My retired parents paid $85,000 for their 23 ft 1 bedroom rv with 2 slideouts. Has an outdoor kitchen and tv, too. The 50-60+ crowd doesn’t want a blank slate. They want a fully finished rv. And they can get one for not much more $$ than this one.

You’d be surprised how many people 35 to 45 would also fall into the buyer base for a van like this. There’s a decent amount of nouveau riche millennials thanks to the tech and real estate boom of the last decade.

I can see this since we are in our 50s,  work from home and have low key looked at a van/camper thing for convenience at trailheads and the occasional overnight but boy howdy I am not paying as much as my first house for for a conversion van. I will either buy an old Econoline or rig something in my old and paid for…

What you want out of a vehicle and what most people want seem to be different. Most people can only afford one, maybe two vehicles. Therefore, they need a flexible vehicle capable of doing many things just ok instead of one thing well. CUVs fit that bill. And if you can get better fuel economy in the package, that’s…

Yep. As much as people want to rant about them on there, CUVs and SUVs are pretty much perfect vehicles for most use-cases and preferences. If someone who isn’t a car-person and doesn’t care a wit about driving ‘experience’ asks me what I think they should get - it’s almost route at this point to say a CRV, HRV, RAV4,…

This keeps descending, doesn’t it?

BMW X6, it’s useless, horrible, dumb and only idiots would drive such a hideous thing. 

If my math is correct, even at normal-people car speeds (60 MPH), 1/3 of a second translates to around 29 feet. That’s more than a car-length, even with today’s ridiculously-long F1 cars. Double the speeds to 120 MPH and you’re closer to 60 feet, or several car lengths.

1. Buy an off-lease one of these in years.

Well I have a Yakima roof box and ARB shade on my roof rack, and my main problem is that not every parking garage can accommodate my car. But the roof box stays on all the time because skis in the winter and camping stuff or other gear in the summer.

So I’m sure this has been noted, but if the rails are on the top of your tent, it seems they would have been designed for a compression load (downward) rather than a tension load (upward) meaning that hanging from them may be putting undue stress on the shell of the tent.

Just need to know the guys in the Black Hats.

Given the connected bed and the midgate, they should have called it the AvElanche.  

I am actually at the point where it makes more financial sense to work for my company as a contractor/consultant instead of a W2 employee. And of course I can say this because my family is fortunate that my wife gets excellent benefits and insurance from her job. But if I worked as a 1099 and deducted business…

I am not sure about actual statistics, but I imagine that a large percentage of pickups are purchased by businesses either by small, self-employed, contractors and workers or by medium and larger business as fleet vehicles. And for those businesses, there are some significant tax savings that help offset the initial…

I think a better explanation is that Sedans were actually a hugely over-saturated market for decades and these cars that aren’t fun to drive nor practical on any level minus maybe some minor boost in fuel economy over a crossover (which is increasingly not actually true) are dying off.  Fine by me, the current trend…

Those tires tell me everything I need to know, now that I’ve googled whatever the hell “Cosmo Mucho Macho Tires” are.

MuchoMacho tires instead of MuchoDinero tires may portend other low-cost maintenance shortcuts.

This is just a way for a rich guy to shuffle his money around and not pay taxes on it. He commissioned it and then had his company (which spent 1M building it) charge him 6M after which he takes both a tax deduction as a company marketing expense and then at the same time a cash distribution from the company likely…

Six million dollars.