If we have someone pay for a truck with a cashier’s check, it takes 10 business days for the funds to 100% clear. I won’t hand over a set of keys or a title until that 10 days has passed. 

What is happening is, well, it is capitalism. Run everything as cheap as you can, as hard as you can, until it breaks, and hope you’ve moved on from your position with the profits before the breaking happens to someone else. It is a mindset that has been applied to machines, to people, and to the very infrastructural…

My summary.

Yep friend worked for an airline before Covid, didn’t go back as he got a better job with less weird hours, they are hurting for employees and will basically take anybody with a pulse

My guess: in the strive for StOnKs MuSt Go Up everything is getting thinned out - maintenance crews, support crews, staff, (ATC to an extent but that’s more manufactured government dysfunction)...etc. Everything that makes the system work smoothly has been slowly chipped away to make more money and we’re really…

Thankfully the body shop will have their headlights waiting for them now.

Yeah fake cashiers checks is a thing now, and under no circumstances would I part with my property until both banks involved said everything was straight. Heck a lot of banks put a hold on deposits via check, cashiers or otherwise, for a few days just for that purpose to make sure everything is good on both ends.

Ex Chevy dealer tech from back then. I PDI’d some of these when new, and they were shitty cars even back then. And they haven’t improved any 28 years later. Terrible, cheap, hard, poorly fitted plastic interiors, mushy seats, wheezy engines, sloppy handling and vague brakes. And as noted, not a lot of standard content…

This car is so dull and boring to drive that the previous owner must have forgot they even had it. Either that or they only drove it when they absolutely had to, hence less than 1,000 miles per year. $8k is a bonkers price for a fleet spec car that will disappoint you every time your cheeks meet the seat.  

Counterpoint. It won't last forever, it just seems like forever.

I know it is low miles and seems to be in very good shape. I know the market has moved up a lot for most everything, but this is 90s GM badness, cheap interiors and scratchy clunky switchgear and all that goes with it. Can’t bring myself to nice price this one.

I don’t care how low the mileage is or how good of a condition it’s in, there isn’t a Chevy Lumina in the world worth nearly $8k. It was the epitome of 90s GM snoozefest sedans.

Database Administrator has been fired. Beatings will continue until morale improves

The only proper way to acquire this car is from your grandparent’s estate. 

That interior is super depressing.  BTW- did all of our avatars get nuked?

The whole point of buying a car like this is to get it for next to nothing, so when the inherent ’90s GM-ness asserts itself, you’ve probably had it long enough to get your money’s worth. I know the next-to-nothing bar ain’t what it used to be, but nearly $8K? Nah.

It does not.

How much would you expect for 175 hp being funneled through a CVT?

1,500 pounds towing capacity seems ridiculously low

I have been an industry analyst for 15+ years and am part of the segmentation committee for the automaker I work for. I know a thing or two about how these things happen. Interior volume is indeed one factor, but far from the most important. While there will be slight differences among how some automakers and other…