I would just go out and buy a CPO X5 for the same price. Wait, that is exactly what I did. The only downside is a little less cargo space and a barely usable 3rd row but we are a family of 3 so it is plenty big enough for us, even when grandparents are in town.

“because I don’t like that one” - my wife, whose car preference is generally based on her social media feed, like so many other typical car buyers

Explorers launched with some pretty big quality issues, for one.

You’re comparing sale price of one car in Mexico to sale prices of different cars in the US...

Also, the Accord Sport 2.0T is more like $27K

Oh, and also, the Accord is FWD and the Stinger is RWD

Even in that hypothetical, starting with a replica still makes more sense. Whether you redesign anything or not, you can still start with all new components rather than ones with seventy years of wear and tear. Metal really does lose some of it’s strength as it’s repeatedly stressed, and there are some legal…

In a round about way the 737 Max and Covid may be extending the service life of 747s.

Those are blinker fluid filling ports!

The end product, I understand. Building it out of an original instead of a replica, I do not.

Not all that well I recon.

Seriously, doesn’t his town have teens in need of a shitbox? Shine ‘em up and move ‘em out. If you can afford to register and service 5 cars you can swing 48 month loans on 2 used cars at 10k each. One is for the love of your life and the other is for your work. You dickin’ with bald tires north of Wall? 

It’s also not all on the dealers. The automakers themselves, actually mostly the luxury ones, have been offering less and less value to the customer. It becomes harder every year to justify 70k for an Audi when the mode “pedestrian” brands keep stepping up. Yeah, you still don’t quite get the sparkle and you certainly…

Cavalier: goodbye
Camry: keep, cars with white paint are easy to freshen up and look decent
Ranger: probably a keeper. should be good for a few more miles
F-150: regretfully, let it go
Rodeo: let it go before it turns into a bigger money and rust pit.

This is the correct answer, but I bet it’s not the one that anyone on this site wants to hear.

Has this site always been hoarder-centric or has there been a significant uptick in this sort of post?

I do understand what you are saying. I think transparency in pricing would help with dealerships. We are trained to accept that invoice pricing is what dealers pay for a vehicle, which is just a small part of the actual cost. There are volume bonuses, holdback, “hidden” incentives.

My complaint about the pricing I’ve…

The point he is making is that the lease pricing right now is more expensive than purchasing.

I disagree, no one exactly knows what the future value of Tesla is. Sure it has the battery capacity. They have a competitive advantage there but I don’t see that as sustainable. Let’s suppose others buy Tesla’s batteries, that is a smart decision all the way around, but it also turns Tesla into a automotive supplier…

Picked up my company car Nissan Rogue on Monday.
In the interest of saying only nice things: It has bigger cup holders than my old Subaru and it came with a (miserable) first aid kit.
 
I’ve bitched about this change over here a lot, because I’m whiny little shit, even though it’s a company car. Now that I’ve seen the…

Truck buyers want the authentic brand name, that rugged outdoorsy feel those names combined with “truck” cultivated for decades. That blue collar name even with executive suite pricing.

Here’s the deal with that - the people (mostly men I’m assuming) who want luxurious trucks don’t want a luxury badge because it’s not “manly” enough. So as a result you have $80k high end trim levels on very common half ton pickups which these same people are happy to buy.