Easy. Negotiate purchase price. Then talk lease. To do that know two things - money factor and residual values. Once you have that information it is easy.

I'd go automatic, R/T, Scatpack. The Hellcat was overkill and I almost died driving it in the Portland monsoon.

Come on, free care is all about record of service (good for CPO / trade-in value "Look this car was cared for by us, here, TWICE!" And the chance to upsell "You know, Bob the door on your Jetta could go any minute. Our newest Jetta has an upgraded door hinge that'll last at LEAST 3 years."

Or NHTSA denies Aston's petition and they can't sell half the cars they have to offer and leave the U.S. market...

I concur with the other posters and contribute the following artwork.

good stuff. I cover the more mundane less-sexy world of autos + policy.

Funny. DOT is already moving to make DSRC mandatory in future vehicles. They published the ANPRM just last night. Also, the FCC and other gov players have been talking about the 5.8 spectrum since....1995 IIRC for use w/ vehicle tech. Now the broadband carriers and auto suppliers are arguing if they can share it…

Why in the hell do we continue to focus on the notion that business has to take place in a single location where people amass to....stare at computer screens...the same ones they have at home. Granted, I know "but service industries...can't serve coffee from home.." I get it, but living in DC and sitting in a cube…

You assume parents put safety ahead of all other considerations?

IIHS is a safety institute. Their focus is safety. They work for insurance companies. Personal injury is the highest cost to insurance companies. IIHS will give the best info to reduce the chance of human injury. Hence their limited scope and seemingly singular focus on safety in this list. They got it 100% as their…

there isn't talk there is an active rulemaking in progress regarding this very topic.

...the number of Facebook likes this post has. Which is indicative Of how the audience here feels about marketing.

CNN: "Authorities think the driver and the man on the back of the car know each other"

But don't you think at some point economies of scale take over and being that you are producing what amounts to a touch screen and letting the phone do the heavy lifting, their would be more monetary incentive to produce 100K of these at a small incremental cost rather than hold out for the 20K units at a higher cost?…

That presumes that most people will have a smartphone...which is probably true, but are automakers willing to end their native infotainment in hopes every buyer will posses hardware/software combo required to use the car's features. I agree with you 100% as I've written about this in the past saying exactly what you…

Do you think the car, to run android auto, will require various opt ins such as Google Now? Also, knowing the make, model and year provides a rather important piece of contextual information that was missing.

I'm with you here to a certain degree. While I can applaud the "cool" factor of finally having a somewhat coherent OS-based infotainment integration with smart phones, I have to ask what value does it add to me, the human driver?

Fires XX number of interceptors. Crap shoot on EKV. Hope for the best!

I'm not too fond of showing it off, but I have to say when I have guests over they notice it right away. Granted, I moved the location of the t-stat after buying the Next just to ensure that it was the first thing you see in my living room...

Nest owner here.