Damn, K5ING......put some miles on that thing. Those cars don’t even break in until like 150K miles.....

Bravo. Nominee for article of the month right here.

Geez, Ryan.....agenda much?

it’s just too ugly for me....can’t wash off the actual beige. I’ll wait for a sexier car, but ptgreenphone’s analysis is spot on.

exactly. I own 6 cars, and not one of them has less than 130K miles. 2 are close to 200K, and they are all perfectly nice, clean, well running presentable vehicles. My Mazda 3 has the typical Mazda cancer....keeping up on that is annoying, but my teenage daughter likes it and so I just keep after it. Not fixing the…

the Boomers bled this country dry....

can’t fix stupid. I’m pulling well into 6 figures and drive that sort of car, and haven’t had a payment in over a decade. There’s nothing wrong with driving a nice $4k car....hell, you can MAKE money on a $4K car after driving it a year for free.

I would LOVE to see the stats on just exactly what cars are in that group of financing.

because nobody with a brain would buy a repo’ed car...if they don’t pay the note, they sure didn’t change the oil.

me too - I drive 40K+ a year, so I buy cash money priced higher end cars with 100K miles and 3-4 years old. Sales guy cars....limousines....executives-on-the-go cars....well maintained and turns out they’re good cars for folks that drive a crap ton of miles....whoever had it first took a beating financially, but I can…

I want this. I want to drive it. And smell it. And be seen in it. For 6 grand.

Saved me the time of posting this. This is actually the only valid answer.

only newbie/ignorant drivers service big ‘events’. Experienced drivers know that the amount of wasted time dealing with picking people up from the large events wipes out the benefit of the surge. We earn more money AWAY from the events.

only newbie drivers chase surge. That’s the first thing a driver learns NOT to do.

Still aren’t. In fact, I’ve maintained for years that Uber / Lyft could charge MORE than taxis and still keep the lion’s share of the market. Why? Because the average Uber/Lyft car, and the experience overall is superior. Taxis are just gross to ride in. Uber drivers take FAR better care of their vehicles, and the…

those parties doing ‘studies’ were MILES away from independent.

yup. I really think that Uber going to the up-front pricing scheme in reaction to the riders freaking out over surge pricing and the resultant regulation efforts actually made this worse in that aspect. Decent tradeoff though - the social backlash was more immediate and potentially worse.

what we were getting into was simple - I sucked a LOT of VC money out of the VC douches’ pockets, out of Uber’s and Lyft’s pockets, and put it in mine. I know of no other way to redistribute the VC Douches wealth than to do it through an app that they fund with coke-filled reckless abandon. That gravy train won’t last…

show me your master’s degree in economics there hee-haw.

****crickets****