Perfect example of mistaking rarity for value.  ND

For those of you that don’t remember the final days of the VW wagons, these were getting serious discounts. This clown probably paid this price for it new.

This car is not a collectible, nor is it desirable. It may be a rare combo, but it’s a mass-production car and not worth what the seller is asking. ND.

He knows what he’s got. Good for him. Hope he likes it, but that mileage indicates he hasn’t much.

Absolutely. They could not have more aggressively half-assed that thing.

The fact that it is required to engineer and implement a mechanical “back up” suggests to me that it is absolutely not cheaper or more cost effective to go with electronic door pulls.

“...EMERGENCY RELEASE LATCHES FOR THE MODEL Y’s REAR DOORS ARE HIDDEN BENEATH A MAT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR POCKET. ONCE THAT’S REMOVED, A RED TAB OPENS AN ACCESS HATCH THAT REVEALS AN EMERGENCY RELEASE CABLE...!”

The last words your fast-googling friend will scream in the seconds between the crash and you all burning…

Came to say this ^ . Most of us went through this with our parents and our allowance; “Honey, you can by this one candy bar, or 20 lollipops”. Bad example, but you know what I mean; maximize your spending. 

Trump’s isolationism will eventually kill the U.S. export market. shutting down U.S. automakers’ presence in Mexico will have a bunch of effects, most of them unintended and bad.

Road wear is not linear- double the weight on wheels and the damage goes up more than 2X. The majority of the road damage is done by trucks and buses.

“I think that’s bad development policy, people in rural areas should be working locally or telecommuting rather than driving 3 hours.”

The correct headline should be that it loses $40,000 PER vehicle it sells. “On” every vehicle it sells falsely implies there is a marginal loss of $40k for each additional vehicle it sells. In reality, more vehicles sold reduces the per-vehicle loss.

Please stop publishing headlines suggesting a company “loses” money on every sale. In addition to being a gross oversimplification of how R&D spending and actual manufacturing costs work, it’s just wrong on its face.

For me it's the fact that tech that is standard on a Toyota or Hyundai adds thousands of dollars more to already expensive vehicles when it should be the opposite.

Audi became too expensive for what they are. Every new Audi I’ve looked at in the last two years has felt overpriced for what it is.

When was there ever a time when someone at the literal poverty line could afford a new car? This doesn’t seem like a revelation at all, does it? Don’t they say the rule of thumb is 30% of income on housing and 10-15% on vehicle? So someone making $16k that would be a $133/mo car loan, aka a $7,000 car. Brand new cars…

“Consumers who make below $16,000 per year are now completely priced out of buying a new car,”

Re New Car Prices: I think we are making a lot of apples to oranges comparisons.

So the last time I’ve heard anything about the Elantra N it was about Hyundai denying a warranty fix for a blown engine and blaming the owner for “excessive over-revving”.

No, just no, and stop. This may be a fine pumped up econobox, in the fine tradition of such (Subaru WRX, Mitsu Evo, sundry Euro bombs we never got here). But it’s still VERY, VERY, VERY much an econobox, and not even up to the premium standards of the basic GTI, never mind an M3. You can always put a ton of horsepower…