Do these averages count collision body work? Or just mechanical work?

Cars and Bids

BaT and CnB are the biggest enablers in car flipping, so it would be against their own best interests to ban the practice. I’d wager to say that those sites make the most on flipped new cars.

Man, I thought that people who can legitimately afford a $500k+ car(no one buys a RR with no options) would be above reselling cars. Resell definition as in buy a car, drive it for a few hundred miles, and sell it when it’s registered after a few weeks has elapsed. So very, very short term ownership.

I liked Subarus back then too. The blue and gold always struck a chord with me. But even as a 2000s Subaru fan, I will not deny Evo supremacy. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

If your kids are children still, it’s probably a good idea get a hard, fixed roof with 4 seats instead. But I’m not in the business of telling people what they should do.

Dammit, you got me.

Ew no. My rule #1 of convertibles is that I don’t buy a convertible if there’s a fixed, hard roof, coupe version of the same car. Rule #2 is that convertibles with backseats are lame. Has to be a 2 seater and designed from the ground up as a convertible for me to consider one.

This is a very Nissan thing to happen.

So Nissan had the base SE-R with the auto(or was it CVT?) 180 HP, and the SE-R Spec V that had a manual only with 200 HP. The car had a ton of torque, but it was top heavy and had a rear twist beam suspension when its competitors had double wishbones or multi-link in the rear. It also looked quite frumpy. I’m not sure…

I wanted one back then too. But I couldn’t afford it, so I’m all the better for it today.

I had a 2007 Sentra SE-R Spec V back in the day. I should have bought a Civic Si or Mazdaspeed 3 instead. This is the only car I regret ever buying. There was nothing class leading about the B16 Sentra SE-R Spec Vs. In fact, they’d constantly lose to the Civic Si, Mazdaspeed 3, and other contemporaries in comparison…

Agreed. The Altima offered more power and features for less money compared to the competition. Back then, Nissan had a relatively good reputation still, so it wasn’t very hard for them to sell these things to people from all walks of life.

For regular-ass people, the L31 Altima. These things were everywhere. Little did we know back then how... notorious these humble Altimas would be 20 years later. Still found in today’s buy here, pay here lots, and finding one today without any body damage is rarer than seeing a LaFerrari on the road. Historic picture:

Even with a hybrid powertrain, I don’t think their cars are going to be any less of a ‘Lambo’ than they currently are. And that’s why I love Lamborghini.

You mean dealer employee burner accounts?

Dealerships be like:

I think 4th of July should just be renamed ‘Independence Day’ permanently and the observed holiday moved to the first Friday of every July. Use the same logic for any other holiday can fall in to a day in the middle of the week. It’s how the federal government does it. ‘Observed’ holidays as it is called. If Christmas…

I can see sticking to OEM tires with supercars and exotics, but not for regular-ass cars. Exotics have weird sizes that aren’t normally found in the aftermarket so if you own an exotic, you have no choice. OEM tires are good for most conditions but don’t specialize in anything. But they also cost a lot more.

I just did a 330 mile round trip to the lake and back the weekend before the 4th and was surprised that it felt just like any other weekend. I guess everyone save their traveling for the actual day for whatever reason. What’s an even bigger surprise was that my GR Corolla completed that round trip in just 1 tank of…