Considering Ford dealers are marking up Broncos at $20-40K, I don’t feel sorry for them one bit.

“Rabble rabble! I’ve been screwing customers over for years, like my father before me, like his father before him! You just can’t mess with that kind of tradition!” - Some dealership owner, probably

My takeaways from this are as follows:

Isn’t that exactly what Ford did with the Lincoln Continental?

I mean you could just say Texas, you don’t have to be nice and say Third World 

When the words ‘replica’ and ‘roller’ get used in the description, it will never be worth 5 figures. This is barely worth 4 figures. Just donate it to a some mechanic program or engineering university so the students can turn it into something cool. 

Not surprised here. From 2006 to 2010 I fought the Feds and the Alabama Department of Transportation over the expansion of I-85 from Montgomery to Meridian, Mississippi. That boondoggle would have wiped out a lot of neighborhoods, including mine. And I won.

My advice

Yeah, I understand how the dealership model has changed (largely by necessity) over the last couple decades and last couple years. When everyone isn’t buying new cars after 3-4 years because 60k miles was a LOT back in the day, it gets harder and harder to build a reputation and make money off of loyalty (same…

“We’re becoming very concerned that since we’ve been charging 10-50k over MSRP forcing consumers to essentially be upside down forever, that they won’t keep buying cars which we didn’t think would happen and is very confusing to us.”

I’d wager part of it has to do with daily-drivability advantages for dumb drivers that don’t care to either improve their driving skills/knowledge and/or invest in snow tires.

I’m not a fan of the styling, but if that price point is true it will be hard to ignore this car.

This is the weirdest recession ever.

I used to think there should be mandatory personal financial education in grade school, junior high, up to high school. That this would help solve our problems.

I like how they say Big Boy Edition like it is something manly to be proud of. No you are an idiot. Should say moron edition.

No, not really. Have you seen the video online of the people talking about their $1300-1500 car payments? That’s what’s going on, people who can’t afford these cars are making mortgage sized car payments every month.

Hey, it’s you’re fault you chose not be born extremely wealthy!

/s

Read: Demand for luxury goods skyrockets as money is siphoned from the general public as “inflation” paid out as record profit percentages.

Being stuck on a gigantic incubator with people who actively lie about being sick because they paid for a cruise and by God they’re going no matter what? Shit, I’m all about it. Maybe while I’m on the ship it can lose power for a few days or have propulsion and sewage problems. Hell, let’s go whole hog and throw some…

Of course, the issue in the Bay Area is cost of living. The places people want to live are becoming too expensive for people who would do those jobs.