Counterpoint: You can basically get 2 Nissan Leafs (Leaves? I’m assuming they’re like the hockey team in pluralization) of about the same vintage for this money, often with significantly fewer miles, and neither one is going to fool you into thinking it’s a luxury vehicle.

What really gets me is that I haven’t seen a center screen mounted like that where you can adjust the angle. The whole thing just gives you the effect of having bought an aftermarket mount for your tablet - and then you realize that in that case, you could tilt it so you could see it well, regardless of driver…

I think there’s already a built-in solution?

Oh, they’d sell.  Maybe not in huge numbers, but they’d sell. 

And they’re using the same emulators! Sony, Nintendo, etc. own the IP for the original hardware and could have made the experience more true-to-life than anything an open source emulator can do, but, in effect, said “eh, that’d take work, and what we can get for free on the Internet is good enough for us.”

That naming convention was really bizarre. I wondered if their marketing people didn’t write the names of fruit when making grocery lists, but the PLU #’s instead.

yeah, it sounds like the warranty you got was a really good deal - though I do wonder if the CPO “premium” on BMW was higher then (which would make sense, and wouldn’t mean that it was a bad deal).

A second after reading your comment, I’d once again forgotten about Lincoln, even though they still make them. 

Really? That’s not my understanding of what their CPO deal is now (but I could be wrong).

You mean the “chicken tax,” of 25% on imported trucks implemented by LBJ because he didn’t like Europe raising the rates on imported poultry? Yeah, I know the history. Do you?

Nowhere is it more obvious just how fragile America’s sense of self-confidence is than our tax on imported pickups.

That’s what Nissan’s is, too, which kind of surprised me for some reason.  They do have a deductible but it’s only $50, so is very minimal.

The problem is that CPO programs vary wildly in what they’re good for. A year’s additional warranty (what BMW offers) is actually worth a fair chunk of change given what repairs/maintenance items cost for one of their vehicles out of warranty, so is actually “worth” a fair amount.

I was heading home on a flight out of Boston once, on a plane with live TV at each seat. Older guy in the seat next with an accent clearly designed to say chowdah and pissah and whatever else asked for my help in getting his TV to work: “I want to watch the game,” he said. I look at a schedule and say “well, the Red…

For people who are skeptical of finance (or the parts of it they don’t understand), you’re making a really important point.

You know it’s a bad day when your luxury marque is trashier in every way imaginable from your mainstream one.

I think they put out a Survey monkey asked which dumb aesthetic features people wanted, and didn’t realize there was an “all of the above” option that they forgot to take off.  They tried having an intern remove those responses, but not before an exec saw it, and said something like “OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE SPOKEN.”

Giving kids agency can achieve wonders for “misbehaving.”

DAMNIT! I had plans to be “Florida Man” for Halloween, with a Flash-like crest, but Florida-shaped, and props of all the things that got “Florida Man” in the news over the past year, but now this guy’s firmly put that idea in the “too soon” category.

Exactly. My mom wanted to get a new car I took her to CarMax to get an offer; what they offered for her old Accord was very close to KBB value and served as useful leverage with the dealer when negotiating trade-in.