Or you can really fail upwards, even do it deliberately, like Donald has done:

When I hit 85 in a couple decades plus, this will be possibly an NP.

I think they’d have to prove it was absolutely intentional otherwise half the employees in the country would be facing lawsuits by their employer.

Same here. Like, magnitudes bigger.

What’s your industry?  I think it’s bullcrap that the guy was fired for this.  Unless this was the straw that broke the camel’s back in a long line of mistakes, I think it’s too harsh.

Please do share with the class...

I made a bigger mistake at work $$$ wise, did not get fired.

If you’re a poor or just cheap i.e. fiscally conservative...then sure. But no 100K is definitely not “just” broken in. Take off the ‘in’ part.

Thats why anything over 100k is on the budget lots and high interest lots. Fine for your secondary use car or David Tracy but not for anyone with means as their primary is the point I was making.  It's OK to drive one and daily it but let's not get carried away with "low miles".  That's just goofy.

I don’t know about $6,400. It’s clean and should have a lot of life left in it, but there is nothing remarkable about these cars beyond being big and inexpensive. In that way it’s a more modern iteration of the Malaise Era boats that had little going for them beyond their size. $5,000 is a more reasonable price to…

Dudes, 100K is not low miles. Not 20 years ago, not 10 years ago and not in 2022 either.  Thats the official mileage of "shits about to wear out on the regular" .   >75K low mileage.

I don’t know, but i’m thinking some extra labor to fix the exhaust since I’m assuming it was cut out? A new downpipe and O2 sensors and whatnot would add up

Jalopnik is super strange.  It’s a car enthusiast site where no one actually works on cars.  I’d be straight piping that Fit with duck tape and bailing wire before I’d pay $3000.  I can’t see a scenario why it would cost $3000 for a replacement converter plus labor.  Heck, the thieves already did half the work.

Too easy, obviously.

I would absolutely fix the Fit, assuming it’s in decent shape otherwise.

2008 5 speed Fit, CARB compliant (meaning, higher quality) replacement cat assembly : Walker pn#82893 is $575.79 at Rockauto.com, before shipping and 5% part discount.

“The catalytic converter had been stolen, and that would only be about $3,000 to fix”

It depends on the car.

At this point I would be highly suspicious of any company formed under the auspices of a SPAC. They seem inherently scammy and I suspect they’re going to become illegal some day after a bunch of powerful people manage to lose a ton of cash on one, instead of taking it from other fools.

This totally ignores the value of your time and wear and tear on a vehicle.

I’m as much of a car nut as the rest of us, but no matter how hard I try I can’t bring myself to really get excited about the *modern* Porsche brand like I can about older Porsche. I can’t really figure out why, because they’re truly all-around incredible machines, look great, still offer a wonderful manual or…