For much of the working population, simply providing food, clothing and shelter for themselves is beyond their means.

In areas with winter and road salt, you wouldn’t find many cars from 2000 in good condition.

Of course they focus on the payment. Savings are non-existant. It’s not like buyers today are considering either paying in full from savings or financing. It’s always going to be financed / leased. Monthly payment is (in their minds) the only thing they need to negotiate.

Probably not a huge problem for new car dealers / manufacturers. On an eight year loan some of these repo cars will be relatively old and with high mileage. Not the kind of vehicle you’d cross-shop with new.

What can they afford? Average new car is over $30k now, with wages stagnant since Reagan.

Darwin would be pissed.

I thought Chevy invented them as a way to keep a sleeping elderly person from falling over.

I have one of these stupid things in my Forester. So now I have three mirrors, a rear window and a little TV screen all giving me the same information.

I’m betting that the people who were too lazy to check their mirrors without the camera and would hit things in reverse are still going to be too lazy to check the…

Don’t worry about it. There are plenty of GT86's out there. It’s packs a longer wheelbase on a shorter overall vehicle length and has a vastly stiffer chassis.

There are easier ways to get trucks for components, but this crew doesn’t sound like a bunch of masterminds.

Why not just run a feeder series in the southern hemisphere so there is no ‘off’ season. F1 sponsors a team and buys two seats. The first and second finishers get the seats - every year.

I haven’t looked into the details, but does this deal make sense if you have multiple cars in your household? You’d still need to have other insurance policies covering the other vehicles / drivers. What if you carry insurance with coverage higher (or much higher) than your state’s compulsory minimums? In that case…

Would it make more sense to put the Prius body on a chassis suitable to the Cummins?

I thought I saw ET urinating, but this is better.

It looks vaguely like ET urinating on the Port of Miami.

Although the extra 0.2" of seat width is nice, it doesn’t help me much. I am not a gigantic human being. I fit quite easily between the armrests, but I am about 24" wide at the shoulder with my arms at my side (leaving at least 6" of overflow).

I have to book window seats and then have to kind of twist to allow my row…

Got Kinja’s there.

The owner in that case had the dealer fill the tires with nitrogen to the proper pressure just two days before the accident.

Many of these guys just stick a DOT sticker on a fake helmet. I will never understand the point of that.

You’re trusting in the same insurance companies who set the safety standards for everything else.

People calling him out on his project could certainly have been doing so out of concern for his safety.