I think the rationale for including warranty costs was to forecast long-term ownership costs without having to wait ten years for the data. Things don’t stop breaking just because the warranty is up.

There’s a rumor that the Crosstrek is getting a turbo, but it’s going to be a 1.4 putting out the same power as the 2.0 only laggy. While the new 2.5 models are actually driveable, a WRX motor would be a riot.

One of the last times I traveled, I took a taxi to my hotel from the airport and an Uber back. The Uber cost more.

Just because your pickup truck cost you as much as a BMW...

I probably saw at least ten Camrys (with and without the dent) this morning, but I didn’t really perceive any of them. So, I guess that counts.

You’re supposed to use a styrofoam cooler, right?

It’s almost like Flood and Dresher were right...

It’s a wagon. Own it.

With a price that low, it must have been stolen.

You have to remember that in “the good old days” manufacturers had to make cheap (which weren’t really that cheap when you adjust for inflation) cars, because auto loans were thirty six months running well over 10% interest. The real monthly payment on a loaded SUV now is less than it was on a base model sedan in the…

Try it with old computer hardware.

Nissan doesn’t have a four liter. Maybe there’s a way to bore out the VR38 from the GTR, but if there was it wouldn’t be going into a lower tier car.

They’re probably ditching the “400", because there’s no way the new car is getting a four liter.

This is what happens when you design your pricing model with sleek modern houses in mind, but all of your customers live in heinous McMansions with seventeen different ridge lines on the roof.

Keep in mind that the used car market is super tight right now as well. I pulled the trigger on a new car the other day, and while I paid full sticker the trade-in was a good 20% over blue book. It’s a bad time to be starting from zero, but if you’re replacing a vehicle the finances balance out.

There are two big problems with the way that this is being reported.

I think he’s just going to lap them starting with some really coarse grit compound.

I used to live in a city where the standard mode of cop driving was to cruise along at 25 and roll the lights, but not the siren, at every stop sign. They never seemed like they were in a hurry to get anywhere, they just didn’t feel like stopping.

With very few exceptions (like the Jeep Cherokee), most of the SUVs of the 90s were still based on body-on-frame pickup trucks. The Eagle was based directly on a unibody car platform, which is exactly what modern crossovers are.

I hate to say it, but if the AMC Eagle had never existed we might not be living in a world of blobby crossovers.