By “unique” driving experience, you mean poor. We had 2 Type II’s for 18 or so years growing up, a 1964 bare bones bus, and a 1973 Westfalia. The 1973 sucked a lot less, but it still sucked. It’s what I learned to drive on.

I’m a poor Millennial dad with a non-automotive-enthusiast wife. So, most cars.

There are HEB stores in Nuevo Leon now too.

No one outside of Texas knows what HEB is, FYI.  

Why is this article so bitter?

Yeah the Rich Rebuild channel is always 2 minutes of contents stuff into a 30 minute video because monetization or something.

Yes, but you as consumers allow them to do it.  That would never fly in Australia - all they would get would be customers laughing as they walked out the door.  I understand our markets are different, but why don’t people push back on it?

Financial literacy/knowledge is pathetically low.

What's he got to do with it?

To be honest, right now, I would simply buy a beater with a heater to get me around till the market simmered down.  Just because you have to have NOW doesn’t mean you have to get anally intruded upon NOW. 

Automotive prices won't crash the way lumber is of late, but a return to normal and potentially even a subsequent dip is inevitable. 2023 could be a good year for car buying. 

I saw one of these in person a few weeks ago. They are surprisingly attractive looking cars.

Tommy Lee and Heather Locklear set the bar for this well before he started dating Pamela.

Yeah, the usual standard of writing here.

I find it funny how much people are afraid of owning used German luxury cars. I guess I should be happy because its that very fear that makes their depreciation curve so lovely for me. I’ve been buying beemers and benzes at the 5 year mark for a long time and having a fabulous experience. I get that my experience is…

The VIN starts: WDB124, so... Its a W124. 

Thank you. I’m getting sick of all these articles (in fairness, not just on this site) which act like the uber rich are sitting on giant piles of cash. This article and all of the tax-dodger ones a few weeks ago are like nails on a chalkboard to me.

It’s true, he was called “the richest man in the world” by some measures but his assets aren’t liquid. It’s mostly speculative crypto and his own crazy stock valuation.

Bradley, I don’t agree with this guy’s money and how he spends it, but it’s not fucking weird. It’s just memories, and we all saw this unfold on TV. We all need an outlet for frustration - be it a mural, automotive journalism or having discourse on kinja.

Ford smirking in the corner: