I bought a good used car about a year before COVID hit. CarMax offered me half again what I paid for it (and I paid a verified fair amount for it) sight unseen two years and 15k later. It was surreal.

You’re right, but used cars aren’t exactly cheap and plentiful and haven’t been for a couple years now.

I’m a software test engineer. I also used to work for Apple. I have *no* interest in using my phone to unlock my car, particularly if Apple is involved.

An 18 year old Outback goes for that much? Man, I must have stolen my ‘13 Legacy 3.6R with 89k on it when I bought it for $7500 a couple years ago.

That car’s in the zone where everything is about to go wrong. Most of it is perfectly manageable, if not a bit of money and a bit of a pain in your ass in regards to work. It’ll need a fair amount of suspension work, wheel bearings, maybe some other things. Except the engine. EJ255's are famous for burning valves…

You take your star.

VW - Tree is probably my favorite car commercial ever. I’m sad that it was probably lost on most people even at the time due to the slow death of manual transmissions, but I appreciate the sentiment.

“Vat does dis do?”

I think it’s a somewhat half-assed attempt to keep the average price down. That is, if they set the cutoff too high, the manufacturers will tend to only offer higher priced models. Buyers can only buy what’s made available to them and between a desperate and/or uninformed buyer and a dealer that wants to make a sale,…

That seems quite a bit more complicated than just being able to take them out. The Caravan I mentioned had two levers on either side that would undock the seats from the floor and deploy a set of wheels so it can roll along a plastic track on the floor (and along a garage floor!). Ten seconds and it’s unhooked,…

The second row seats in the Sienna don’t come out? Wat.

I’m glad I’m not the only one skeeved out by how the paint looks. I’m not an expert at all, but it looks really weird in places, especially that shot of the back of the car. The deck lid and the bumper just look…off. I figure if the paint presents that badly in tiny pictures, it’s probably really bad in real life.

A couple friends of mine had Rangers from that time period. The 4cyl ones were slow as hell, but they generally always worked. I can’t really hate that.

...but the Spice must flow!

I don’t know which I found when I googled the weight, but I saw that the length was less than that of a ‘23 Subaru Legacy. That’s not exactly a massive car. It’s not small, but I’d not expected it to be bigger than something that’s supposed to be a seven passenger minivan.

0-60 in 10s is pretty slow for a passenger car with 200hp, but then I find out the unladen weight is 5500lbs.

Okay, but they did make a point in the article that there doesn’t seem to be a plug anyplace. Sounds like this isn’t a PHEV.

Could be! I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

By the same token, do you know he didn’t make sure the place he was sending her was a good one?

I quite like my Wavebirds, though I suspect it’s because they exceeded almost all my expectations when I got them. They’re so rugged that they still work today after I bought them almost two decades ago, they aren’t laggy enough where I even notice, they’ve got pretty stupid range (I remember playing Smash from the…