I like those cars quite a bit and would love to own one. Unfortunately I’m 6'5" and when I sat in one at the Washington Auto Show recently, I barely fit.

Agreed, but it must be stock. When they stop making them, and the power-train warranties all lapse it’s going to be tough to find an unmolested one.

Plus let the tuner kids cull the herd a little and you will have instant rarity.

Actually, 400lbs of torque makes that little thing pretty fun. Too bad you can’t buy them outside of California.

hahaha...yeah some dealers are stingy with them and only reserve them for high-end clients. Gotta 3 series...tough luck, roll in with a 7 for an oil change... “here is your loaner sir.”

Neutral - I dunno if it is cheating or not and probably not super relevant to your average consumer. No one buys a BMW, Audi, or Mercedes because they sold more cars than the other guy last year. However, on the topic of loaner cars, they can be excellent values. Often they are well equipped and have low miles.…

Apparently the RS4 and the RS6 were leaked too:

Yes, it’s quite treacherous up here. Do be careful.

Seriously, I can’t tell them apart.

Soylendra gets beat up upon, but the program as a whole actually made the government money. You make enough loans and there’s bound to be a few that tank.

“The two most common things in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.” - Harlan Ellison

Aston Martin: Remaking the same car since 1999

so why is wall street down for the year?

2nd worse is when people go “durrrrr I have an SUV so it’s great in snow durrrr”. There’s a reason you dozens of those idiots off the side of the road when it snows, not realizing that a 15 year old Outback will probably outclass their car in deep snow and that tires are the only thing that matters while moving on low…

Your complaint doesn’t apply to this test.

Lol as someone who drive’s a ‘74 truck (which I love for all the right reasons), this is certainly true. Tune-ups every 15k? That’s some fancy machine you got there..

Mines: 2k for oil, 5k for sparks/distributor points, 10k for valve lash (manually set, no hydraulic auto-magical heeby-jeeby expensive new-fangled…

Scarier still is that lots of people brag that they’re going to give their 16-year-old the family’s old 2001 Expedition or Tahoe because “we want him to be safe.”

You’ll find no end of people (usually old white guys) who think old cars were built better “because you could work on them yourself and a parking lot fender-bender didn’t cost $2,000 to fix.” They’re totally looking at the past through rose-colored glasses and don’t remember that cars used to be easy to work on…

I also ended up with 2 car payments. Never again. One is paid off now and we will keep it until it falls apart. I basically regretted financing every vehicle I’ve ever owned but yet I still end up doing it. After the newness wears off I keep thinking “damn, I should have just kept the old one”. I’ll probably end up…

And of course college students have a high debt-to-income ratio. When your income is $0, it skews numbers a bit.