Your assuming also Toyota dealers will not mark it up and be the slimy toyota dealers we all know and... love?

but there’s no way President Biden would nominate a soulless ghoul backed by both the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society

Whatchoo talkin’ about Willis?

It’s engineered to benefit the vehicle manufacturer most, not the final consumer. Like you implied, many of the goals of the manufacturer directly are bad for the consumer.

God, man. Your takes are so consistently strident and smug, and far less informed than you imagine.

Obviously, Owen is blind.

Really, whether the 15 year mortgage makes sense for someone depends on (a) whether they can afford the higher payment vs. a 30 year, and (b) the difference in the interest rate between the 15 and the 30. In a situation where the rates are very close, the option to pay over 30 years has value.

Maybe if somebody has such bad PTSD that they think acorns are gunshots and empty their firearm at the sound of an acorn, they shouldn’t be allowed access to firearms?

I just updated the numbers. At $0.10/kWh, 15,000 miles (98% electric), and $3.50/gallon, it’s still a 6+ year ROI on the extra cost over the AWD version and 13 years on the FWD version.

So what he’s saying is that Mercedes doesn’t have any idea how to design a car based on the most recent regulations, it’s not likely to improve based on the future regulations, and they’re not accepting his inputs.

And he’s been making some outright silly mistakes the last two years

Why are you comparing a sedan and a CUV? If should be ICE sedan to EV sedan, or ICE CUV to EV CUV. So the 3-series to the Model 3, and the X3 to the Model Y.

The “red hair” argument is a total fallacy. It was essentially one research group deciding what “ideal” sex characteristics look like and defining anyone that fell outside of those ideals as having intersex characteristics. It’s been irresponsibly repeated by people that didn’t want to actually read the study for…

How many EVs actually weigh 5000 lbs?

Is there any “new” vehicle with 3,000 miles that CarMax would give you MSRP for?

They should have been putting variants of the Volt drivetrain in everything from Malibus to Traverses to Colorados over 12 years ago. But nope, they go and keep it in the Volt, then stick it in a pretty poor excuse for a Cadillac, and then re-do the Volt but make it less useable, not pretty enough, and basically don’t…

gonna let you in on a little secret. it’s pretty much all the same gas, just some brands have additives. and those are not injected at the gas station. they are injected at the terminals, most of which are not owned by those brands. and if a driver is there to lift a branded chevron load and his pin number isn’t…

If Mazda did that and used these same names, it would still be weird. Offering both two- and three-row versions of one car is not the issue here, the marketing and naming is what’s so strange.

I’m not suggesting complete elimination of road salt. I’m suggesting a combination of:

This isn’t an S2000... you recognize that. Look at all the comments here saying it’s not an enthusiast vehicle. It just happens to be a manual version of a basic/boring vehicle.