“Invoice price” is in no way representative of what dealers are paying for their vehicles. If you believe that is a true representation of what the dealer cost of a vehicle is, you are going to be paying a lot more for a purchase or a lease than you should be.

You might want to include the information from his own Facebook page where he is pictured with the same gun he has in the video, including footage of him firing at random houses out of a car window. We had an 8 year old African American boy and 16 year old African American girl killed by random bullets last week, and…

The intent is to kill. You fire until the target is no longer a threat and, unlike television, when someone is shot they don’t immediately fall down and stop moving or firing their weapon. 

Shouldn’t you be referring to him as the Idiot in Chief? You know, to be respectful.

Someone remind me why are we bailing out the airlines again.

Starred for the rant :)

Not in my opinion, no. There is always going to be some luck involved in creating a successful business let alone becoming a billionaire. I think the difference between those you mentioned and Elon Musk, is that Musk has always operated more like a confidence man than the others. He’s never been open about anything,…

Elon Musk is not a genius. It’s a billion to one shot he ever got his company (somewhat) functional, and you will never convince me it wasn’t just incredible luck. This poor kid has two morons for parents who are going to treat him like a science experiment. 

Depending on the brand, it can be just as easy to get rid of your leased vehicle. My last 3 vehicles have all been lease transfers. There are several listing services available to transfer in and out of leases. Some manufacturers, such as GM, won’t let you transfer out of state, but most have pretty easy processes, so…

This is the only way to make the residual value on a Giulia even worse. I bet they beat their record 38% 36/10k residual. No one is going to lease one, but I still want to see the numbers.

Your lease isn’t with the dealership. It’s with the leasing company which is usually the financial arm of whatever brand you are leasing. We are turning in my wife’s (terrible) Nissan Murano in next month. If the dealership doesn’t take it, I’ll be parking the car in the dealer’s lot, putting the keys on the manager’s…

Now do Kavanaugh.

Not in this state. It’s an “at will” employment state, so unless she can prove she was fired for something like being a member of a protected class, she’s screwed. If she has an employment contract, she might have a case, but very few of those are ever written with to favor employees. She’s better off leaving that…

Where I live they decided it would be a great idea to pave over travel lanes and put in bike lanes. They also have a trail system, some of which runs alongside the roads. “Real” cyclists don’t use the bike lanes, preferring to ride in the roadway, sometimes alongside the bikers using the bike paths. They also fail to…

Most people who are prepared, use fuel stabilizers and rotate their stores. You can get at least 12 months, and sometimes 24. 

This is one reason I have always leased. The depreciation is never a guess, maintenance is included, and for me it’s deductible. It’s not for everyone, but it certainly isn’t as bad as a lot of people portray it when honestly calculating total cost of ownership.

I think they do. They count a lot of things as “sales” including putting cars into the dealership loaner pool. Some manufacturers got in trouble for fudging their numbers that way. 

Those people with expiring leases, such as my wife, don’t get to dictate the timing of when we get a new vehicle. Yes, we can extend the lease, but that also means (at least in our case) the possibility of having to purchase tires and brakes before turning in the lease. 

But (I think) Bloomberg actually is referring more to its price, which will be somewhere between $67,000 and $123,000, which is indeed very accessible, if you’re a regular reader of Bloomberg.

And still Hyundai/Kia dealerships are treating the Palisade and Telluride like they are made of solid gold.