Please star this post if you think “M3” should only ever be used for the iconic BMW model, and never be used to refer to the Tesla Model 3.

I assume most people here have not had the pleasure of ripping an 80's car. You’re right about them feeling like a go kart. Unfortunately, they will crush like a go kart with all the SUVs and brodozers on the road today.

I mean on a new car lot, $34k only gets you a mid tier midsize SUV from one of the non-luxury brands. This is nice-ish RAV4 money, not Lexus money.

This is my point precisely: financing should be a choice, not desperate necessity. If you can’t pay cash, you can’t afford the car. If you are able to pay cash, you are perfectly fine choosing financing if the math works out. Makes sense? 

Well, if it doesn’t drop 30% in a month, like just happened. You are good over a 30 year time horizon but maybe not over a 4. Not taking a car loan is a risk free return. I can only get 1.7% tops in an FDIC insured account these days, so 2.x% sounds pretty good. 

Where do you live that your house was less than $34k?

So far 129 people have voted, with about 67% saying “Nice Price”.

I don’t think we can expect a full 3-4 month lockdown. The economy would collapse before then. We’ll likely see an ease of restrictions around early May and then a return to normalcy in waves that will likely last for months afterwards, festivals for example or sports wont return for a while I expect. However, the…

CAFE is dumb, and the new emissions rules were also pretty dumb.

That last paragraph is why i bought a b8.5 S4 with a 6-speed. It is the WD-40 of sedans. Not the best at any one thing, but damn it if it isn’t great at pretty much everything.

They’re not claiming it doesn’t. They’re just cutting payroll during the crisis. Also there are IT costs associated with working from home and likely productivity will go down regardless of how hard they work.

Have you ever worked in the auto industry, or any industry for that matter? This isn’t your neighbor’s basement startup, it’s a massive company without access to manufacturing facilities or pretty much any other development facilities. To maintain 75% productivity is a lofty goal when your entire workforce is…

You know what’s more astonishing than an 80% dive?

Why do you assume he is white? You some kind of bigot or something? 

This.

Yeah I can get $10k back for student loan debt that was paid off in a timely manner while I didn’t buy other things I wanted because I foolishly thought it was more responsible to eliminate debt first before buying nice things? 

Ha! That’ll teach you to pay off your loans! You should have bought a car or a house with that money.

But I don’t have any student loan debt left. Can I have $10,000?

No, I don’t really know the job history or length of employment of each author.

trlgrl(2) specifically addressed it to Jezebel, and I suspect the editors will somehow see it here. And it’s long overdue.