I would have to go with maybe a BMW or any of the turbo engines that get multiple tunes to make less or more power depending on the letter/number soup on the back of your German car. If my 335 has the same engine as the 330, but just electrically unlocked for more power that is almost pointless. Give me the cheaper…

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If you do that, don’t tell him where you got the tune. The APR tune for the R puts out almost 400 hp.

I think your logic is interesting. Playing devil’s advocate: (1) Auto prices have grown significantly faster than inflation, (2) Auto dollars competing in consumers budgets against other fast growing expenses: housing + healthcare, (3) Mohatarem (above) is delusional if he thinks that wage growth is also there, (4)…

I agree there.

I have a Golf Sportwagen with more power than a GTI. Stealth is fun, and in this case, cheap fun.

A supporting reminder: the only connections between companies and their stocks are dividends and bankruptcy, and most companies don’t even bother with the former (what “profit” is for such companies I’ll likely never understand). Unless there’s a threat to industry solvency (which a return to equilibrium almost…

This is why I tend to get most of my economic news from Marketplace. They said just yesterday that the slow down wasn’t necessarily reason to panic and that trucks and SUVs are still doing well. Basically what I just read this morning. I don’t go in for news as entertainment.

According to the Automotive News Data Center, U.S. sales of compact sports cars are up 3.4 percent in 2017

I’m extra salty because my high school had great shop/tech classes and I took exactly none of them because I was prepping for college.

Yes. Exactly. Maybe a 2 year tech school to pay off, which will probably be cheaper anyway.

Yep. Meanwhile there’s a pretty big shortage of truck drivers nowadays because it’s way better to get into 100k of debt for a 40k starting pay than it is to go out there and make an honest living. Truckers actually make decent money, especially owner-operators, but you don’t hear any teacher suggesting that as a…

A side effect of this attitude is that high schools are seen as nothing more than college prep, and as such, they focus heavily on the skills that will help kids score highly on standardized tests. That means cancelling shop classes to divert funding. That means that kids who have real mechanical aptitude don’t get…

People who sell college, and “opinion leaders” who went to college, are all about selling the product and not looking foolish.

Agreed 100%. For our parents, you couldn’t make any money unless you went to college, or so they believed, so that’s what they told us. It’s not the case anymore, and we end up spending a quarter of our lives in debt for an average salary. While the smart kids who went to tech school or apprenticeships are now…

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