My friend until recently had an early 90s Nissan “Truck” (the literal name of the model). That thing felt like a death trap - superthin doors, no airbags, and body design left over from the 1980s. A head on or significant side impact in that thing would have killed him.

• less than $20k - HAHAHAHAHAHA

Right? The F150 is one of if not the highest selling vehicles in the country. They are building exactly what the customers want.

Don’t get it, either. Costco starts at $15/hr. I worked there during summers in undergrad a decade ago for $11/hr ($16.50 on Sundays!) with zero experience when I got the job.

Your post doesn’t stand at all because that’s not how car pricing works. You can’t just grab the price of a car from a different country and continent, and then run it through a currency converter and proclaim it to be the USA price. That’s not how that shit EVER works out in real life.

No 17-18 year old who saved up $4500 working at a restaurant or whatever should ever buy a heavily modified, high mileage vehicle. There is a not-insignificant chance that it will need some kind of very expensive repair within 1-2 years because you’d have no idea how intelligently the mods were done and how hard it…

The price is fair for the number of red flags here, but it’s also way too many red flags. If I needed a Dart, I’d rather spend the additional $1-2k for a stock Dart that won’t involve me spending many hours reversing the ugly bulging hood, IG decal, blacked out lights, and whatever this person did with the interior…

Gotta maximize the fuel economy ratings!

This is why I utterly hate (or at best, barely tolerate) driving SUVs, pickup trucks, and crossovers. After 10-15 years of driving low-to-the-ground sporty sedans, they feel like piloting a covered wagon. Like if I make a slight move of the steering wheel in my A3 with upgraded sway bars, the front of the car responds…

Yep we now live in an era where a typical all-season tire lasts nearly longer than the duration most people will even keep the vehicle (4-6 years/50-60k miles).

I’m guessing that person meant buying used from a private party, because yes, buying used from a dealer is still going to have a bunch of fees. Even if it’s something like Carmax and the price is listed plain as day up front, you’re still going to be paying dealer costs already added into that price. 

Yep I don’t get why the destination charge for a BMW built in South Carolina is the same destination charge as a BMW that was built in Germany and then brought overseas on a giant boat. 

Especially used car sales - the margin a dealer has to haggle on a used car is probably only a few hundred dollars, but their decades of bullshit has convinced most people that this number is actually thousands. As in, they think the dealer can afford to sell a $15,000 used car for $12,500, and only won’t do it to…

I used to wonder why they did this, then realized it’s because they don’t care about selling the car to you. They don’t feel they need to. It’s the same reason the salesmen and tactics at, say, a Kia dealership are such shadetree bullshit compared to a luxury brand dealer. Unless it’s some configuration that no one in…

I think this is the only way their design language works: on a big ass sedan (errr...”coupe”). The grille is pretty large here, but so is the rest of the car.

We had this idiot, 5 month-fill-in roommate the other year before our lease ended (rando from a local Facebook group) who turned out to be the classic idiot drug abuser kid from every high school. 26 years old, somehow graduated college, but was working a shit restaurant job he only had because his dad’s friend owned…

I think the front looks like a clown shoe BMW with praying mantis eyes. 

Read my mind.

This. 

Yep. No one still watching these guys is watching for cutting edge innovation. It’s comfort food.