Exactly. This is just a damn good looking car.

I originally HATED it too, in that same reptilian way, but around day 200 or so, it started to become a comforting part of the routine. Sort of like sunrise...the way to tell yourself that another day had passed. 

Classic! Gotta watch out for those of us who don’t know what to do with all that power. 

Oh man, I visited Washington for the first time last fall. Y’all drive so slow. I was dying the entire time.

Over the holidays I had a BMW 530 as a rental. Second day driving it, I glanced at the numbers in the HUD after merging onto the highway and was at 112. And I wasn’t even really getting on it...just had the accelerator may 3/4ths of the way down. The thing was smooth as butter, and even in sport mode, was mostly quiet.

It seemed like a nice price to me too. Great engine, a unique badge, and appears to have been maintained with care. 

Yeah, exactly. I’d say it’s pretty common, at least for families with children, for both drivers to need a lot of overlap in the usability of their cars. Without kids, sure, you can get a bit more specialized, but as Tom mentioned, there’s still the issue of preference. Someone may not want to DD a pickup just because…

I’d really be curious about why KBB is so far off on certain newer vehicles.

The issue with the rebates is that lower income consumers may not be able to get the full value of those incentives (and those are precisely the customers who need sub-35k cars).

Ok, I didn’t want to get into the tax incentives thing, because my post was already rambling for too long. But I was thinking about exactly the issue you raise, which is that at lower income levels, not all consumers can get full value from the credit (and those are exactly the consumers who likely are shopping for…

There are too many hurdles right now. Electric cars are too expensive, too novel and require too many changes to existing routines to achieve wide-scale adoption.

There are a few out there that do this (RetroSound makes a 1.5 DIN that would be very at home in a 90s GM vehicle), and there are a few companies that make radios with 50s/60s design language. But you’re mostly getting Bluetooth and AUX inputs with these, not full CarPlay/Android Auto. 

Exactly. I know I’m not the first to observe this, but your choices in aftermarket radios seems to be “designed by a 13-year-old hopped up on monster energy drinks” or “designed and assembled by the cheapest factory in China”.

They are definitely good doggos. I rate them 11/10 and 11/10 for a total score of 22/10. 

100%

I feel like Rob is testing us this week. Wasn’t Monday’s offering the shitty Vette with a viper body kit?

I don’t think most of us American jalops would disagree with your general perspective.

Lol!

Yup, same here. Usually the second refresh does the trick. 

Exactly this. The financial/employment impact of the pandemic and related downturn has very much been focused on low wage earners (the likely market for compact cars), while upper income workers have so far been largely unscathed (a much higher percentage of high wage jobs can be done remotely).