This is why its so easy to get under water. You payment isn't paying down your principle much in the first years.

You should really do a post on present values, interest rates, risk-free rates to show just how much money people are losing when they finance a car at any interest rate. I don´t think they realize how little of their primary payments actually pay down their principle

It´s also massively harder to get underwater on a used car than a new one. Impossible if you buy it in cash, which 99% of the time isn´t possible on a new car

If you're bad with money or rich, yes. The only thing that depreciates faster than a new AMG is a night of strippers and blow. 100x on the "interest bearing debt on rapidly depreciating asset" comment.

My sister had a '97 Gran Marquis she inherited from Grandma. Low mileage and pristine. An F150 backed into it, crumpled the hood, cracked a headlight and punctured the radiator. Could've been drivable for about $50, but it was totaled due to already having such a low value as a used car. If am old, old car was…

I'm significantly more afraid of encountering white trash than any other race. Maybe it's because I'm from the Midwest, but it's the white trash meth heads you see most often doing crazy shit like this. And they're the ones always carrying.

A7, A5 Sportback, TT sportback. When does the A3 sedan sportback?

It's America's most unreliable cars, now managed by Italians.

Then you're obviously not the target for this app. Or valets in general.

I go to Indiana University and we have a huge population of students from China. This is a pretty tame car. R8s and Maseratis are common fare. My friend was roommates with a kid from Shenzhen freshman year (mandatory dorms first year - the great equalizer). This kid had a Quattroporte and every weekend he and his…

My friend and I were flipping cars in high school, bought a $700 e36 325i. Serpentine belt snapped on Highway, so we left it at a gas station in Indy and walked to NAPA (30 mins)

At least they can locate the driver. Good thing it wasn't a cab or metro

so outside of Russia we swallow sinkholes? I don't think the joke fits.

Didn't know this was happening until I stumbled upon it walking home from class. My weekend just got so much more exciting.

No. It has to do with conflicts of interest now that Mercedes is launching a car that could "potentially" compete with the Model S and future smaller Tesla "In some demographics".

Wow, I used to buy and sell cars off Craigslist all the time. This is scary. He was just another college kid doing what we do to get by and some psycho decides his life is worth a couple of grand. What a completely fucked society we live in.

You've obviously never driven the autobahn. It's not well maintained. It's narrow, usually no shoulder to speak of and the pavement is often much rougher than in the US. The Italian Autostrada and Spanish highways are impeccably well maintained... But then again Germany didn't suffer from the construction boom and…

350z. After growing up thinking these cars were the absolute shit, I was severely disappointed when I finally got to drive one last year.

It took me a second but then I swallowed my gum laughing. Your wit has pleased my dorky sense of humour.

Touché.