That is a great data analysis exercise. However used car prices are not like new car prices. Used cars have a pretty long tail towards the low end. You can find old running domestic cars for $2000. Cars needing major work for $1000. Clap out rust buckets for $500. And there are always a few horrid cases for free. So…

Except during that time frame ALL cars were overpriced. Be they cheap cars or used cars. Everyone had to overpay during that time frame if they needed a car.

Actually my mother also bought with cash, but that is beside the point. The point is that cars were crazy overpriced during the ‘supply chain’ era, and if you needed a car at that time you were hosed whether you paid cash or not. 

Ummm- you are forgetting that during that 2021-2022 time frame, used car prices were through the roof too!

So how come you can buy a Tesla or IPhone in China, but you are not allowed to buy a BYD or Huawei phone in the US? We have less freedom of choice and more paranoia here in the US than in China. That is certainly a bad thing.

First of all, if communism really makes companies so competitive then we should all adopt communism.

If it’s a known issue and the failure mode is well known, I would expect there to be some kind of permanent fix- like shrink-wrapping the whole connector to keep moisture out. Pretty much every enthusiast car has at least one of these foibles.

It’s not all a matter of financial literacy. There was a period of time in 2021-2022 when you walked into a car dealer and the first question you asked was ‘So.... what is the surcharge on this one?’. If you needed a car during that time you paid what you had to pay, which was $2k -$8k over MSRP. My mother’s car got…

The average selling price is $48k. That doesn’t mean the median selling price is $48k. The median is going to be much lower. The average is higher because the high end is stretched out by the expensive cars where sky is the limit.

Hell, most everyone is underwater on their car loan the moment they drive their new car off the lot

This one looks WAY cooler than the Cyber Fruck. I’m not feeling the chrome hand rails in the back, but aside from that the design is spot on.

Agreed. The Prius V was a wonderful thing. They should have continued it.

The 3D scanning technology is just insane! But while they are at it, shouldn’t they be scanning these early Celicas:

If you want to lower your car, get shorter springs

Of course. Don’t bolt lead plates to your passenger seat to make your Miata 2400 lbs !

if someone hit my car, I’d want them to pay something too

or d) the cop is a douche

In 99.995% of rear end accidents, there is no traffic ticket given even when it is clear that the person doing the rear-ending was at fault (which is almost 100% of the cases).  The fact that the other party claims from your insurance and causes your insurance premium to go up, is punishment enough. In fact I’d rather…

I think the best guide to how and where to modify your car, is to see how the factory does it. You can’t go wrong by putting factory go-fast parts into your own car.

Wouldn’t that be more wagon than hatch?