You should consider the purpose.  The BRZ is supposed to be a sports car so 7 seconds may not be fast enough for a sports car (sporty? car) while 12 seconds might be plenty fast for a minivan, especially a 25 year old mini-van.

When it comes to this price one has to decide its purpose.  Are you going to keep this car as a show runner or are you planning to use it as a vehicle.  If show runner nice price for someone; but I would use it as a vehicle thus No Dice.

I don’t think 3 hours to complete a car buying is a reasonable amount of time.  If you already know which car you want and how much you want to pay for it, then it should take at most 1 hour.  Anything beyond that is just dealership BS.

I don’t think the staff are necessarily bad as the general sales philosophy of that dealership and its owners or in some cases the sales manager.

“But the very few times I’ve dealt with a salesperson who gave clear answers in a timely fashion - they earn my business.”  It is so blatant.  There are groups of dealerships that train their sales people not to give out the information.  For instance the salespeople at a group of dealerships were not allowed to give…

But we have access to cars at nearby dealers also owned by our “family”.

I experienced that push for unneeded and non-beneficial warranties during my time with the finance manager when I bought a car this August.  I already had 3 full years and 100 000 km powertrain warranty on my next to new car and they were pushing a 5 year 120 000 km warranty.  (mine was at 3 years because it was a 2…

I trust and hope you’re right!

I believe your history of the cancellation of the Ford Active is hopelessly inaccurate: “But the Active is the one Americans were supposed to be able to buy before tariffs on Chinese imports got in the way.”  If my memory serves me right Ford was planning to give us this Ford Focus and to build it in Mexico when the…

Happened to me back in July.

Depreciation really suck when your car gets totaled by a deer, or some careless driver.  Furthermore, cars that depreciate quicker get written off by insurance adjusters faster as well, since they just aren’t valuable enough to repair.  You get dinged both ways by depreciation.  It’s even worse if you actually put a…

I almost laughed, but just couldn’t.

I don’t know, but the local Stellantis dealer is full of all sorts of Ram, Chrysler, Jeep products, including some of the new three rows.  I still can’t bear to drive onto their lot.  On the other hand, nearly every other reputable dealer in the area has absolutely no stock on hand whatsoever.

Here’s the issue with this car: “This clean-title 2005 Cadillac CTS-V has 116,181 miles on the clock and is described as “fast and loud” by its seller.” Anyone who remembers the glory days of Cadillac remembers them for being ‘smooth and quiet’ or “the mark of excellence.”  Fast and loud seem to be the opposite of…

I think you’re full of something.  There’s no way that AI is better than human drivers in any situation where situational awareness is key.  Until they figure situational awareness into their programming (I wouldn’t know how that would happen) this mythology of AI being better than most humans is just that: mythology.

This clearly is not a robot with a gun on its back; it is a purposely designed weapon.  It clearly looks like it was designed from the ground up for the very purpose of being used as a weapon.

I am so glad for the culturally literate commentariat to teach me all I need to know.  Thank you so very much kind sir/Ma’am.

I didn’t know this about Peter Falk and I’ve watched every Columbo episode, some several times.

I want to see that Ambassador restored and mechanically in better shape then the four year old Ambassador my dad bought when we first arrived in North America.

I do suspect that fewer and fewer people are prepared to pay extra for these 50's models as fewer and fewer people remain that grew up with them.