Yeah she’s got it wrong. She didn’t just give them free money like she said, she gave them money for the specific time of her contract and had she had a claim they would have paid. She didn’t have a claim, but that doesn’t mean she got nothing out of it.

Something is definitely missing here. I may be wrong but pretty sure in almost all states they can’t drop you partway through the policy term, and they can’t non-renew you for just anything, there’s specific things such as major violations, repeat claims, etc.

I was going to say my wife’s Macan, but since it’s a 2018 and not new I’ll pick the Macan T. 6-cyl models are known to leak but the 4 is a joy to drive and it’s the same 2.0 that VW puts in everything these days and robust enough to take a pretty strong tune. Everything else about it is typical Porsche reliable, and…

Woah, this just got into the mix as a potential replacement for my BMW when the time comes...

Agree with the not recommending enthusiast cars to non-enthusiasts, but I’ll always recommend something that’s enjoyable to drive relative to the default choices they probably already looked at. If they say they’re looking at a smaller CUV, they definitely already looked at the Tuscon, Seltos, CR-V, and Rav4. I’ll…

$20k-ish will get you a 300 hp AWD manual 2013-2015 BMW 335 with decent miles, or a 330 hp Audi S4 of a similar year, both of which are solid cars.

Sounds to me like you have too many specialized cars that should be consolidated. You’ve got two classic cars (912/allante), two radwood-ish ones (Supra/S6), a track car, and another project that’ll never be completed.

Just needs to fit in the venn diagram of being both reliable enough that you probably won’t need to work on it in the bitter cold, and cheap enough that you can afford to not have full coverage on it.

Yeah I know it was just low-hanging fruit, especially when you can get a clear view of the odometer in the video.

The thing is, MB, Porsche, Audi, and BMW only had one benchmark when they developed their cars which was Tesla. So they kind of all went their own way based on their vision of “this is what the new way is.” It’s not like their top-line cars where they’re benchmarking each other’s current generation and one-upping each…

This was advice from someone to a client who was buying a car. In 2021 when used cars were in short supply many dealers wrote into order agreements that the car they’re trading in needs to be traded/can’t be sold elsewhere to buy the car at the agreed price. Or if there was a high-demand new car on the lot they…

You do, but not from the dealer. Just get it through your insurance it’s a lot cheaper, easier to deal with if you have a claim, and likely more reputable than whatever company they’re using.

Here’s one many of my clients received when I was selling cars:

Musk is the head, but you better believe that there’s a whole group of yes men/women in his circle that are complicit in this shit pile too. I’m not talking about the lower engineers and production line here, but the rest of leadership. They could have had the better part of a decade to get him to change his mind, but…

I think what’s more impressive than them not crashing is the fact that they made it around flogging a diesel Land Rover from the mid-late 2000s with almost 170k miles and didn’t break down.

I think the biggest thing is cost. Breakfast food is cheap, making it really good isn’t much more expensive. It’s easy to get a late breakfast/brunch on a weekend day and be full enough to not want dinner for $20 plus a drink and tip when going out to dinner that same day would easily cost $50/person plus drinks and…

In my experience the same “nice” drivers at a stoplight are the worst most hesitant drivers around and also don’t know how to work a roundabout.

If wanting to/having fun with a car legally on public roads is grounds for institutionalization we’re all fucked.

They’ll all be glowing reviews. All the weird nerds defending Tesla won’t ever admit a car they paid probably a hundred grand to their god for was anything but perfect.

Yeah they dug their own grave. If it was a limited production special model the delays and extreme styling might be worth it, like some supercars that took forever to come along. But a mass production model? Yikes.