I don’t know of too many carriers that force drivers to lease a tractor. Some companies have exclusively O/O’s, some have exclusively company drivers. Most have a blend of the two. O/O’s have much more control over the loads they take, and often get paid by revenue share vs. $.XX/mile. The downside to being an O/O is…

Gosh, I’ve seriously owned so many vehicles in the last three years that I had to think about this one! The answer is of course the car that I literally forgot I owned: 2011 Honda Odyssey Touring.

Have you perhaps considered that the seller’s account of events is completely true, and he would just rather have the other car that he finally has the opportunity to own?

Wait until you find out about how the Fed islaundering that legal/illegal/legal/illegal drug money for the MJ industry.

Merced-Benz does not sell a GLE 250 in the United States, and never has. I don’t know what they sell in Mexico, it is entirely possible that you’ve seen a Mexican market GLE in California. Mercedes-Benz sold the ML 250, which was a diesel, in the U.S. several years ago. Might you be thinking of the GLA 250?

IDK where you live, but in the US of A the GLE350 is the base vehicle and it comes with a 2.0 turbo 4. It sounds like a coffee can full of rocks at idle and is no match for the mass of the GLE. 

RE: Lincoln
The Navigator is available with a blue leather interior and that is fantastic. I don’t have a hundred grand to throw at a vehicle but I’ll pick one up for $50k in a few years.

Great question. The options that really reduce your exposure are: lease, buy something cheaper, or gap coverage. The rest is Sunk cost vs. being on the hook for the balance of a loan once the vehicle is totaled. If you pay $70k cash, vehicle gets totaled and insurance pays you $54k, you’re still out the $16k of…

I agree with you. My comments were not in defense of Tesla’s price increases or decreases, though I can’t imagine anybody needing to defend price decreases. It’s simply the explanation of why this is happening. Everybody who bought a vehicle in the last 29 months should have known that they were buying at or about at…

Au contraire. Look at the sticker prices and average transaction prices of pickups and SUV’s over the last three years. Ford and GM both did some mid-year price adjustments on top of the prevalent ADM’s. Those prices will come down, they’ll just do it wth rebates and shit.

People were paying more for vehicles for the last two years. Used car prices were through the roof. Dealers were getting away with markups for nearly all new cars. Imagine that exact same scenario that you mentioned, except it’s someone who paid $7500 over sticker for a Bronco Sport. Tesla increased prices on their…

Yea and I remember when the Cybertruck was like six months from production and when we were just a year away from 1,000,000 self driving taxis. This is not either of those.
Dealers were charging ADM for the last two years. Tesla started charging more for their vehicles. Now the market is in decline and Tesla is…

This story is more than nothing but it is not the bombshell that many believe it to be. Tesla is reducing the price of its vehicles, a manufacturer incentive. Jalopnik commenters love to wax poetic about a lovely future devoid of dealers and price negotiations. That has always been Tesla’s model and I have always…

Responding to your Lexus/Toyota examples: No there are huge differences between the models you pointed out.

Haha right? You know what doesn’t have 315's out back but instead has 285's? The 473hp, rear-wheel-drive BMW M3.

The Mercedes-Benz GLE350. The GLE350 which is a pretty big vehicle available with a 3rd row of seats, is powered by a 2.0l 4 cylinder churning out 255hp. The interior is vinyl. Half of the owners polish their turd with the “AMG Line” exterior. They’re clad in ugly black plastic and have as many fake air intakes and…

If the poorly designed and poorly executed widebody kit could be reversed as quickly as it was pop-rivetted on... It’d be a buy for about $15k less. 

Yep, I read all of the stories when they came out. We haven’t driven the new RX but my guess is that the powertrains will disqualify it. That 2.4 has never had good enough NVH to belong in a luxury vehicle.
As of right now the plan is to get Mrs. Cruiser a GX or an X5.

I was generally right there with you until you said the Blazer EV looks better than the Model S. C’mon man the Blazer EV fell out of the ugly tree and hit 75% of the branches on the way down. It’s only slightly better than the Toyota BZ4x

Yes. And your car will massage your ass right up to the point of impact!