My brand loyalty lasted for two vehicles: Mazdaspeed3 and CX-7 - both purchased within a 12 month span. The Speed3 is gone (replaced by a Volvo V60 R Design) but the CX-7 will stick around a while.

I’ve owned a very wide range of vehicles over a wide range of model years. The only ‘brand’ loyalty I can claim: Honda…

I agree although I was implying cynicism/sarcasm in my post.

I hated it in the V60 Polestar...all of those other super nice upgrades and this shitty material all over the seats and steering wheel. Blech!

Maybe I should have used this: /sarcasm

If this lawsuit doesn’t work she’ll go after the tire manufacturer.

Denial can get you to spend a lot of money...

The #1 on that list wasn’t an actual ‘recall’ - Ford sent f-ing stickers to owners - they didn’t fix anything.

I learned quite a bit about ‘how money works’ when I didn’t have two nickels to rub together. One thing I learned real quick: Figure out the total cost of acquisition - that’ll tell me how much the ‘thing’ really costs. Then decide if I need/want the ‘thing’ enough to pay that much. Once I started doing that, the…

I hear you...but I actually know my credit score and I’m more interested in the total cost of the transaction. People hyperfocused on the monthly payment probably can’t afford whatever they’re trying to buy. People who can afford it are generally more concerned with the total cost. At least in my experience.

The whole premise of ‘monthly payment’ is a sketchy way of getting information out of a potential customer. You give me the price and I’ll let you know whether or not I’m a customer. They don’t need to know my credit score. I provide a narrow-ish range - if that’s not good enough, I leave. They need me, I don’t need…

I spent my first 30+ years in California. I never paid attention to door/roof design until I moved to Illinois. It’d only really take two inches of snow...easy to do if you’re driving around in the snow.

I don’t know about NY but 99% of IL people don’t bother to clear the roof of the car - they just drive until it…

Shall I list out all of the assumptions the auto industry has made that turned out to be wrong?

Just look at the design and ask yourself: If this thing sits in a parking lot for an hour during a snow storm...will I get snow dumped on my head if I open the back door? The answer: Definitely How about if you’re driving…

Tesla assumes that people who live in snowy regions are not buyers. Nothing more ‘awesome’ than opening the back door and getting snow dumped on your head.

“Sweet doors, bro! Too bad about the snow on your melon!”

As soon as the deal starts to get sketchy with unannounced add ons, I get up, thank them for wasting my time and leave. As long as people accept it, they’ll keep doing it.

It’s too bad he’s still alive.

I mean it’s just so, so, so blue. Really, really blue. Bluer than blue can be. The sort of blue which only the unhinged and the deranged demand. Which is exactly how seriously a car like this should be. Deride it as “smurfish,” or, if you’re being very obtuse, “a skittle,” but the truth of the matter is that it…

For 178k, you could build a better Jeep without a salvage title and still have plenty of money left over to shower your friends in champagne.

I would have bought the shit out of a 6 wagon...but Mazda US has decided that it would cannibalize the higher profit CX-5 so they won’t bring it over. I would have special ordered one and waited for it to show up...but that’s not an option.

I bought a 2015 Volvo V60 R Design because I got tired of waiting for Mazda to…

I bet if you let people go down range, they would.

The long and the short: Those two should be permanently ejected from football and brought up on relevant charges. There’s no excuse for what they did - even if ‘ordered from the sidelines’ becomes the ‘excuse’. These two cannot be trusted to do the right thing. If it came from the sidelines as a coordinated attack,…

I wonder if the hex wrench set is included in the sale...

Steer clear of this pile of s***. Front end body work, rebuilt trans at 58k, hacked up electrical system and, in spite of what he says - tons of ‘aftermarket shit’.