I bought my 2016 Miata Launch Edition sight unseen in 2015. I was a Miata owner and Mazda knew it so I had gotten emails soliciting orders for one of the 1000 LEs that would be among the first NDs to arrive in the U.S. However, numerous publications and Youtube channels had already gotten their hands on NDs and were…

ND. If only because to buy it you’d have to meet this guy.

That must involve a pretty small down payment.

Focus on the word left out of the headline. It should have read “The Average Transaction Price of a New Car . . . .”

“. . . the median household incomes of Malibu, California and Montauk, New York. In 2019, these were around $151,000 and $101,000 respectively.”

There are a few diehard fans of these and a tiny collectors market but it would take an extremely nice one — and preferably a convertible — to approach $10,000 in value. You have to assume both of these are going to require some work beyond the things you can see in the ad. (Suggestion for sellers: pictures of…

Yes, but technically it wasn’t a Dodge platform, it was based on the Fiat Compact Platform as was the second generation Chrysler 200 and the Pacifica. The next newest Dodge product would be the Durango.

You can find androgynous zones on city streets but not in a car.

Why not buy one that’s actually enjoyable to drive?

Ford counts the Bronco and Bronco Sport as two separate models and reports sales figures separately. Adding them together was the author’s idea.

Out of curiosity I looked at Consumer Reports review. Their verdict:

Or purchased as a gag gift by some wealthy person for their spouse.

As you know despite short term ups and downs, over the long term the stock market generates growth between 10-12%. Playing a long-game strategy and staying the course means winning more than you lose.

Good points. And points people who advocate for paying cash for a car seem to miss. I bought a new 2020 Fusion three weeks before the pandemic hit. Ford had $2000 on the hood, dealer threw in some more, and I qualified for 0% financing from FMC. Hell yes I’ll take the loan. The amount of principal that’s still sitting…

Ford will probably quickly follow Toyota across the 200,000 mark once it starts ramping up deliveries of the F-150 Lightning. I think it has less than 50,000± units to go.

Hovering back and forth over the two buttons, honestly unable to decide for just a bit, I finally hit ND. Might as well have tossed a coin. It is pretty tired but at least the seller is honest about its condition. The price is little more than pocket change but I just couldn’t come up with a good reason why I would…

After flunking my test the first time* on the main family car, a Ford with an automatic, my second try was on my parents’ second car, a Rambler with a manual. Passed with flying colors.

It would be incorrect to say it was the same company.

For giggles I added sales figures for all the vehicles based on the Escape platform, i.e., the Escape, Bronco Sport, Maverick, Corsair. Combined, sales of those vehicles were up 38% over 2020. It still wasn’t enough to offset the drop in Fusion sales alone, but . . .