If they actually enforced the laws like left lane for passing, no tailgating, headlights on, phone use, etc...

My question though is if it was on the edge why didn’t they ask for a paystub upfront figuring they’d probably need it? If they asked for a paystub and then it got declined the income probably didn’t add up to his claimed total (or the F&I person fudged it to try to get an approval), but either way it’s 100% the…

“did not want to be bound by the (retail installment sales) contract.”

They seem to be attracting the customers that would otherwise buy a Ram Rebel. The guys who are probably a total bro but not the asshole kind. Those guys are getting squatted/lifted trucks or flooring it everywhere in a TRX.

This is the last generation before they got all blobby and overinflated-looking, so there’s that. I’d like to think the buyer was some older gentleman who DID buy a newer Corolla for his wife and she couldn’t figure out any of the tech. She made a big fuss about it and complained every time she got in the car so to…

My choices may be skewed a bit by the fact that they’re not supercars and to the average person look like normal cars, which does up the impressiveness factor compared to something like a Ferrari that you expect to sound amazing, but:

Toyota is winning because they finally got the Tonka Truck styling to work, at least in the eyes of the truck buying public.

I really wish May’s stuff would be more popular so people would understand my references to it.

To be fair, being washed out and poor displays was really the standard of the time, no one had really figured out how to get good visible high quality displays that you could also read with polarized sunglasses.

Yeah we had baseball-sized hail in a small part of MN near me over the weekend. If tiny hail counts as a trace amount of snow, baseball size is at least 2 inches in July, right!?

If you’re the type of driver that thinks good handling means you can take a 30mph exit ramp at 50 then you probably wouldn’t notice. So... good to hear BMW is helmed by real drivers then.

No, it was also Fender. They used Fender sound systems for a couple cars including the MK7 GTI, and it sounded pretty good.

Came here to say this too. We have the wagon and it’s been awesome. Folds up nice and compact and the wheels come off super easy to fit into a sedan trunk and it’s held up nicely for us after a year or so of use so far.

A couple hundred pounds isn’t enough, over 5000 for a “sports sedan” is not going to cut it. Go with the I6 and an electric turbo system, maybe 48 volt system too for accessories and start/stop, and get rid of the electric drive. Save 1,000 lbs and have a 600 hp car that can handle like a BMW should.

The US sold 15.5 million cars last year. At the current $7,500 tax credit that’s $116 billion if all were electric. It will eventually get to a point where throwing money at new car buyers is unsustainable and there will be a subset of the population (whether it’s 10% or 50% we’ll see) that won’t buy EV no matter the…

Speed is irrelevant when you can buy a Kia that’ll do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Quick is pretty meaningless these days.

The only reason it’s the best they could do is because the marketing execs think they need to posture to spec sheet dumbasses. I guarantee you they said it had to have a V8 and it had to be hybrid, and that’s why they were stuck with this monstrosity.

OK so couple things:

Jesus Christ, people have to get over themselves. 27 cents is not going to cause anyone to struggle any more. If that’s such an issue just do the shopping yourself, don’t spend $100/year on prime and get the stuff yourself. It’s at least a start to figuring out the upcoming problem of funding roads...

I like the Bulgari collab because it goes with my theory that analog gauges that can be legit designed, crafted, and have real mechanics in them are better in every way than a screen with lines of code, no matter how flashy or reconfigurable it is. My grandparents had a 2004 XLR with the Bulgari gauges and it was…