This is a good price from a market perspective. You will find cheaper 996s out there, but they are generally automatics, have 2-3x the mileage this one has, don’t have maintenance histories and have less desirable color combinations. This as the full leather interior (an option many buyers want), a low-mileage engine…

Yup. I like manuals as much as the next guy around here. But in this case, the guy has a limited budget and needs the vehicle for his business (which means he needs low cost of ownership and reliability). Far better to open up the field by removing the 3-pedal requirement. 

My brother and I ran a lawn mowing business for a couple years. We used my parents’ Ford Escorts (one diesel, one gas) to tow a light utility trailer from Tractor Supply loaded with a riding mower (it’s been 25 years, so I don’t remember the size, but probably 42” or something), a push mower, a weed whip and other…

Also, doesn’t putting the motors in the wheels put them at greater risk of damage in an accident? I would assume that after the battery, the motors are one of the major cost items in an EV.

I voted CP, with the reasoning that this car might snag this price somewhere, but I have no interest in a top of the market Camaro.

We’ve only had it for two years and about 25k miles (bought new). It’s been trouble free for us so far, although obviously we haven’t had it that long. Some of the service is pretty expensive - I think the 30k service includes a transmission fluid change that is several hundred dollars (and from what I’ve read,…

Mach E is 43k, Model Y is 52k, Polestar 2 is 59k. All before any tax rebates. The E is massively cheaper (although I’m not sure the CRV/RAV4 are appropriate comparisons either - those both start a good bit cheaper)

The Macan starts in the 52s, Mach E starts in the 43s, and that’s before the 7500 tax rebate. 

I have one. It’s a solid car. But wagons are just not popular. Everyone would rather buy a Tiguan or an Atlas, I guess. Also, VW just has pretty steep depreciation in general. 

Wasn’t the “I am facing foreclosure” guy (who really was an avatar of the ‘08 collapse) a Kiyosaki disciple? 

I know the general consensus here seems to be to disagree with you, but I think you’re raising a very valid question. Essentially what we are going to see here, in a lot of industries, will be companies drastically reducing real estate and operations expenses and transferring those to employees.

Somewhere online you can see pictures of Mike Tyson’s Ohio mansion after it had been abandoned for a few years. The thing that struck me was the number of custom media built-ins throughout the house with VCRs and stuff like that still sitting there....because the technology was so obsolete and worthless that it wasn’t…

Amazing to think about the amount of money I’ve spent on now-obsolete technology in the last 25 years or so. And I’m generally a late adopter, because I hate spending more than necessary. 

I think the “number of screens” thing is the big factor here. Many of us who are olds remember the cart with the TV and VCR that would be wheeled from room to room at school. Now, I’m sure there is just a big flatscreen in every room in most schools.

Yeah, I would have voted CP had I not randomly seen a couple on Craigslist and looked into why in the hell a 20 years old ford SUV was being listed for $15k or something. 

Great point identifying this way of thinking as being a No True Scotsman fallacy. 

This is my thought as well. I’m not bothered by the lien. I just don’t know why — if my budget is in the high teens — I would buy this particular sedan. That price range picks up a whole range of relatively recent, relatively low-mileage vehicles across the spectrum.

Agreed. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, as this is a car I would have thought was super awesome in high school, but $4500 for a clean, relatively low-mileage example that could be easily maintained seems like a nice price to me. 

Seriously. Bolton’s oped today could be summarized as: “everyone but I, John Bolton, is an idiot.”

I read a better article than the one linked below a couple years ago that detailed all the sordid gossip between the two rich guys (I think the main point of contention was what degree of nepotism was permitted), but I couldn’t find that one, so this SEO special will have to do: https://www.distractify.com/p/cellino-an…