Love Corrado’s, and this one is uber clean, but $27k? Unless the trunk is loaded w cash or drugs, CP all day.

“Our parents and grandparents could fit their whole family into one small car.”

I am for a free market, but the new urbanists are not.

“What urbanists want is to stop local governments from forcing people to build more parking than they want.”

I spent a good amount of time on a new urbanist site. That’s the sales pitch but under closer examination and pushing them the veil comes unglued. See I am vehicular bicyclist as well and their changes to the roadscape are very dangerous for me to ride in my preferred manner as traffic. They are even more dangerous…

I replaced a twenty-year-old car last year, and the dealership keeps telling me to wait until the dash tells me to take it in for an oil change. I’m an Old, and this freaks me out.

So you’re making arguments for me? Go please have a debate with yourself. I mentioned taxes as an afterthought contributor for fuck’s sake and you want to pretend I stated it as a primary cause. Really?

Do you make arguments for everyone? Minimum parking laws are a result of allowing street parking and not what I was discussing. Otherwise I would have mentioned it. Parking minimum laws were designed to address the government blunder of allowing regular automobile storage on the public way instead of only for short…

Plus healthcare was like $50-$100 a month 10-15 years ago, now it’s $200-$300 a month.

Yes of course, reading and listening to what certain groups are up to politically does make me the tin-foil hat guy. However, that does not change what they are up to.

Go read about the new urbanists fighting development of anything with parking. No parking for residential structures, no parking for commercial…

It’s probably a combination of both, but I agree. Get what you can afford.

No, not even close. Instead its a matter of people making $12/hr thinking that’s new 3-series money. Even if it’s a 320i.

If people started looking for cars based on a reasonable ratio of their annual income there wouldn’t be a problem.

It is intentional for some to get rid of the private automobile for ordinary people. It’s quite clear from what has been published and the actions being taken. First we start with agendas 21 and 2030 (as written and implmentations), and then move on to what foundation funded new urbanists are up to (don’t read about…

I think this is spot on. Everyone WANTS a luxury fancy car, but at what pt will they start buying the Focus, Corolla, etc as a standard family car. An excursion is a luxury, not the necessity people think it is.

Exactly. I can’t count the number of times someone asked me to help them find the cheapest possible lease on a car that they swear can be bare-bones and do nothing but get them to work, but when I pointed out the old $99/mo smartcar leases, they were like “...wait. Not that.”

Fixed it for you.

Flat wages combined with rising health care costs pushed on to the backs/wallets of employees/consumers, housing prices, marrying later in life(2 incomes > 1), rising childcare costs, less upward mobility, etc.

Luckily the bank doesn’t hold any of my titles. I’ll finally look rich passing all the pleebs in my 2002 4runner!

Flat wages plus higher prices as a result of regulatory costs and monetary policy. The private passenger automobile will be a rich man’s toy again once the cheap credit is no longer able to compensate for both.

Kids these days are so soft. Back in my day, you weren’t done in Oregon until you died of dysentery.