Fellow Nutmeg Stater! I kept my first TDI, a 1998 Jetta, for eleven years before selling it to get a 2009 Jetta TDI. I guess I got lucky having skipped over the problematic Mk4 cars. I used to read all the horror stories on TDI Club.

I think it’s more one of those “one hit wonder in the US, absolutely massive in the rest of the world for 25 years” situations than age.

A truly wonderful man who was a treat to be with on a Skippy weekend at Road America.

Pontiac G8 GT — it’s fun, but still manageable whenever you decide to hand over the keys to the ‘lil dude.

I had Dieselgate cash in hand at the time, and the salesperson I finally got a hold of was supposed to call me as soon as a WRX came to the lot so I could at least sit inside it. Never happened, and ended up with a Volvo wagon. On the flip side of sleaze was the BMW salesperson who called once a day (although he was…

I’m a Max fan, have been since I started watching in ‘14. My dude is an absolute maniac and that’s why I like him. And it’s for that exact reason that I couldn’t get too mad about the incident. The move Max specifically got blasted on was one he’s done over and over again, drivers and other teams have been complaining…

Marko the teenager WILL HAVE NONE OF THIS, SIR

almost killed someone

Lease consumers do not have equity in their cars because the cars are not theirs. The manufacturers simply are closing the loophole that allowed the customer to sell not their car to a third party. I am surprised that loophole even existed in the first place. 

Neutral: I just don’t get the generic hate for billionaires. It seems to me that the same crowd that always screams “eat the rich” or wish harm to a specific group of people just based on a few commonalities, are the same ones speaking up about profiling.

“I am looking to get a Ford Maverick when they hit the dealers.”
Prepare to get no deal whatsoever and in fact a market adjustment bump.

Did these even cost $8400 in 1980? Perhaps a crazy price unless you’re a Honda fanboi.

And that is correct. BUY the car at the end of the contract. When you BUY the car, you now owe sales tax on the residual value!!!!! However the entire point is you can not sell the car until you actually buy the car for the residual amount.  That’s not what is happening here, people think they can sell a car that they…

The lessee still has the right to buy the car at the end of the lease for $Z. What Honda/Acura aren’t doing is letting someone else buy the car at the end of the lease for $Z.

I agree that the comments are difficult to sort out, and I agree that you’re not leasing from “Autonation Desert Honda” but instead “Honda Financial”. Will you clarify how leases aren’t written in the way I’m describing?

OK I don’t mean to be the asshole here, but leasing is renting. The two terms mean the same thing.

Exactly.

As long as they dont start making it more difficult to actually buy the car myself, there is really nothing “wrong” with what they are doing.

I’ll use a simple analogy so everyone can understand how this works: If you rent a house, you cannot put the house up for sale, sell it and then pocket the money. The house does not belong to you.

I don’t see how it’s screwing the lessee either. They’re still getting every single thing owed to them in their contract, it’s just that they can’t take advantage of this totally unprecedented scenario whereby used cars are worth way more than they should be, but in an inverse scenario they wouldn’t be getting hosed…