“If we could only buy cars from CEOs where were great people, there wouldn’t be much to buy.”

You know most people don’t tow heavy loads daily, there are a LOT of truck owners who never tow a single thing. If you have a boat and take it to the lake sure you need a truck but a lot of them never tow a thing. And you could 100% tow with it, my mom towed a bass boat with her 3rd generation Pontiac Grand Am in the…

Fair enough, but I don’t know if that explains losing something like $70k in value over a couple of years, if I am remembering the Shmee video correctly.

Yup, a couple years ago my moms husband was looking to trade in his truck and they went to the local MB dealer, at least as my mom tells it, the salesman were actively steering them AWAY from an MB EV. I don’t think he was in the market for one, but at least as it was relayed to me the MB guy was saying they were…

100% this, this absolutely covers 99% of what any person who “needs” a truck needs one for.

I mean if we had the lane discipline they do in Germany we could drive faster, most roads IMO can in ideal conditions allow traveling a good bit above the limit safely, highways that is. But you have people who can’t be bothered to even get CLOSE to 70 before trying to merge, that fucks up traffic for everyone and a…

Well to be fair though when you take your car to Singer there really isn’t a single piece they DON’T touch. Also keep in mind that $300k and up, is on TOP of your donor car you take to them. I could be remembering wrong but they don’t really “build” a car you bring your Porsche to them and commission a build.

Yup and it will do that on street tires. EV’s have had way more power than they need for a while. That said, they are MUCH better and controlling that power that a Tesla can do a 2 sec 0-60 and not melt the tires is a master class in TC

Well to be fair most people CAN drive a 400hp car, 400hp in 2024 isn’t 400hp in 1967 mins is a bit over 350 and it’s a boring ass sedan lol.

lol well to be fair I have ZERO concept on that construction equipment costs. I just had no idea one of those little guys could run that kind of money.

Today I learned a skid steer is $100k WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK. Like big backhoe or something sure that tiny little thing GTFO

Also kind of the plot for Triple 9

Very true, like supercars in the 70's/80's/90's were kind of actively trying to murder you if you weren’t 100% focused on driving. Now with all the modern tech and safety features just about anyone can hop into say a Bugatti/Ferrari/Lamborghini and drive around just fine so long as they don’t have a lead foot.

Preaching to the choir my friend lol. TxDot actively fucked up many of the roads they even added 2 roundabouts to the main arterial road behind my house where there was not and never will be any cross streets lol.

That’s freaking hilarious, so so true. Nissan used to make some actually pretty decent cheap cars, now they just make cheap cars that aren’t particularly good.

“GM has the Suburban & Yukon, might as well do a 2 door short version”

I don’t even think it’s that. Has capacity increased I mean sure but it isn’t increasing range, same with same with charging speed. There haven’t been real massive improvements, just small one’s and certainly not ones that explain the massive depreciation of EV’s. Even when you compare price competitive ICE vehicles…

That’s a big problem locally. They reconfigured the on/off ramps on the highway a while back so that the on ramp and off ramp are close, it incentives getting on the highway strictly to avoid a cross street light and also when you exit you spend a long time on the feeder versus being on the highway during that time.…

Add in that if you buy new, with a loan, you are almost certainly underwater well before you would be on any ICE comparable car.  Buying new, with a loan, makes absolutely zero sense.

It’s partly Elon finally going full Nazi, you never go full Nazi, but it’s also that Tesla keeps dropping the MSRP of their new cars which is going to hurt the value or used models.  I don’t care that you paid X more new than that SAME car’s new price, your used model is not worth as much as it was before the new…