The problem isn’t the “low volume luxury EV” part of the equation.

I live in Texas. Graduated high school in rural West Texas. Went to elementary school in Houston and did sixth grade in El Paso.

Seven grand lol.

“I can’t imagine how you could not determine that a vehicle didn’t fit you on an extended test drive.”

They do teach it, people just do not pay attention.

Yeah nah.

See, this is why we can’t have nice things.

If manufacturers actually had the ability to brainwash people into wanting their cars, no manufacturer would ever go bankrupt.

Lol, that ship sailed long ago.

Not always.

I mean, if you just need it for “image” then just rent it on the few occasions you need the image.

That’s what all the other lenders did.

Thing is, she agreed to a loan of $403 a month for 72 months. That works out to her agreeing to pay back $29,016. That’s what her loan was worth. Not the $17,000 price of the car.

To be fair, the actual ProPublica article is better at articulating the real problem.

To be fair, the auction was in 2021. Used car prices were ridiculous then due to the pandemic shortages. Can't really expect them to have predicted that ahead of time.

While I do empathize with her plight, I think we also need to acknowledge that she was not, in fact, forced to buy a $15,000 car. Especially in 2017.

God American car designers of that era has such incredible bad taste.

Honestly, if they’re gonna make a crossover anyway, they shouldn’t cocktease us and instead just make the concepts really nice crossovers.

I mean, if fucking HP had hitters this good, there’d be a lot bigger targets to go over.

Sorry, just happens that dictators tend to have both the money to buy nice things, and the lack of people holding them back from making ostentatious purchases.