If I bought something based primarily on a brand experience, I would kill myself.

this. those are extremely expensive, and IMO they could have better spent the money elsewhere. or saved it and reduced the sticker price.

Pedantic Mode:

Gull Wings aren’t the same thing as Falcon Wings.

The Model X has Falcon Wings.

/Pedantic Mode

(And I honestly wish they’d just gone with regular doors.)

It did if you expected it delivered on schedule...

See my comment above, but Tesla is like Apple in a sense they are selling a brand experience. People like that...it’s not too different than people that freak out over the new iPhone.

Do you live in the bottom of a salt marsh or something....Jesus, that rust is hurting me.

This looks like the kind of mistake I would want to make.

Not surpised to see you said Southern California. I see truck license plates on sedans reasonably often and even plates with a sequence too low to even possibly be for the car they’re on here.

$350 a month on an IS250 for 8 years is $34,000. They don’t even sticker for that low, much less interest and taxes, so I’d pay that in a heartbeat!

This actually happened to my mom back in the early 60's, only it was my fault. I liked to draw, so I drew their Illinois license plate on cardboard and taped it onto their license plate so I could take a picture of it. It was actually a pretty good rendering too. Of course, being a kid with a 10 minute attention span,…

“Licence and registration, please”

Probably gonna get flak for this, but as much as the guy is an idiot, he didn't intend for those people to die. Life in prison for being an idiot? While we take intentional wife beaters and give them 10 years? Seems unfitting, in both cases.

Lol the really odd part is I’m in the 750 neighborhood and all I get is the monthly Barclaycard spam mailer. You guys must be in the target bubble for collectable interest.

I doubt that buyers who are financing new cars with a ten year loan are the type to drive it till the wheels fall off. They’re likely to trade it in before it’s paid off.

Problem is people, not the banks. They need to teach finances in middle school and high school.

Well within reason a longer loan can be a very effective way to get a car. Keep in mind that you can always pay more to reduce interest and most loans allow that without penalty. If something were to happen to your job however its easier to buffer a lower car payment than one for 4 years with a higher monthly payment.

Those sorts of loans work if you plan on keeping a car for a long time. They don’t work when you’re a dumbass travelling salesperson and think that you can now afford a 5 series with your $600 a car allowance, and 3 years into the loan it has 160,000 miles on it and you are upside down approximately $25,000.

Its like, you’re an adult. And responsible and, like, stuff. Sucks doesn’t it? I wish I could have bought that 40K Charger Road and Track and financed it for 5 years with a gigantic balloon payment. BUT THEY TOLD ME I WAS APPROVED?!?!. I agree, it is so tempting when you get a truck load of offers. Stay away from the…

Harley was doing that on bikes many years ago.

THIS. A good friend of mine (who’s an idiot), was upside down on on their Ford Edge. They did the reasonable thing and traded it in on a lease on a brand new Malibu and now pays north of $500/mo for a goddamn lease on a $23k car.