Except you don’t pay wages without making money on the products you sell. Pretty sure the sales manager would be more upset if they sold you a car for zero profit and didn’t even get you to take out a loan so they could make it up on the back end.

Just don't do this on the electric build.

What you should do is discuss with your credit union about refinancing an auto loan. Most credit unions do this, the cost is usually minimal, and the rates are still competitive. This would allow you to take whatever rate the dealer wants to push and lower it later through your credit union.

A used dealer that knows what it is doing is checking prices and adjusting to the market regularly. I worked at a place where the used car manager did every morning. I forget the site(s) he used, but they moved a lot of metal. If the car sits for any length of time, it is either overpriced or otherwise not…

Major props to the drivers on this one. Having owned a Corvair, I can vouch for how bizarrely it behaves in low traction situations. Stepping on the brakes in snow causes the whole car to slide perpendicular to where you’re traveling. Great for parallel parking, but not much else.

No way. The difference in weight would kill the Camry in corners and under braking. The BRZ at 2800lbs has the same size front brakes as the Camry at at least 3200lbs. The base Camry weights 420 lbs more than the BRZ. The V6 even more. The Camry has no LSD so coming out of a corner the inside wheel would simply spin…

I think we take for granted how fast a modern Camry is. I think a modern Camry is approaching 0-60 times of the 90's Supras.

The manual is actually faster?!

You missed a few things which any old trucker could’ve told you. First off, in trucker parlance, these are called “Maxis”, as opposed to the non-spring brakes, which were just called “cans”. On your typical 18-wheelers, you’ll find maxis on only the last drive axle and the 2 trailer axles, never on the steer, and…

My next car will be an EV, probably within the next 2 years. Barring some galactic quality-control shift, I won’t even be cross-shopping Tesla. They absolutely broke the barrier and did wonders to get EVs more in the mainstream, but they still put out a ‘meh’ product (IMO) and basically, just don’t seem reliable…

TYPO? I think you meant to say “a purchase order is not quite the same as a binding document?” Or is it the same and it’s awkwardly worded?

Just an unfortunate place to drop a word since it’s answering the question.

What I’d like to know about this report is are they counting all of the emissions generated extracting oil, transporting it to a refinery, processing it, and then transporting the finished product to the gas station, which has to use power to pump into an ICE?

Your making somewhat exaggerated assumptions.

“That door is ratchet strapped shut so you’ll have to go to the driver’s side”

1. Cars are more reliable than ever.

Also the weight factor. That truck can tow 10,000lbs. But now you’re putting a trailer behind it with 1800lb of batteries, plus the reinforcements to carry that extra weight? So your 10,000lb tow rating really gets you about 5,000lb of stuff you can tow, just as the trade-off.

The real answer here is that if you tow larger trailers longer distances, this probably isn’t the truck for you (though the Hybrid F-150 probably is).

But the reality is that for the *three quarters of a million* F-150s sold last year, there’s an incredibly large number of owners that don’t tow anything, or tow very…

The problem with putting a battery into the trailer is well... Cost. Now you have a $5000 trailer with at least $7500 worth of batteries attached to it. Most people would rather just buy a diesel F150 or something and save a years worth of running cost instead.

That’ll be a very expensive trailer? RVs maybe. But normal boat or u-haul trailers, no way.