Wealth is synonymous with luck, more than anything else.

Stellantis obviously prefers the pronouns she/it.

I’m actually surprised it’s that’s low. It may not be complex, but there’s still a bit a work and more materials to order. The thing’s as tall as a G-wagon and what, longer than an S-class?

That is not how buy backs work. It’s a legal process involving paperwork. The buyer has to give the seller/manufacturer multiple opportunities to repair issues before lemon law is triggered. Service records must be supplied.

Nationalize Amazon. Make it part of the USPS. Get rid of all these corpo-fascist monitoring systems. 

As my 1984 Audi 4000q was a worse buy and yet if you owned one you would know that it was the most reliable & durable AWD car that you could buy in the US

I enjoyed your post very much. But it’s anecdotes. I look at data through work and it shows much lower fleet wide major component failure rates over time with Toyota and Lexus. Cars don’t get to you until something breaks. Some companies do a far better job than others of keeping their cars out of your shop to…

It is so cool that we’ve got the linguist pedants in the comments section to quibble with the title / focus of this story.

Found the dealer in question’s burner account! Seriously, your a dick if you agree with this. I sold cars for 23 years at a Ford store. I talked people out of buying a vehicle when the car they wanted (Expedition for example) was over $900 a month when their current few year old Expy was doing just fine.

If I’m being cynical (and I usually am) the incentive is the opposite of teaching the recruits how to be financially literate. If they all finished their first service term with $60k in the bank and a ton of options for their path in life, there would be a lot fewer resigning for another term.

I think people are good at forgetting that we tend not to have to spend our every waking hour going “am I being played” precisely because we have decent laws on the books that protect us from ourselves. For instance, I don’t have to look up and research every goddamned ingredient in every food I buy, or check that the…

Bizarre take. Do you work at a dealer or something? Presumably slinging Altimas to single moms at a 29% APR with the intention to repossess them later.

Make it illegal for dealerships to do much of the sh*t they do.

No dislike here. The system is absolutely set up to allow people to take advantage of financial illiterates. Car salespeople specifically are trained to distract from the total price and only talk about payments, making damn sure not to mention that those payments will continue for the better part of a decade.

I’ve spent a lot of time learning about personal finance and I’m naturally very frugal. That said, I’m less inclined than I used to be about financial-shaming people. The deck is usually stacked, there’s a power imbalance, and a car purchase is usually not a discretionary luxury purchase for most people. This comment…

Call me crazy, but a single person should not have enough money to purchase that many Veyrons

Wait, what’s that about selling at a loss? How important, exactly, is that?

OR, he’s proving that CEOs are increasingly pointless figureheads that most companies would do better without.

Don’t know who Ludwig is, huh?