I’d actually be quite surprised if the lease agreement permits the assignment of the lease without the consent of the lessor. In this case, the lessee is likely still responsible for the lease payments (at least until the final payment) and there may be other lessee obligations until the final legal transfer of the…

I imagine that a 60 day supply of new cars for a Fiat/Alfa dealer is like 5 vehicles.

Honestly, I think it’s because fasteners such as screws are expensive, they they are typically bought as cheaply as possible with anti corrosion coatings (which don’t look as nice, but still better than rust). There are decorative bolts, but they cost even more and may or may not be as corrosion resistant. It’s often…

OK, first off, he says regularly commuting to see his parents, not daily.

For 13k, I do not want a nest of wiring, a mercilessly hammered radiator, and other issues staring at me every time I open the hood, which is probably going to be often.

BMW E39. Open hood, unclip air filter housing cover, replace air filter.

Ironically, this guy might be the one person who needs to set up an non-Montana LLC to purchase and register his cars.

My co-worker, I swear the only guy in the world with an X5 fetish, owns an Imola Red E53 and an Estoril Blue E53 along with a couple of E70s. Both E53 are completely top spec’d, the nicest X5s one could have purchased in their given model years, like this one. And I can tell you second hand that those vehicles never,…

No, God No.

It works great until the government that signed the deal gets overthrown, and the thing you spent a billion dollars on gets blown up in the process.  Trying to erase history has left China incapable of learning from it.

LOL - my Grandfather was the same. He passed on a nice house to my Mom, but he and my grandmother spent all the rest. My grandmother literally took her last IRA distribution just before she died. Though being that generation, they had excellent pensions so were not so dependent on saving (though they saved a decent…

Maybe, if he could actually easily afford this “splurge”.

First gear: I learned the hard way about loans.

Taking out a loan to buy a depreciating asset isn’t optimal

The Explorer hybrid should suit you fine.  I’m sure that a plug-in version will be available in due time.

Now that stop-start is unavoidable in a new vehicle, a hybrid is a no-brainer.

“You will go over the rockies” ... eventually. You will have trouble with maintaining anything resembling the speed limit given your car now has about 120 horsepower. You will piss everyone else off, including truckers, especially when you decide you need knobby tires and a roof tent that you never use while you drive…

Yep, all true. Convertible hard tops have some disadvantages, like more weight, mechanical complexity, and taking up more space. But ragtops have lots of drawbacks, too: they’re expensive to replace (and you will have to replace it), you really need to mostly park them indoors, you’ve got to be careful where you park…

All these reasons are why you have four cars at your Newport cottage and four others at your Palm Beach place, not counting the estate wagon for the help.

A roof box is a good solution for stuff even when you aren’t sleeping. Opens things up inside, less crap to fly around inside if there ever should be an accident.