is because of the crossover-pocalypse and truck-pocalyse. People that were buying Civics 15 years ago as the practical choice are now buying CR-V’s and Escapes. Even on performance vehicles, you’re seeing it die out. Only 1/4 of Corvettes have manual transmissions, so even on models that would make sense with…

As you’ll notice from your infographic, that’s at greater than 15 degrees Celsius, which is minimum 60 degrees Fahrenheit. So, thanks for proving my point! You’ll notice that I specifically called out “Below 50 degrees” as well as “freezing temperatures”. If you’re driving winter tires around when it’s 60-70 degrees,…