I’ve done it a few times on a B5 S4 and A4. The first time, it took me about 1.5-2 hours to get everything off, and that was just because I was double checking every single thing I did and being very meticulous. Since then, it’s taken 30 minutes or less.

Fuel economy would drop pretty significantly at those speeds. Although if cars were following closely, the effect wouldn’t be so drastic for the cars drafting the lead car.

What about museums charging people for entry to view things that were stolen from someone’s tomb without the owner’s permission? Seems pretty comparable.

Um. What? have you even read half of the comments here? We’re talking about things that can’t be bought from the creator anymore. We would totally buy it if it were available (sure, maybe not everyone, but most of us), but it isn’t.

Guess we’d better return most of the relics you find in museums around the world to their place of origin, as most of them could easily be considered stolen. Doesn’t matter if it’s for art/culture preservation, etc, if it was taken from a people group or their land without permission.

Then Nintendo is also guilty of theft, as there is evidence that they used roms downloaded from rom sites to develop some of their retro games now available on Switch. And like you said, owning it doesn’t make it legal.

Or proving they have money to blow, so why not get something other people can’t afford? If everyone bought cars the way you are suggesting, there would not be nearly the variety of fun/cool cars on the road because manufacturers wouldn’t make something that doesn’t sell. 

Hold on, so say you buy one new for $110K (I’ll assume you don’t add any options, so base price as quoted in article). In a few years you trade it in and get maybe $40-50K for it, since the dealer has to add some markup. You’ve just paid $60-70K to have that car for a few years.

$2100 is a bit less than my mortgage payment alone, and that’s only for a 6500sqft lot and 1100sqft 2 bedroom house without garage.

Although the NC weighs 300-400lbs more than the NA depending on which website you read.

Similar to a human who had never driven there before, it would probably have to do it a few times before noticing this change in the rules. Although maybe a self-driving car would not pick up on that without having it programmed in for the specific spot, who knows.

Also for the record (at least on the West coast), I believe one of the bigger reasons for the fuel price spike, aside from the usual Spring/Fall refinery maintenance projects, was 1) the destruction of corn crops by that big storm a few weeks ago, which is impacting ethanol production, and 2) some refinery accidents…

The only thing I can think of when I hear “Ford Taurus” is the butt-ugly round model. It has forever tainted all other Tauruses (Tauri?) beyond redemption for me.

Well, I’m no Mustang lover, but in fairness to them, the only 4 cylinder Mustang from the last few decades has been the ecoboost, so you either had a turbo 4 or a V6. Either way, about 300 horsepower. Couldn’t have been that slow. Unless it had a boost leak or something and the rental company hadn’t noticed/fixed it.

I rock a B5 S4, have a pretty average income, and am very not bankrupt.

You sound like you’re talking about an Allroad and not an RS4. Unless your friend added air suspension, in which case he can’t very well complain about a mod failure.

Low income buyers will likely be buying used electric cars, which isn’t terribly different from today since they are already buying used ICE cars. I’m not poor by any means, but my first electric car will probably be used if prices stay roughly where they are.

I mean, to some degree, do brands matter now when everyone sells a 2.0L turbo?

That would just be a 0-1 ratio, right? No one’s head is bigger than his.

In my area, diesel is has stayed within $0.10 of $3.10 for like a year or so, but in the last few months, gas has gone from $2.70 up to $3.40 and is still climbing. There’s something to be said for consistency.