$199/month is only worth leasing if you are the type of person who absolutely does not care what you drive. If you care at all about comfort, quality, practicality, ergonomics (not being distracted by the tech while driving), feel, safety (assuming based on the quality of everything else), it doesn’t matter how cheap…

Nah, I would never take over a lease. It’s paying new car lease pricing (sure it may be subsidized but new cars are becoming incentivized again too) for a not-current MY car that’s not new, for a short term that’s usually the more expensive part of the lease service-wise. I’ll put up with a larger 30k/40k service bill…

Just, no. Miata sales are low enough compared to the rest of their fleet that they should only need to improve fuel economy to make it work. It’s already got a small engine, I bet just putting a better top gear for cruising would improve highway mileage by a lot.

I’ve driven one before and they are very cool. But, they all leak oil, and from what my tech said the leaks are always basically impossible to fix. You can chase it replacing basically everything and get nowhere, or accept it and let it progressively get worse. But it won’t ever go away. S6 we had for sale that I…

Well he posted the story because it was done in a way that didn’t really work well when things started failing. In the post he does say “Style aside (it looked SO rad)“ so obviously he thought it still looked good, which is where I say why...

It’s definitely hard to calculate. With the apparent manager’s response in the greys, the cost is higher than I calculated, I figured $400/year for reg in my state so add around $1,500 tax and that’s an additional $1,200 from my estimate.

Shaving the door handles? Just, why? I don’t even understand how that could possibly look good, it’s a part that all cars have. To me it’s like if someone said “but how good would that girl look without ears?”

I looked at it and the car isn’t there anymore, but unless this was a demo all the other 500e models they have are the exact same price so it could potentially be the same for all of them. The fine print though does say that it doesn’t include the $699 acquisition fee and TTL, so you’re still either putting something…

Wow, I’d probably take this over anything else in that price range, especially if it has the 2.9l V6. It makes me happy to see a real engine still in cool limited-run cars like this.

Now there are some interesting and, dare I say it, decent looking parts of this design. But all I see from the front is a 1994 Ram prior to getting a nose job.

Wouldn’t that be Firestone?

Yeah this has big time band frontman that has a Mercedes collection vibe to me.

My 2014 BMW 335i 6-speed. That car was so much fun all the time, perfectly balanced and the correct amount of power. It was so good I kept it for 10 years and only recently sold it because it was at 150k and needing some repairs. And kept it all throughout all the wife’s fun cars over the years.

I got mine done at 80k and was showing signs of needing replacement in the near future when I sold it at 150k. Summer tires were stock stagger and winters were squared size, and the shuddering happened more often in the winter. So it could potentially be a 40k mile thing if there’s something off with tire wear/sizing.…

Yep, all I could think about when I saw the headline was that they’re spending basically their entire marketing budget on a stupid EV minivan that’s $20k too expensive and will only sell to a few rich ex-hippies in California. Their plan to try to cash in on nostalgia with a vehicle that’s not attainable to nearly as…

Yeah, we’ve had two VAG cars, a MK7 and now a 2.0 Macan. I looked at the MK8 GTI but couldn’t live with that interior, unless you set the auto temp once in your whole ownership and only use carplay for anything, no driver assist usage, it’s exactly as bad as everyone says.

Boring, a bit unreliable, and wasted potential is pretty much most mainline American cars though, that hardly makes the Dart the worst. Plus is it really an American car, since it’s an Alfa Giulietta underneath?

So I can go to a BP station and spend... exactly what I would at a different station then...

Despite how much I hate the brand, Hyundai Santa Cruz should get an N model. With how domestic truck brands have gone all-in on the offroad bro trucks and completely abandoned the cool lowered street trucks, give the Santa Cruz a slight drop, the N engine, a DCT, and some cheesy graphics and you’d get a fun truck…

My car was a manual and 2nd and 3rd gear were the worst shuddering especially with any load in the car. 6th gear acceleration was perfect. My indy kept the car for a couple of days driving it all around with diagnostic tools because they thought it was a misfire that wasn’t throwing a code, and they didn’t want to…