I bought a used 2020 Outback a year ago and just hit 60k, dealer quoted $1600 for the service (oil & filter, both air filters, tire rotation, spark plugs, injector cleaning, front $ rear diff fluid change, CVT fluid change, brake flush). I looked at the itemized quote and they were charging nearly $100 for just the…

Part of the issue with cheap cars is that they need to be self-maintained to remain cheap. Many of us have the knowledge sets and skills required to perform mechanical repairs but much fewer have the skills to work on EVs.  If the project requires the expertise of a legit mechanic, there are few who know how to work…

He’s got 84 months to pay that off.

I voted NP for the person who wants a British sporty car.

Yeah. It may look better in person, but in the photos, it looks surprisingly... plain for a Lamborghini.

Preach. Lambos ain't meant to be subtle.

I want ‘needs sunglasses’ range of colours only.

100% it’s a Lambo it needs something bright and dare I say a little garish.

Slightly off-topic but as someone who had a Diablo model and poster on their wall since the early nineties, silver has to be the worst color for this car.

And one of the worst advertisements of all time featuring a bunch of people doing their best crazy Tilda Swinton character impression:

These will be bought by rich suburbanites who think they need that range. But if a contractor buys it, it will be the boss buying it who won’t use it for work, but will pretend they are for the tax credit and expense write-off.

I’m guessing those tariffs will never happen, no matter how much I want him to do it and tank the economy for the next 4 yeasrs. . Even if Trump meant it, there will be enough republican congressmen knocking him over the head and telling him what a terrible idea it is. And he’ll probably just say “ok it wasn’t going…

(Teslas are depreciating faster than Masers)

Costco has a car rental program as well. They cover the insurance, cheaper, and can also upgrade, and includes several different companies. Maybe something to look into.

Same here with Avis.  There was, however, once a 20+ person, hour+ wait at DFW in September 

Sixt has been amazingly good every time I’ve used them, and they have cooler cars.

Trump murdered almost a million Americans through pure negligence (Biden hit the big 7 figures shortly after taking over) so I don’t think anyone cared that steel got expensive. Trump is a cipher onto which our country’s least responsible inhabitants have mapped their delirious visions of a white baptist ethnostate…

Seconded as someone who was in the office working for a commercial electrian in 2018. All of our steel conduit got a 1.5x hike in pricing when the tariffs took effect, in spite of it all coming from american mills. Clients kept paying for it, but as we’ve learned since, the effects trickle down economics are felt much…

Let’s see what happened when they raised the tariffs on Chinese steel a few years ago. Domestic steel also raised its price to within a few cents per ton of Chinese Steel. Not only did the cost of building with structural steel framing skyrocket, so did the price of pretty much every good manufactured with steel.

I had my X5 at the body shop for repairs (I was sideswiped by a semi on the way to a toll booth) and after doing a great job fixing the passenger side rear quarter bodywork, the shop handed me back the key with a dead body. They claimed they didn’t know how to replace the battery, despite having the ability to take a…