He’s just the most visible example. “Buy heavily depreciated former expensive luxury car then complain about what’s broken, spend two months fixing it myself just to break even” has launched a multitude of Youtube careers.

I don’t see where this article paints Tesla’s depreciation as an inherently bad thing

There are other luxury / exotic cars that don’t depreciate at the same rates, the question is how are the ones that depreciate rapidly different. Most often it’s a lack of reliability combined with expensive replacement parts.

According to this data, Tesla models lose value twice as fast as Alfa Romeo and three times as fast as Maserati. This massive depreciation drop is mostly tied to Elon’s decision to constantly cut prices on new models, forcing an ever-widening gap for pre-owned cars.

Paid $25K for my ‘22 Bolt EV with 8K miles. It costs 3 cents a mile to drive when I charge it at home. Over 200 miles of range, no range anxiety for city driving.

ID verification, they said. Ran it for both me and the wife, even though I was the only one paying them. Strangely, several of the forms said “credit application”.

I wouldn’t say that they’re lying about prices, MSRP is easy enough to find independently if the dealer won’t provide it.

Have we finally found something that Jalopnik hates more than Elon?  Lawyers?

I thought these smart financial types knew about how powerful leveraging debt is

Neighbor got a quote for a 5.6kW solar system on his roof from some local guys who knocked on his door, $35K.

They’ve launched Tundra, Sequoia, LX, GX, Tacoma and Land Cruiser in the last ~24 months, none with a NA drivetrain.  Toyota is done with NA drivetrains for now.

Funny enough, I upgraded for the new blue. My previous car was the dark blue (“nightfall mica”), it’s too dark. Only looks good in perfect light. The new Ultrasonic Blue Mica 2.0 is amazing, very close to the Structural Blue from the initial Inspiration Editions.

I’ve owned a ‘21 LC convertible and now a ‘24. These are amazing cars. Mark from savagegeese owns one personally and gives the best reviews that I’ve seen of them. The car is bipolar: wake the neighbors loud when you want it to be, 32+ MPG 80+ MPH cruiser in 10th gear with Comfort mode on when you want it to be.

The new 4Runner will have this same 2.4L turbo (+ hybrid possibly) drivetrain.  So the reliability crowd will be looking at 5th gen 4Runners in that case.

A modestly spec’d Land Cruiser is basically the same price as a GX550 Overtrail.  The GX has a V6, tows 3000 more pounds and is just a nicer place to be.

I don’t think the main issue in this story is that the woman was hit by a car. If the photos in the article are where the accident occurred, this looks like a rural / 55 MPH highway with decently sized shoulders. There’s no crosswalk visible, no sidewalk alongside the road etc so there’s no expectation on the driver’s…

I’ve bought two, this car is excellent.  But it’s expensive and not winning any performance comparisons, so nobody buys them.

Beancounters at Toyota HQ look at this car and say “we already make a convertible that nobody buys, why would we make another one?”

The impact in this test is not how these guardrails are intended to function or tested in the real world:

You’re kidding, right? Biden’s never had the 60 votes required