Those leases are really going to bite them in the ass in a few years when they have a huge glut of off-lease vehicles they’ll have trouble moving.

If I saw something like that and had some free time on my hands, I would definitely go to the dealership and pretend I’m interested, eat their snacks, drink their coffee, burn their gas, or energy, on a very long test drive, pretend I need to “make a quick call” while I go watch some youtube videos somewhere while…

our first ev lease cost us $6000 total after 3 years (not to mention saving $100/month on the payment from our previous car)... on top of that, our insurance went up about $30/month and, annual reg went up about $100... but we saved about $160/month on gas. and to your point, we didnt have to buy tires for our…

I have the $50 Leaf in my driveway. It could have been $29 but I put the $500 down into the payment because... why not. So - your math definitely checks out. I had a ‘09 Cayenne GTS getting 13mpg on premium, and I also had a lot of surplus energy coming from my roof solar. So I sold the Cayenne, leased the Leaf,…

Funkiller—but wait, maybe hard to calculate, but if you have another car you are saving on its depreciation and wear/maintenance items like tires and brakes and fluids. Did I get us to practically free yet?  Say you put 25K on the Fiat instead of your car, that is at least a half a set of tires and maybe five oil…

I looked at it and the car isn’t there anymore, but unless this was a demo all the other 500e models they have are the exact same price so it could potentially be the same for all of them. The fine print though does say that it doesn’t include the $699 acquisition fee and TTL, so you’re still either putting something…

I told him the same thing about the Leafs and he basically called me an idiot. So I guess we’re both idiots.

I see ads for $39/month blazers and equinoxes and shit too. $5k from the state plus $7500 from the fed makes the leases extremely lucrative.

It’s a scam. the car is probably sold already. I had a similar situation with a Ioniq 5 Limited. Advertised lease for $99/mo, $0 down, 36 months. I called the dealer (was about 1 hour away) and kept asking if the car was on the lot and available and I kept getting the runaround. eventually they admitted the car was…

“Ekstam told The Drive he hired 1 Way to turn a Ford F-450 Super Duty into a six-door creation he could use for promotions.”

At this stage, whenever I hear “diesel shop”, I hear “illegal”,”rolling coal”, “fraud”, and “con”.

I like the idea of this, if only for the aspect of a cheap plug in SUV with a low monthly payment. But where do you go if you have a fender bender, or even something like the issue that Ocean had in one of Jalopnik’s articles where the charge port got messed up; it was only a $100 part, but if you have no…

“Remember when some Wall Street bozos thought VinFast, maker of one of the worst-reviewed cars, was worth more than America’s Big Three automakers combined?”

Thanks for answering the inevitable Fisker inventory question. While Vinfast may cheap at the end of the day it’s the Nissan Versa or Mitsubishi Mirage of EVs, a barely competent vehicle noteworthy only for low cost.

Maybe they should use that as part of their marketing “Better than a Cybertruck”

The joke is on Porsche. They think these cars are driven. They are only kept in temperature-controlled and taken to auctions every 5 or so years for the owner to make a profit. 

Same, here in Florida, though the difference is not large. For me it’s gone back and forth a couple times between the Gecko and Flo. I shop around every single year. One will lowball, then try to raise the rates considerably in a year or two, and I switch again. I haven’t had a claim for other than a broken windshield…

Medical Loss Ratio Rebates, if your health insurance doesn’t spend 80% on actual health care costs they have to refund a portion back to the insured. I actually qualified for one a few years ago, but I didn’t get anything back because my employer at the time paid 100% of my insurance so they got the refund.

Wasn’t there some kind of insurance regulation when Obama was in office that required insurance providers to reimburse their customers if they made over a certain percentage of profit? I wonder whatever happened to that. I assume it either got repealed or they found fun accounting tricks to hide it.

Geico is by far my cheapest option and I dont really know how. Progressive was robbing me blind before switching.