We’ll pay the increase through higher shipping costs. They’ll probably wait for Christmas to be a “disaster” (for people who need their junk) to piss everyone off so they can raise rates and people will accept it.

My generally upbeat grandfather lived to 103. He outlived all his younger siblings, friends, his decade-younger wife, and my mother. He told me that was too long to live. Of course, if you’re an egocentric billionaire, it might not matter to lose people.

Of course I haven’t driven this car, but I can guarantee my early ‘80s Subaru GLs with manual steering were more fun than this will be, just much slower, but they weren’t anywhere near $30k, either. I think for the price, it should be competitive with the other brands and it’s not like the 1.5T has been as bulletproof…

Good thing there’s the regular Civic with an auto, even with the same engine with a different tune or just about every single other vehicle available, usually to the exclusion of an option for the more fun and reliable older tech.

Yeah, the better performance metrics of most modern cars can only hide the boring drive and uninspiring design for so long, but maybe it fools people who never drove something that was actually fun. Then again, hardly anyone buys performance cars anymore, so maybe not.

I think you got the answer: they’re nearing the end and aren’t putting much money into them. They’re low-profit cars and that money makes more business sense to go into electrics.

Oh, I don’t doubt it. I remember seeing a documentary or whatever it was years ago about some guy connected to Escobar who was looking into getting a decommed Russian sub for him. The Russian contact asked him if he wanted it with or without missiles.

Hahaha, I pretty much stopped replying due to damn Kinja. I miss the days of useful forums (and pre goddamn social media).

I keep reading that, but with my last three cars, I revisited the dealer 1 time for each—2 for quick in-out recalls and once for my free oil change where they damaged my front bumper cover and had to replace it. It’s not like I’m buying Toyotas, either (a Mazda and two Fords).

I’ve actually had two good experiences at Ford dealers of all places. First time, I special ordered a Focus to get a manual. I imagine because my income was way above the usual for such a thing and I knew what I wanted, which was pretty specific, and he wasn’t an idiot, he probably figured he would be highly unlikely…

The cartels have been having these built in all different places for years and, like this one, they’re often not full submersibles since it’s much cheaper and faster to make and pilot and the low visible signature still significantly reduces the likelihood of getting caught. They aren’t cheap, but one successful load…

JFC, I doubt any of these sad wannabe English teachers ass-moaning about an obvious autocorrect error on an obviously low-effort throwaway article are published anywhere and have gone through that process.

What the site should have at a minimum is a proofreader. Finding proofreading mistakes in one’s own work is…

Hopefully, it won’t spread further, but I’d be wary about MA following suit on canceling Kei—or maybe any Japanese VIN—registrations.

This! Cars are almost always a consumable expense, not assets beyond any depreciating value they may hold at a given time (which is really of limited use if the car is needed by the user and, thus, can’t afford to sell it unless they’re going to trade down). People keep going on about depreciation when it comes to…

It seems like a decent option for someone trying to rebuild credit. Anywhere they go with a bad score, they’re going to get screwed and if that under 10% is the low end score rate, that’s much better than what they’d get at a lot of other places and could be getting them into a new car for less or the same as a…

My sister had a 2011. A terrible driving, horrifying POS with a dying transmission and the general feel of near EOL when they got rid of it at under 100k.

Especially with those reactive AWD systems, there’s not reason to even bother, just get FWD with a set of proper snow tires on their own rims and swap them and that will go farther than AWD with the usual all seasons people use.

That Rogue is probably on its way to a 3rd transmission. Reliable is not a word I’d use for them. But for $5k and these requirements, he’s scraping the barrel and should take whatever pops up that fits and expect to maybe get a couple years out of it before it will become a toilet.

Yawn.

We had the Ego. Could just do ~1.5 acres of grass on the two larger batteries. No issues with it, but we just changed to paying a landscaper.