You can drive around ABS. Lots of cars have the ability to disable their stability control systems and if you disable your airbags and drive on the street you’re a fucking idiot.

In terms of ill-advised E-nanny unplugging, I would rank blindspot warning systems near the bottom of the worry list. 

If you want to be facetious, yes. But when you’re talking about traffic, you’re typically talking about anything that requires a CDL to operate.

The first paragraph was pretty much my thinking. Once something breaks you’re up the creek with the repair bill. 

7% isn’t good, but it’s also not bad. 

There’s 3 types of liars.

Commercial truck’s don’t typically like being on surface streets and surface streets aren’t typically made for commercial trucks. 

I was really hoping this was the guy from Daily Driven Exotics.

Unless you’re job is literally to sell cars. 

Mexico has a very different standard of living and the wages that go along with it. 

Or people that only use their car for commuting, or otherwise short trips.

Buying from Canada is more like buying from your neighbor than someone that lives the next state over. 

That’s about right. The dealer taking the trade in has a guy that assesses whether they can make money off it. If they can’t make money, or they don’t have room, it goes to auction. Sometimes they’ll also go by default if they’ve sat on the lot for too long, typically 90 days. 

Then why not spend a couple grand more and get one that didn’t have ~$15k of accident repair done to it? 

It has a salvage title.

Would someone like Carmax even touch a car with a salvage title?

Painting the top section black mostly hides the “uniqueness”.

Until proven otherwise. 

One of the first casualties would be the trade-in value of anything with a somewhat current recall campaign on it.

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