For me, the “Halloween costume” reduces, rather than raises, the value. ND. 

I’m in this somewhat weird position where I think that we should have a lot more aggressive towing of parking violators on public streets, but that it should also be more tightly regulated. 

Depends on the state.  In most places, you’re taxed on just the lease payments.  In New York, Illinois, and (I think) Texas, you have to pay sales tax on the full price of the car. 

Hiro Protagonist has definitely come down in the world. 

Driving any vehicle that is classified as a light truck for fuel economy purposes should require a CDL. 

We all say that, otherwise we’d have 5mph speed limits.

All cars should remain stock. 

And it can happen. My Volvo has reservoir caps for coolant and washer fluid on opposite sides of the engine bay, and the icons aren’t that drastically different.  I once came relatively close to absent-mindedly putting washer fluid into the radiator. 

Exactly. The lease is an option - never exercise one early. 

I’m especially surprised by how nice the interior looks.  Keeping it clean and indoors, and not running into stuff, should keep the exterior in pretty good shape, but, even assuming that the miles are almost all highway, so a 60mph average speed, someone’s sat in that driver’s seat for over 5,000 hours.  

I’m not sure this really qualifies as a car, more a really attractive speaker mount. 

In a country with 335 million people, a huge number of extremely unlikely things happen twice a week. What I’m saying is that getting killed as a result of a traffic stop is extremely unlikely. That 1 in 150k also includes a bunch of people who ran, or pulled a gun, etc. Not defending police violence, just saying…

Or the stock lights on any Escalade. 

There’s plenty of space in the back of a London taxi to create a really comfortable luxury interior. That is...not it.

The odds of being killed as part of a traffic stop are around 150,000:1.

If there was a way to buy a bumper-to-bumper warranty on this thing for $1k/year, I’d do it in a heartbeat. 

I street park my car, so an EV really wouldn’t work for me at the moment.  My next car will definitely be a hybrid, particularly since most of my driving is city driving, where the hybrid benefit really shines. 

Thing is, if you’re prepared to have a $2500/month payment, you could make this pencil out, even with a high interest rate. 10% rate, 72 month term, $95k+29k negative equity-7.5k down=$116,500 financed, you get a $2,150 payment. 

He must have rolled some negative equity into that Genesis loan to be $29k underwater on a car with only 11k miles. 

I’m not a fan of Ramsey’s advice in general, but this guy would benefit.