Eh, you all tell us that “buying new is for suckers”[1], “sell no” you say [2]... And if we are to buy new, definitely don’t buy that cheap base model [3]. Instead of buying a cheaper new car, you usually recommend an depreciated, older larger, sometimes luxury car instead[4].

It’s easier to walk on a car if you can’t get the options that you want vs getting too many options. Like the WRX: Subaru doesn’t offer adaptive dampers with the stick. People are really pissed about that.

I’d be surprised if it is offered on anything less than the fully loaded models.

But she also says to buy a “gently used” car that is 2-3 years old. Maybe Orman simply hasn’t looked at the market recently, but 2- to 3-year-old cars, these days, are not “cheap.”

ND, but the mods aren’t the issue.

Unless you’re looking for a house...or paying for electricity, College payments, shoot any other metric there seems to almost be advantages to being poor.

On this day in 1983 — 40 years ago — Honda made history and officially dedicated its Marysville, Ohio, plant

WTF does “Vegas” mean?

Why is Chevy killing a segment-defining brand? Oh, because they are GM and can’t think three quarters ahead.

The whole, “the company lost the plot on the new WRX” is totally trolling us.

They are “manufacturing outrage” for the clicks and “engagement.” Basically, it’s now the job of the jalopnik staff to troll their audience instead of reviewing cars. “I don’t get the hype” is intentionally non-committal and ambiguous. So whatever it is you think that means, they can all claim that they don’t mean it…

The demon is for rich dudes who own a small business and love to collect American cars that are going to be sought after. Most of them will sit in a garage next to a Z06, a classic Charger, a GT500, and something off the wall, like a Beretta Z26 (the car they had in HS). Of course, there’s a nice F150 out front for a…

The question is: What and who are plug-in hybrids for?

I can hear the voice of an old stats professor repeating over and over “correlation is not causation,”

Interesting factoid -- you can tell how old a BMW paint color is by the paint code. They are sequenced, so 431 comes before A90, which is before P7X, and I think they are currently on Wxx codes.

But when the car is clean and well-lit, it’s this really nice deep blue

Not to mention, the pictures are terrible at showing off the colors. Anything except for the bright glossy colors look black/grey even on a Macbook Pro monitor. You have to use the video feature to see what most of the colors actually look like.

Vandorvoort Blue is amazing

The Barney Look. Gotta respect the cajones on that buyer.

“Handle the snow of a mountain town” translates to AWD to me.