I despise Elon Musk and all he touches, but this isn’t really a ding against Tesla, IMO. So long as you are extracting value from what you have purchased, depreciation is a purely academic concern. If you pay price X for a car, and own it for years Y, is the value of X divided by Y an acceptable rate to pay for having…

“Can only be original once” is a whopper of an excuse to not shoot new paint.

Might be a weird sticking point, but for $28K, replace the headliner, especially since you have the parts. When someone represents a car as being well taken care of and fails to finish a relatively simple repair, I am skeptical about their other claims.

There is a point where patina is worth more than pretty, but that’s usually for cars with more character or interest. I don’t this car is there yet.

Afaik Euro standards are higher than US standards. US standards are just different takes on the same philosophy in some instances, resulting in mismatched safety outcomes. We need harmonization between both.

Boring? Have you seen our violent crime rate? Also, you’re assuming a lot that she ever planned on registering the car. People will drive their car for years on expired paper plates because you have to pay your sales tax when you register the car. I’ve seen paper plates in plastic weatherproof plate cases. Btw, paper…

Gotta be able to haul those 2.5 kids and their 4 friends, and all the equipment for the 9 different sports you signed them up for… 

It’s sad because it really, really wants to come to the U.S.

So, the original California Special was just taking the Shelby side stripe from the bottom, and moving it up to the middle of the door?

EuroNCAP standards for anything that Americans would actually buy (compact car sized and up) are probably just as stringent as what they’d have to pass in the US (both the mandatory stuff, and to look good in their IIHS ratings). What’s keeping them from bringing those cars over here now is cost and lack of demand. EV…

She was NEVER going to insure it.  And it wasn’t going to have 1st Party Comp/Collision anyway.  She wasn’t going to get money for it from insurance in anyway.  People don’t buy 3k Cars and then buy Theft insurance for it.  Just not worth it anymore. 

Isn’t that like the first thing you do even before buying the car, shop around for the insurance, get a quote? Then you as soon as you buy the car, you officially add it to your policy? That’s all first day activities, why did she not have it on the policy by the next day at most?

Most people on this planet are not that smart to follow rules to protect themselves, or do have the sense to do anything other than yell into the empty cosmos and hope something happens, or their situation/upbringing doesn’t allow/taught them of being responsible...

Hah! I thought it was because I wasn’t up to date with American colloquialisms.  Glad I wasn’t alone in thinking “is this good or bad?”.

My real problem is none of them had the spine to call out Trump due to abject fear.  The only one who got close was Viv on the call out on the party....and he is a douchebag by proxy so it won’t go anywhere.

<SHRUG> Could be worse.  Could be yellow splitter protectors.

Ford “beefed” it?  Well beef is good, no?  So then Ford did something good?

This is New Jersey. I’ll bet that buyer met the deer later and slipped him $250 for bringing the price of the truck down.

You know, if you want to reduce deer collisions, moving or otherwise, then we need more large predators to control their numbers. More wolf and bear reintroductions, and population expansion where they are present. It is what keeps their populations down to reasonable levels.

Pretty sure that’s an Impala, dude.