After being dragged to several of these by my 7 year old son, I can tell you kids seats are NOT “fiiive bucks”.

Frustrating. I can only view the video this Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!

Oh people not realizing and seeing them is certainly a real thing to be concerned about, but contrary to the headline (which I freely acknowledge Tom may not have written himself) and a general tone of this being treated as “insane” or otherwise “taking advantage” of someone, the numbers in play are fundamentally…

But 6% even on a car this age is not good for someone with really strong credit. And at this loan amount, small difference in interest make a big difference in payment and total loan cost.

I work at a dealership that routinely leases high-end used cars, and sometimes I just can’t wrap my head around the deals people take. People who literally make millions of dollars a year who want to lease a 100K+ car and only have around a $500 payment. Even if they have to put a ton of money down at signing, or set…

This is... really not surprising at all... The ~6.5% interest rate is a little high but that’s about it.

Really, this is a purchase, with the option to hand the car back to the dealer rather than make the last balloon payment.

You should follow this up with an article about used car leasing. The issue with this transaction is that the leasing company is taking on a VERY hefty portion of the risk involved, hence the high interest rate. Did the sender give you any info on their credit history? That’s obviously a contributory factor,…

The user serviceability thing is bunk.

I’m of the thought that a significant mandate’s going to be necessary if electric vehicles ever catch on in the U.S.

That should be a flag that it’s not a good idea at this stage. Let the demand come naturally, let the best idea win instead of trying to pick a winner from on high.

“I’m of the thought that a significant mandate’s going to be necessary if electric vehicles ever catch on in the U.S., and California’s the logical—and obvious—place where this might begin. I’m just not sure our current administration would be too fond of it, and car enthusiasts may find it incredibly hard to fathom…

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I’m pretty sure this article is bait so NIMBYs can find out who’s building something and complain to local authorities about it.

Here, you can accelerate vertically faster than you can fall. Falling limits your acceleration to 9.8... meters per second squared, where as nearly falling but while also accelerating could theoretically accelerate you at a higher rate. This illustration here should help identify what I am talking about:

I parked my Pathfinder for a month and ending up driving a sparrow family to work and back a few times before I realized. The nest was by the battery right against the hood. Once I found out I parked it again until all the little guys had grown up and flown away.

I had the top slashed and my seats stolen from the car, and then the car filled with 1/2" of water over the weekend. The worst part was that all the doors were already unlocked...

Maybe the solution is not to encourage people to want more than they can afford.

“In the end, you sign the papers, if you don’t have a good grasp of what is happening, you have to know that whatever they are selling you is in their best interest to sell. You better know what you’re getting yourself into.”

Life doesn’t have to be about car payments. Sell the car to a private buyer which will bring more than a trade-in. Save up enough $$$ to pay the deficit plus a little extra for a cheap $3-4K truck. Drive the cheap truck and pay yourself the $431/mo, that’s $5000 after 1 year. If you can drive the cheap truck for 2…