Not entirely. If the vehicle cannot run under it’s own power, you’ve got to deal with the insurance company and get it fixed to a point where it can drive under it’s own power. Then you’ve got to be able to drive it into your buyback site (dealer). Then you are eligible for the full buyback.

But there is mileage depreciation (I fully admit, that is much better than full depreciation, but it isn’t depreciation free that people keep saying). And if it get’s totaled, you are SOL. No buyback money for you. Just a shitty offering from the insurance company for way, way, way less than the buyback.

My state will not treat it as a trade in.

What about the owners with 1 year old cars? I’m out the $2,000 I paid in taxes on it. Primarily because I cannot really trade this vehicle in, so I cannot credit the taxes paid on it, towards the vehicle that will replace it. So I’m stuck paying for taxes all over again on the replacement vehicle. I have a high…

As a TDI owner, my main complaints were with the use of CTI Value instead of the Private Party Value. If they are using the Clean Trade In Value, I should get the tax benefits of actually trading the vehicle in. But it isn’t being processed this way, so not only did I pay taxes on my 1.5 year old vehicle, but I’m…

Using the vents as the main criteria for engine placement, and you haven’t mentioned the engine under the front bonnet?

$28,750 was what I paid for it new. It was 1.5 years old with 34,000 miles on it. No chance in hell they could have sold it for $28,000.

My last vehicle I traded in, I got a better value by trading it in over selling it. The best I could have sold it for was $23,500. That would have required waiting to find the right buyer and having to deal with all that. Realistically I expected to sell it for ~$22,000 so I wouldn’t of had to sit on it for very…

Almost always? Not really. Especially if your trade in is worth a hefty sum and you live in an area with a high sales tax rate on new vehicles.

“Pony car’s can’t turn!”

Contracting out manufacturing is irrelevant. I mean, we can go another step further back and say that Ford/GM/InsertCarBrandHere doesn’t process their own iron ore to create rolled steel. Ford doesn’t build their own headlight assemblies, they are bought from a parts supplier. VW doesn’t build their own ECU’s, they…

My main thought after watching was “What part of this clip really showcases the car?”

European towing standards are based on the driver having both common sense and a functioning brain. American towing standards are based on “Bubba, hold my beer”.

The 90's was only boring cars? Are you fucking high?

It’s a damn shame one won’t fit in my driveway without folding in the mirrors...

Yeah, see how well that argument works out when someone get’s killed and they are suing you because you were towing with a vehicle that says “Not rated for towing”.

I’ll give you a ‘77 Honda CB550 that is half-taken apart... or half-put together depending on your optimism.

These were the worst, because they were off-center by just enough to be irritating.

Center exhaust is horrible. Just go with the exhaust on the outside.

I assume they added a bed for utility, but then they put the exhaust right where a hitch would go? Yeah, I know, you can’t tow much with a Jetta.