We quite like my wife’s ‘18 CX-9 as well. I think the aesthetic styling of the front end must add ~4" of vehicle length with no real purpose other than looks. Bit empty zone in front of the transverse motor.

Precisely.  I can’t understand why people want a permanent, adult sized 3rd row that only gets used once in a while.  The CX-9 has the formula right, a 6-foot adult can still sit back there in a pinch.  For kids, it’s fine 100% of the time.

Why the hell would you do this.

Jesus christ this website has such ignorant authors.  Without comments on here, nearly every article would completely mislead all readers.

Don’t come at him with any of that real, factual data. He’s gonna keep posting about how terrible EVs are no matter what the reality is.

I don’t know about that. Around me it seems like they settle in around the 70-80% value and hold there for damn near ever. I wanted polaris ranger, 800 or 900. The price of used ones has been steadily going upwards over the last 5 years, from good-condition bargains at 6 or $7000, and now they are well over 10k.  The…

THEY WENT UNDERNEATH A CABLE YOU DUMBASS. Insanely dangerous.

I presume it is a derogatory sarcastic remark back to someone who is complaining about something. As in, if you have an issue with script, set, production that Jeff doesn’t agree with, he’ll make fun of you for complaining about how your vagina hurts.

agreed.

Yeah but you still, STILL, cant get the highest power engines in a short cab, short bed, with actual sport truck suspension.  Look at the zero-60, this lightning is still faster.

Faaack, I want this, badly.  But it would have to be half price for me to justify it.

I know, but thats mostly a temporary anomaly caused by the chip shortage, and manufacturers prioritizing production of more expensive models. I think in 2020 and before it was mid to high 30k average.  We’ll see if it ever returns to sub 40k though....

I’d say that Michigan makes it pretty easy to buy a car. If you buy used, just make sure the seller doesn’t write the sale price on the title. Then you write in whatever the lowest plausible amount is, and pay 6% on that. You make a reservation online at the Secretary of State (our DMV), waltz in, pay your tax and…

I guess to be accurate, I’m not sure my Alltrack increased in value by 8 grand. I got it for 6k off msrp initially, and now two years later carvana paid me above original msrp for it.

SO what? 21.5k is quite damn close to 20 grand.  An no options?  It already comes with power everything, apple car play on an 8" screen, heated seats, and more.  Oh and 40mpg in a small pickup.

True, but a lot of folks can. And apparently 17 million of us can afford to buy a $36,000 car each year in the US.

You do you, but as a counterpoint: My family has had 8 VWs, and only one was at all unreliable. I only just sold my ‘19 Golf Alltrack (w/ 6-yr, 72k warranty) because Carvana offered me stupid money.

Intelligent move!

I would second that. I was looking for a good mazda 3 myself, but they get rusty fast here in Michigan. Nabbed a low-mile Jetta 2.5L 5-spd instead, meh.

Americans buy what, 17 million cars a year? At an average price north of 36 grand? These kind of folks are who this article is geared towards.