Makes complete sense. I had a very similar situation before. I came from a 2014 Wrangler Unlimited where everything kept breaking, and the dealer was starting to try to decline things that should be covered under warranty/extended FCA warranty.

If buying new, the WRX also definitely deserves your consideration.  Definitely at least test drive it.

The issue comes down to the portfolio of a specific manufacturer or when you cross different segments.

I’m still living in the past, when a base model 911 was about $70k and truly a performance bargain.  Not taking away from the newer cars at all, because they’re all fantastic, but in my mind a base 911 is about $70k, so $97k is a bit of a sticker shock.

It helps when you’re traveling to cheaper parts of the world, and the 5-star price is comparable to a Courtyard Marriott in the US. Domestic travel is usually Courtyard Marriott if you’re lucky, occasionally Best Western / some other similar ones.

I travel for business and frequently stay in what I would call classy classy hotels - there is no begging.  If I ask them to “send some waters up” when I check in, they send up a ton of freebies.  It’s a very common practice, and actually pretty cool because some of them have robots that deliver them!

It depends - the real classy ones nickel and dime but then “comp” things if you ask.

A great way to tell between classy-classy and trashy-classy hotels:

We had a similar experience - 2012 RR Sport bought new, traded around 5 years / 75k miles. During the entire ownership it was great - replaced the battery once, and one of the keys stopped working.  My Wrangler required more than that dollar-wise in the first 10k miles.

I’d much rather a replacement car than the FCA solution of “we’ll have someone weld it again”

and the second part of my sentence “and you see an extremely low failure rate in a test. Arguably the jury is still out on whether Tesla removed this too soon, but this is standard practice.” 

Anyone else on the bottom half of the Consumer Reports ranking applies:

1. This was just an example of oversight

Yup! This is another anti-Tesla piece.

I think that is a book, but it also kind of looks like an air filter.

I’m right there with you (for the most part) with my ‘16 WRX at 48k miles.

Exactly.  I was just saying, that would be a con of the Turbo 4 over a 6 or an 8.  When not in boost, it’s weed whacker.  That being said, a turbo 4 can be great (WRX case and point!)

There are pros and cons of both configurations.

I can’t speak to customs, as I was usually en route to Italy and went through customs there.

I was in Normandy on July 4th a few years ago - it is fascinating seeing a part of France with American flags everywhere. There’s a church in Normandy that an American paratrooper got stuck on the steeple of. He was eventually captured, but after the war his unit donated new stained glass to the church. The stained…