You understand that impulse purchases are a LARGE portion of car sales, right? 

First rule of Car Sales: If you can’t get a printed breakdown of what they’re charging you/asking you to pay, you should leave.

I in no way mean to support the continued existence of the dealer model by saying this: You can do that right now. Even to the delivered to your door portion (edit: in most states). However, it will involve a dealership. Not saying anyone does it, and definitely not saying it wouldn’t be a hassle.

Genuinely curious what else the expansion might’ve done to passages and the cylinders themselves. If your compression was low before... 

Neutral: Do they have a right to? Yes. It’s their livelihood, and I’d expect anyone here would do the same were theirs threatened by evolution.

And there’s no real way for them to “buy out” dealerships unless the dealership wants to be bought out.

3rd gear: This is the beginning of the golden parachutists that own auto dealerships, and also the little guys getting eaten up by the big franchises.

Woah woah woah, I’m all for personal responsibility, but choosing a voluntary repo over a trade isn’t about “screwing” the finance company, and it isn’t an immoral activity. It’s submitting your car against the balance of your loan to try to get to a better situation. It doesn’t often work out that way, and generally…

I’m sure that the warranty for any sort of body or body-electrical is gone at that point. The drivetrain warranty should remain unchanged unless they’re modifying any aspect of that as well. 

More than likely, they’d have to do some sort of Coupe version of the 300... but being as the challenger already exists (and there is even a company doing convertible conversions) it’s not exactly capital intensive for the company. They just have to do it without trying to make it sporty, but while also keeping it…

It sort of feels like EVERYONE is ignoring this space. And I don’t mean convertibles in general; they really do seem to have a sales problem.

If we can’t enact logical license exams that weed out bad drivers, why do you think the insurance industry would suddenly come to the rescue? If they push their high-probability clients into AVs, they lose out on money after all.

Okay... So your premise here is a bit off the mark.

Did anyone else watch this and wonder “How the hell did we get here? Wasn’t Dom the son of a racer who was in jail for a while after he nearly beat a guy to death? When did he suddenly become a super soldier?”

You went there. You actually went there. 

I agree that a single federal standard somewhere between Trump and California would be good. But I don’t think that’s what the automakers who didn’t side with Cali are doing here. That doesn’t make them wrong for taking the side they did, they chose pragmatism over progressivism. But there was no right answer for any…

I feel for the event organizers to some degree, but I take serious issue with this nonsense: “You don’t really see the Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and Japanese cars”. Maybe, MAYBE in Houston it’s different, but the streetracing hashtag with Houston surely doesn’t bear that out at all. Especially not with regard…

Don’t make me think nice things about Toyota. I really dislike them, and it’s really confusing.

I’d really rather not, but every time I go to a Northeastern supercar show... they’re there. 

Is it really market dependent though? The company that actually produces the Regal and Cascada in both Europe (as Opel) and the UK (as Vauxhaul) is now part of FCA (or soon will be).