Even way before the pandemic, I remember seeing basic Toyota trucks with 250K+ miles going for thousands more than this wagon. Apples to oranges I know, but there are a lot of engines known for longevity and a utilitarian vehicle is a utilitarian vehicle

This bitterness is dumb as hell. The satisfaction Elon can get from selling all of those EVs is his massive fortune and knowing that he’s successfully driving the EV movement forward. The fact that on a personal level, he’s an abrasive fuck who no one other than his cadre of sycophants would want to hang out with is…

I didn’t say there are more of them than you, I said it’s an enormous chunk of the car buying public, but you keep insisting that your reality is as reality is for everyone

Well now you’re just moving into “factually untrue” territory. Kia, Jeep, Hyundai and several other brands are very popular with the sub-prime lending crowd. Their brand dealerships even offer cash incentives to sub-prime lenders to get them into the showrooms and buying. Your entire argument is built on an economic…

Are you the satisfied Tesla owner staffer from the article? You sound like you want to sit out in the garden with Elon, put your hand on his back and slowly rub it in circles while laughing and telling him he doesn’t need that old coot Biden, he’s got all the friends he needs, maybe even his best friend sitting right…

I’ve never seen his birth certificate, that’s all I’m saying. But his emails....

FWIW, this is what happens in the cyberpunk game Shadowrun. It made for an amazing gameworld

“I hardly think destitute and uneducated people are the ones signing terms for expensive new cars”

What I hear you saying is, “none of these things apply to me, so I don’t understand why they would be a concern.” You’re right, loans are a tool and they’re often misused by vehicle sellers to prey on those less literate, hence the term “predatory lending”

If your only metric for assessing a loan is at the dealership on day #1 and you’re asking yourself, “how many theoretical dollars is this sales sheet showing I will have to pay to pay off this car,” then you’re ignoring the realities a lot of people face when taking out auto loans:

If you think an 84 month loan is a viable economic underpinning for car-buying going forward....then your ideas of the kind of economic realities people face are as skewed as your ideas about BLM and dogwhistling. A protracted loan period isn’t good for anyone other than those selling cars, especially when your car is…

“I do love any story that flies in the face of the American stereotype of Germans as efficient, dutiful, and always following the rules”

It's a Road Warrior joke

Just walk away 

They used the moniker "socialist" to initially appeal to a socialist worker's union to get their votes. They were never actually socialists, it was an election ploy. Man you don't know shit about history

You had my ND at “$100,000 Charger”

The NYT maintains a decent stable of free games, it's a traffic stream for ad revenue. Stop doing your own research 

This was my experience as well. Great, heavy car to have in the middle of German winter, rolling along watching all the Peugeots and Opels flail helplessly and skid to the side of the road, but *always* something wrong with it 

That's up to Cheryl! 

He'll never be the head of a major corporation