Many items in the grocery store will get back to normal - there is only so much room in the fridge or freezer for perishable food. Foods that make up easy to cook meals (pasta, eggs, hamburgers, hot dogs, frozen meals) will stay in high demand at least until the restaurants fully open back up.   But things will slow…

If you go to the article at Edmunds you can see another table - used car financing information. While the average length of a loan for a new car is now 70.6 months, the average length of a loan for a used car is 67.8 months, and a much higher interest rate.  For cars that have little to no factory warranty left.

I bought old used cars that I could pay cash for until I was financially able to pay cash for new cars.

“Who the fuck is panic buying cars???”

Conversely, the winters in the DC area are so mild that all season tires are good enough for 99% of the people.   And the few times we get hit hard everything shuts down.

Cheap gas is already here. Big SUVs and trucks get better fuel economy than in the past. At this point, bigger garages and bigger parking spaces would encourage buying big SUVs and trucks more than getting cheaper gas........

The big problem is that GM tends to do an 80% effort and then phones in the rest.   And GM’s best customers, the “Buy American!” crowd is aging out.

“Celestiq” and “Lyriq”?    Did they hire some 7 year olds?

“The Explorer and next gen mustang will share a bunch of underpinnings, so this would be easier than before.”

One reason why I bought a VW Alltrack is that the parts bin is there to turn it into a Golf R estate if I want.

I bought 3 new Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable wagons. There is nothing that Ford has that interests me, so I bought a new VW Alltrack 6MT.

And No on the electric parking brake.

The sportwagen with the 1.8L TSI can get GTI engine performance with a stage 1 tune, and the suspension can be easily upgraded to GTI performance.   And the Alltrack can be turned into a near Golf R wagen.

“The way I’d like to see governments treat subsidies for EVs would be to... ditch them all and more heavily tax ICE cars instead.”

Considering that sales for MINI have been weak the last few years you would think that getting a modest priced manual version wouldn’t have been too difficult for MINI USA.

At some point the side mirrors on cars will be replaced by cameras. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cameras end up being mounted more forward to minimize the blind spots.

I used Carfax to find out where the cars I was looking at were previously owned - sometimes snowbelt cars can end up in more southern dealerships, etc.  This included looking at both where it was registered and where it was serviced.

A CUV with a CVT.

“I Can’t Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg”  --- Donald Trump

I did my part - in more ways than one. Bought a new manual Alltrack - my 5th wagon. And my daughter and her husband bought a 30th anniversary Miata - manual of course.