I think there is some mathematical confusion here. 56*36 is $2016. Using January 1957 to January 2023 (1957 as the midpoint of a 1956-1958 payment term) and the CPI inflation calculator, that would come out to roughly $21850 in payments or $ 27300 in total costs.

If you have an allocation for another car you’ve been waiting on, why go buy another car? Just keep waiting for the one you want. The unaffordability is questionable as well given his nonchalant attitude toward taking a loss on this sale.

I post this ever time we have these articles but:

I had a first gen Fit for years. It was amazing. If you only needed the front two seats, you could cram an amazing amount of stuff in that thing. I brought home a normal sized loveseat in the back with the hatch shut once and moved everything my future wife owned another. Fantastic car.

I don’t think the price is quite as bad as everyone is saying. Vans aren’t cheap to start with these days. They seem to have taken down the configurator for the Transit (updating maybe), but I recently configured an AWD 148 wheelbase, mid-roof, crew van (two rows of seats), and I believe it came to somewhere around…

Well when the other option is a Maseratti, you have to think hard.

The deposit is refundable, at least according to the dealer I ordered from.

I would prefer AT to MT tires on a PHEV as I don’t want to completely destroy range, but overall this is a pretty appealing spec and not terribly priced (with the tax incentives). I’d consider it.

And even better, 300s seem to depreciate more than the non-V6 Chargers. I suspect this one might become a cult classic, but there may be a dip period where you can pick one up at a pretty reasonable price compared to a similar Charger.

The thing is that this isn’t really a daily driver in a traditional sense. He works form home and has another more practical car in the family. He wants it for driving events and road trips, which is very different from needing to use yoru track car as a commuter.

Can you still get a short wheelbase Transit Connect in the United States? I know you can’t in the passenger version similar to the Sienta in this article, though I’m not sure if you could special order a short wheelbase commercial van. I haven’t seen one in a long while on lots/the road. The ubiquitous version is…

1. I think this is notably smaller than both, at least the current generation.

I don’t think the Mazda is too big, it just has apparently bad ergonomics/visibility for a short person. That often has a lot more to do with seat to window/windshield height, seat to pedal distance, and how adjustable the steering wheel is.

It’s nonsense that people think that people with different preferences must be somehow beneath them. What do you get out of it? Feeling superior?

Overall, it seems to offer a lot more than the F150 Lightning in some types of performance. It is much more powerful while being roughly the same weight and (as one would expect) accelerates notably faster. The cross-linked hydraulic dampers apparently make it handle amazingly well for such a large vehicle. Ford…

I’m a current Transit Connect owner. I’d absolutely buy a new one based on the Maverick hybrid platform. Especially if they put half the thought into the interior as they did the Maverick. I’m an outdoorsy person and for lugging gear there are few vehicles that can match the useful space of the Transit Connect at…

Why use the Frontier from 7 years ago when comparing it to the current truck?

I don’t really understand this. The Frontier is 3 inches taller and two feet longer (in similar four dour configuration. It’s 10 inches longer otherwise). That’s not a bit here and there, in height and length that’s roughly the same difference as between an Frontier and and F150 Super Crew with the 6.5ft bed (though…

I think Tom’s strategy of a “hold me over car” is correct, but the most obvious answer here would seem to be to fix the Grand Caravan and just use that until you can get a hybrid Maverick or used hybrid Sienna/Pacifica in your price range. It depends on how much the torque converter costs to fix, but the fuel cost…

I have a 2014 Transit Connect and I half agree. It definitely has some terrible interior finishing. On the other hand, I have no problem cruising at 80+ on western highways (and merging in Vegas traffic), so maybe you’re talking about the first US gen.