I’m pretty sure the subprime car loan market *has* grown disproportionately, along with the “ultra-long; always underwater” loan market. I am *hoping* that those are comparatively small vs what happened in the mortgage market, so it might not be as big a disaster. But there could be also knock-on effects of mass…

So that car is worth more than “someone else’s life” but less than yours. Got it.

True. I was mainly focused on the subprime slice of the pie, which (based on what I remember reading here) isn’t all that big compared to the mortgage pie. Should have been more clear.

So if I’m understanding you correctly, that car is worth more than a human life. So it logically follows that, if it would bring that car back, you would willingly kill yourself, yes? If not, please tell me your criteria for which people are and, critically, are not suitable for sacrifice.

Holy shit that's depressing haha

There really should be limits on it. The power imbalance between the Large Corporation/Government Entity and The Individual Private Citizen are just too massive for even the illusion of any degree of fairness to exist.

Your ROTC had its own vehicles?! What was it like going to a school that had, like, funding and stuff?

It’ll be “interesting” to see. I’m hopeful it won’t be as big a deal. Partly because the car loan market is peanuts compared to the mortgage market, and partly because subprime mortgages were a relatively new thing, while predatory BHPH dealers have been around and abusing low-income people and trapping them in a…

The Tahoe and Escalade are huge, and this is too.

It probably has a lot to do with where you live/drive. I’m in “the Gentrification Zone” so I see a lot more Kias (and Nissans) than Honda/Toyota than folks in the suburbs. Probably because of the price difference. And perhaps those dealers' willingness to give loans to people with less-than-stellar credit.

I mean, who else competes in that space? Ford scrapped it’s cars, save the mustang. Dodge killed the charger and challenger. The Mirage is dead. Mazda is trying to go upmarket. Honda and Toyota have cars that are slightly more expensive, but with shorter warranties. And there is Nissan, and I’d take a Kia/Hyundai over…

You’re completely correct.  Infiniti is totally superfluous.  And the QX80 is awful.  It’s somehow both bulbous AND boxy in the worst possible ways.

Big same! No one is allowed to tell my wife how much my tires cost. She thinks all cars, and all car parts, are the same.

Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude

I’m going to regret Googling this guy, aren’t I?

People need cars, and theirs are inexpensive, and have good warranties. They’re going to sell plenty of them, so long as no one competes with them in that segment, unfortunately.

They were all over the southeast. Wherever gas was cheap. We had them all over North and South Carolina too. 

Never been much of a motorcycle guy, but that bike makes me feel things.

If I’m understanding you correctly, I’m in complete agreement. That’s a *very* dangerous vacation. And one of the people on board was allegedly a deep sea exploration expert. That guy for sure should have been asking some very tough questions.  Kind of makes me wonder if he actually was any kind of expert whatsoever,…

There’s somebody (well, several somebodies) renovating a house across the street. One of them has a *pristine, massively lifted* H2. It’s truly wild to look at. It’s tow hitch must be three feet tall from where it meets the receiver to where the trailer hooks up.