Criminally understarred.  Mahk is awesome.

It’s a Jaguar - the button is broken.

Wait until your statistics prof gets it and tells you they all performed the same.

Oh man, if this guy tried to turn this in to my old Physics prof as a report, he would get smacked upside the head 4 times for all these weird decisions. Why is he comparing the tires based on the wheel diameter but then actually just comparing tire width? How can he attribute the handling differences between them to…

Maybe it’s because my early driving experience fell far more on the truck side of things, but I don’t really get the aversion to sidewall for non-performance cars. What looks off to me is rubber bands stretched around the wheels of boring family cars, trucks, and SUVs.

So different wheel diameters, tire widths, and sidewall heights.

Um the TM3 has a terrible interior. Its has no style. Its like driving a washing machine. Or golf cart. At least a golf cart has a knob to turn on the headlights. 

You do realize that the US is a net oil exporter?  We’re a lot less prone to these pertubations than we used to be...

At $86k the sleeker (and, more importantly, larger and more useful) Model S is the better deal.

I’m awaiting the magic of EV depreciation so I can get a used 3 at about $25,000. If they’re like the S’s, then they’ll be garaged with super low miles. I need a commuter for my 140-mile a day run that’ll drive itself on the highways. 

Except Tacoma frame failures were just due to rust. Evidently Japanese manufacturing didn’t take into account the level of salt on American roads. This Jeep issue was a MISSED WELD at the factory. That is really bad. It’s not just a missed spot weld on a unibody car (which are highly redundant). It’s not a stress…

Technical Weld Specialist be reading the back of the package

dealers will arrange to have a “Technical Weld Specialist” come to make the weld repair

OK, I didn’t totally understand your original comment. You’re basically saying it’s too risky to be leveraged if you can’t pay off your assets in case of emergency.

No one is forcing anyone to buy something they can’t afford. And I’m not talking about predatory practices from lenders or shady dealers, that is a whole other story.

In 2001, I endeavored to buy a 1996 Dodge Intrepid....No one tried to stop me.

I bought a new Subaru a few years ago without getting jerked around by anyone at any point in the process.  It was bizarre. 

There’s literally nothing else like it on the market. I think if someone else came out with a close competitor, like the Defender soft top, or a Gwagon cabriolet (but reasonably priced), they would do well and eat into this market. 

Oh, I don't like it either. But we're not talking about piping in the noise in this case.