Yeah, my assumption is that everything noted in this article is only valid for the next 10 days. And may, retroactively, become invalid back to January 1st.

I (not a professional) think it’s risky on a purchase, even right now before he takes office. Whether you buy the car today, when they the rebates are valid, or in 2 weeks after he gets rid of them on his 2nd day in office, it’s all filed under the 2025 tax year. At the end of the day, you still need to qualify for…

Right - for reference, the lease agreement for my wife’s EVquinox shows something like $35k for the buyout at the end. That’s on a $43k car. The leases are cheap because they are using the point-of-sale tax credit to makeup for half of the depreciation, but absolutely no one is buying these out at the end of the lease.

I wouldn’t expect those brands to die - at least not within the next decade. And globally probably never - despite Nissan’s best efforts to sink the ship, it still does at least as much business as Honda in many markets.

It would be nice if there was some detail around the engine replacement (who knows, maybe you could track down the shop that did it), but at this price it doesn’t matter- NP.

“who was supposed to be installing these bolts?”

The old 4cyl Camry was totally fine. It wasn’t going to win any races, but who’s buying a Camry for that? And considering how it seems like 98% of what you see on the road is a 4cyl, I think most people who were actually showing up to buy one (versus the internet keyboard warriors) agreed.

Gone are the days of 300hp v6 Camrys. So it only makes sense to buy an i8 instead!

The Equinox EV has a lot of features (like more range and faster charging) that make it a nice improvement over the Bolt EUV for being the “main” vehicle. It’s unfortunately quite a bit longer, which may be an issue with their space constraints.

I don’t see why you’d deal with the issues these have unless you got one with a v8 (which itself had issues too, but then you have a v8 Merc minivan, which seems worth the hassle). It’s a decent price, but just the cost of entry.

I think there was a study that I read (probably on this site, many many years back) that showed new drivers were statistically the most likely to crash, not just young drivers. Regardless of age, drivers with less than 1 year of experience had the highest rates of collisions, and the results were very close between 16…

There’s a Vitpilen 401 on FB Marketplace near me for pretty cheap. My plan was always to get another 400cc-ish bike when I sold my DRZ Supermoto, just something very slightly more comfy. I’m not quite ready to buy another bike yet, but it keeps coming up and taunting me.

My thought was that it will of course be a project car, but if there’s a little bit of maintenance history for the soft rubber bits to match the visually good condition then it has to be a nice price.

And the 25 year rule applies to road vehicles - people import newer ones because they are cheaper and more practical than utility vehicles for farm work. More visibility = more people looking into them = more people buying them for “off-road” use = no more payday for companies making utility sideXsides.

I like HoMiNi, because the others just sound like types of batteries. Hontsubissan is a little ungainly I suppose.

I’ve always driven small cars with small engines. Most would return high-20s gas mileage whether you took it easy or flogged them.

I haven’t been around Volvos from this era (only seeing them from afar) and I think my mind just assumed the bulletproof reliability of later wagons extended back to these. I suppose nothing from 1972 is particularly reliable, and the ease of maintenance of and older car is probably negated by the part availability.

It looks like someone spend a decent sum to buy a nice clean 944 and then another princely sum in bolt-in parts to play boy racer. I bet it’s spend minimal time on a track being wringed out, which is good (but means it’s probably not actually track ready) but if that bin of parts doesn’t include seats it’s probably…

I think it’s almost all sentimental value. If this can’t run down a drag strip (even non-competitively) it’s basically worthless. The sum of it’s parts is worth a few grand, everything else is what it’s worth to the person who built it.

If they aren’t sending it to him by Tweet he isn’t going to read it anyway.