I can see a fully optioned one being $60k, but not starting there. Unless the Z4 is also getting a major price bump (the 2016 35i started at $57k) I think it would be a hard sell for the average buyer who can actually afford it. At $60k+ most buyers will expect a Lexus badge on the front end, or will be looking at the…

Yes, but the Lexus LX outsold it 2:1 last year. Fans of a badge or nameplate will pay the premium, but your average consumer who can afford the vehicle is looking at Lexus once the price climbs up.

I agree. I think it will most likely come in around the $40k-$50k, not to separate it from the BMW version, but to keep a Toyota badge on it. If base price is over $50k they’ll sell to diehard fans who have the money, but average buyers looking for a sporty coupe will pass it by for the Lexus RC.

I’ve got a tech as we speak, trying to overhaul a Boxster bumper for paint work. Flat rate says 3.0 hours, he’s been at it since 11am this morning...

Flat rate. Most OEMs specify how long an operation should take. Doesn’t matter if it takes longer or shorter to perform, that’s the time the tech gets per the OEM. Now the price per hour can fluctuate, but the flat rate should remain the same regardless of location.

These offset crash videos show what speed differential does. Most claims I look at involve one or more vehicles being stationary, since 75% are driveable still. The point is drivers are ignorant to how vehicles should behave in a collision and these videos are useful tools to help them understand why things did or…

People aren’t well educated on what airbags are for. Most people assume airbags should go off any time the vehicle is in motion and they get hit. People also love to say the car that rear ended them was going 35-45+ MPH when all they have is some minor deformation of the reinforcement beam. I pull up videos like this…

I love showing these videos to my customers when they claim they were going 45+ MPH during their accident, they show how much damage is really done at moderate speeds.

Agreed the dip in torque stunk, but in my real world driving of curvy mountain roads in Central Virginia I had plenty of fun sticking to 3rd and 4th gear to keep it in the sweet spot and not speed too much.

Wife has a 2017 Civic with 1.5T. Gas is high for us now at $2.35 a gallon. We live 4 miles from her main office, but she drives about 900 miles a month to visit patients at home or travel to satellite offices. She gets mileage for all those trips which pretty much offsets our fuel costs since I have a company car with…

I agree we need shorter sets for opening acts. But what we really need are more co-headlining tours with no openers. I saw Brand New and Modest Mouse together in Chicago back in 2016, each band got roughly an hour and a half set. Concert started at like 7:30, I was able to walk back to my apartment before midnight.

I’ve always thought part of the reason full size pickups and SUVs have seen prices rise so much since 2009 was due to CAFE regulations. Raise the price on them to make more profit per unit, but sell less units to help meet CAFE. Apparently people don’t mind paying $60,000 for a truck, so maybe that wasn’t actually why…

I’m your sons age, so your point is exactly what my grandfather told me while I was growing up. My wife drove her Camry to 260k miles before we decided to get a newer (safer) car. We could easily afforded a small luxury SUV, but wanted a small hatchback since we could put that extra money each month into savings and…

For what it’s worth, premiums vary a lot based on limits. That premium seems cheap, but those limits aren’t high. $25k for property damage? Better not be at fault for an accident that totals a car or two.

My wife and I bring in more than $350 a day and I can’t find a justifiable reason to spend $30,000 on a car... Except our most recent dealer experience, which made me want to up the budget to luxury cars just to not deal with sleazy salesmen. Hopefully 2017 Hondas last a long time so I can stave off the next dealer…

Something I’ve been wondering about with these is what are they programmed to do when faced with deer/raccoon/random animal crossing their path. Most humans attempt to avoid the animal and end up causing a crash that’s worse than if they hit the animal. Are these cars going to just run over them, or are they going to…

I hate speed and red light cameras as a driver. That said, as a homeowner who’s yard backs up to a road through my city, I’m trying to find out how to get a speed camera added by me. The sign changing the speed limit from 35 MPH down to 25 MPH is on my corner and at peak times of the day, drivers regularly go through…

Can confirm. I totaled a 2013 S550 in 2016, car only had about 36,000 miles. Window sticker in glove box said it was $115,000, three years later it was only worth $46,000.

I believe this. I just finished working an insurance claim on a G90, and I honestly can’t see how a sensible consumer would choose a 7 Series/A8/S class over this car. Not only was it less complicated from a repair standpoint, but the difference in interior quality was far less than the price gap would suggest. I can…

I only do that when I’m trying to total out a car... for the most part “recycled” parts, as upper management likes to call, are decent 70% of the time. Sometimes it’s cheaper to buy new though, used doors factor in glass, handles, trim panels, stuff that they could take off and sell separate from the metal shell.