This. So much this... I would much rather have a decent cloth seat over leather, or worse, vegan leather.

I drove an ‘82 Fifth Avenue when I was in highschool... the interior looked exactly like this. Friends loved it when I drove because it was basically a rolling living room.

My Collection Of Cars Is Driving Me Bonkers!

I was really jazzed by this... this is exactly what more regions need to do. Then I saw this part:

And that’s wrong.

If you can’t wrap your head around the total cost of a car, don’t buy.

The market conditions don’t matter. Any dealer that ties the trade-in to a sale is a dealer that *everyone* should walk away from. The good dealers I’ve worked with understood that these are two different transactions.

This is really important.  I once helped a guy I knew with his gap insurance company, and his entire business prop was around increasing back office profits with next to nothing to do with helping people that need help closing that gap in an accident.  The dealers add a TON of markup and use it entirely as a guilt…

Kind of a good thing I’m voting with imaginary dollars and not real dollars.  Otherwise I’d have a Cube and a 911 this week, and that cheque I wrote to fix the roof would bounce.  NP.

“Just make a monthly budget and make sure your car payment fits into that budget.”

Yeah…I’m going to hope that “advice” from a dealer is ignored for this slide show. It’s not advice. It’s profit management.

I kinda love it. It’s a Cube, which are super cool, and the paint work is actually pretty awesome. The car is basically saying “look at me! I’m weird!” in the best way possible. I would hear “WTF did you buy?” and have no choice but to smile. It would be so awesome.

If it’s any consolation, that likely was the result of lawyers, not reason.

It’s cool, but not $7500 cool.  ND.

The one thing I’ve learned from this: enthusiasts - at least those that post to Jalopnik - are likely pretty good drivers.

Yay!  Shitty one sided articles for clicks!

But how would Jalopnik shit on Tesla today?

You can probably look at household income differences too.

From what I understand, the NTSB advises that over 4” is dangerous for all cars. So that’s likely a good barometer. It doesn’t take long to find other instances of Teslas that had the same failure as described here after travelling through that amount of water. Which is why I’m pretty sure the owner isn’t telling…

Yeah... that’s dumb on a whole new level.  Though... I’m pretty sure they can control the wipers through the steering wheel in those cars.