I think it’s a well understood risk. Car are also lasting longer.  Just means better stuff on the used market (especially the off lease ones).

Discounting bro-dozers, that’s probably 100% accurate ... but not for the reason you think.

The part that’s missing in all of this is everything NOT involved with final assembly. Design, engineering and everything else you can think of. It’s never black and white. A US built car may have tons of foreign parts due to global supply chain. A foreign built car may have had the majority of it’s design and…

This has one key difference between it and the subprime housing fiasco ... everybody thought houses would appreciate so lenders held no risk in a default. (Which proved to be very, very wrong.) That’s not a concern here as no one is expecting their vehicle to appreciate once they drive off the lot. That should have at…

My thoughts exactly. Drive it. *Hoon it. Break it. Fix it. Repeat.

Don’t know I’d call it a great decision ... but certainly a better financial decision than owning anything Italian and fast if you’re going to actually drive it!

To further that, most employees in call centers are rated at least in part based on how many calls they resolve. This means that they have every incentive to get you off of the phone with them ... outlast them. “You are not helping resolve my problem” will be picked up by the automated voice recognition software…

Sure maybe more wear and tear dragging around all that weight. Also may limit his minutes a little bit as it takes more energy to move around that size.

If my $50k MSRP car is selling for $65k regularly ... you can bet that next year I’m going to have an MSRP of $60k and change NOTHING but the price to the dealer. If they can wring another $5k out let them have it.

To be fair, I bet there would be a lot of NIMBY hand-wringing and environmental protest if we were to setup large scale lithium mines in either Utah or Nevada.

That’s it. He’s the Geoffery Baratheon of basketball. In the proud Duke tradition of Christian Laettner before him ... first of his name.

All the stars. I feel exactly the same way. We have a ‘66 Mustang convertible that sees quite a bit of use. Was my wife’s grandfather’s he ordered new in ‘66. No we don’t drive it in the winter with all the salt, but we use it. Plus I haven’t fixed the heater blower ... that would suck in Michigan. Winter is the time…

Go to dipyourcar ... spray it fluorescent pink.   A couple weeks later, neon green.  Cycle through as many as your wallet allows.

If it’s a “Tweel” then are we now considering the entire wheel a maintenance item? Namely, now you get the pleasure of buying all new rims & tires every time you used to just need tires?

No love for the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) ???

RE: Maintenance, for some of us that’s a big part of the fun. Have an old Mustang in the garage ... always fiddling with something on it. Carb, timing ... all that stuff is super easy. If it’s broke or needs adjusting you can probably get to it easily, generally you can fix it with some combination of a crescent…

The screen doesn’t control my HVAC, heated seats, defroster or audio volume. I have a 7 or 8 inch touchscreen that will 99% of the time be running Android Auto doing either navigation or Spotify ... all voice controlled. Rest are nice chunky physical buttons/knobs.

You think using Android Auto amounts to distracted driving? If that’s the case the following would be distracted driving as well...

Find a gas station with “Recreation Fuel” in your area. I think the sire is puregas.org or something like that. Rec Fuel is what I put in my ‘66 that’s carb’d. 91 octane, no ethanol ... it REALLY helped out.

You just perfectly described what I’d implement if I was king of the world. We could start off even easier by simply making the interest on student loans reflect the probability of repayment with a degree in that field. Going in to business school? STEM? Medicine? Pretty low rate. Fine arts? That’s a riskier…