Not sad to see the disruptor companies doing badly, but obviously they are the canaries in the coal mine as far as the economy as a whole is concerned.

My car is a 1993 Honda Today Associe, a kei car. Kind of the Mercedes CLS of kei cars, a four-door “coupé” with an unnecessarily low roofline. When me, my wife, and our two children ride in it we can only sit in one particular arrangement since the booster only fits in the front passenger seat and the kid’s seat only…

90 percent of Twitter users never did to begin with.

I feel like Geely’s usual methodology will mean four or five (or eight) new “swedish” brands. I suggest Amazon, Gyllenhammar, Gothenburg, Nyfiken for a start. Hell, bring back DAF while they’re at it.

Half the Instagram videos are just reposts from Tik-Tok, as far as I can tell.

Don’t forget the 456! (~5500cc / 12). I guess I always thought of it as a four-cylinder rule, but I guess it may have only been because there were no Ferrari fours after the 860.

I like cars and I like both the sound of a V8 (especially an Italian one) and this bonkers swap. I just hope the 3-liter V8 found its way into a Toyota Cressida or something (can’t think of a suitable RWD Honda).

I love everything about this, but “244" (while clever) is not what Ferrari ought to have called this car. The four-cylinder Ferraris were generally named after the displacement of each individual cylinder, rounded when they felt like it: Ferrari 500, 625, 735, 750, 857, 860. This car should have been called Ferrari…

To me, remote start seems merely to be a way for people to spew out additional emissions, hurt their car, and waste fossil fuels. I don’t think it should be allowed to begin with, but it still seems unfair to take it away for no real reason.

It is also much more repairable than a newer car. Or at least until that one part seizes to be available.

I think Lexus has a large proportion of older owners. Old people also whinge amongst themselves, so there are probably five dudes in his VFW that won’t buy a new Lexus now.

I fully expect most features to not work or stop working soon. As a matter of fact, features are a negative for me as they are just more things that can break. Example: The power antenna just gave out in my Caldina, whereas my Today has a little stinger antenna that you just pull out by hand. A friend has spent over a…

And this is why I will never buy a new car. Well, this and the somewhat strained relationship between my income, student loans, and mortgage.

There is definitely some lag - I deal with Contractors a lot, and some of them are building at a huge loss based on contracts signed earlier. And their prices still haven’t caught up.

I have a Ford Focus wagon with a rusted away rear end for $2,200. Should be good for another year or two, I just got to finish moving house with it first. My 70yo mother just borrowed it and drove ~1,500 miles (NYC to Quebec and all over the place in between) with only a CEL for an open fuel tank lid. It’s... safeish.

When people use math to support whatever it is they wanted to do anyhow, I always smile a little. But the point still remains, it can make sense to buy the more expensive item if you are choosing between two of them.

“If you don’t want to get saddled with a high car payment, ask yourself: What do I really need to accomplish with this vehicle, and what’s the most economical way to do that?”

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Add to that that building new cars is NOT GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT either.

It will take a while for all of the other gasoline vehicles to disappear. If they do mostly disappear (I doubt it, I think electric has some issues) then buying gas will be the equivalent of buying fodder for a horse. Only for the wealthy, and probably taken care of by others.