That does look like a hatch in the picture, though. Could they be doing something crazy like bringing over a Mondeo Wagon with some hot engine and sport suspension? The one in your picture is a wagon...

Nobody trusts Subaru anymore.

I think we’ve all been burned enough times to never trust Subaru to produce anything even marginally like their concept cars ever again.

Well, I can’t deny that. I mean, we are talking GM here.

You missed that they excluded models that were no longer being sold. That excludes basically everything from GM and the majority of American cars instantly, along with basically all Korean cars. So it was pretty much Japanese vs. German, and we all know that most German cars are leased and/or cycle through owners…

It’s not 1995 anymore. Most of the people that bought these brands are no longer in retirement communities, they’re beyond driving in nursing homes or dead at this point. The only surprising thing is the lack of the Scion xB, but it did tend to be purchased by those well into their retirements, so they’ve probably…

And it was excluded from their list because that name has been retired for a long time, plus you’re the second owner.

GM changes their model names more often than their senior management changes their underwear.

I mean, I like them, but that Toyota Tax is ridiculous. Who is buying these used 4Runners and Tacomas?

They’re cockroaches and do last over 200k, but I think they get wrecked too often to make it on that list. 200k cars have both mechanical longevity (which is true of most modern cars, I’d expect anything that isn’t German to do 200k miles with general maintenance and replacement of wear items (batteries, belts,…

Alternatively: People keep cars they cannot afford to replace.

I don’t know how they did it, but somehow Toyota and Honda converted all the people that simply do general maintenance and are willing to repair their cars. It accounts for a large fraction of the difference in claimed reliability... Toyota and GM produced basically identical vehicles, but the Corollas of that era are…

Seriously. This looks like the parking lots of a retirement community.

Although I agree that they’ve benefited and you have correctly refuted the lies this article has asserted as fact (through, giving the benefit of the doubt, their poor grasp of statistics and mathematics, which is to be expected of someone I assume majored in Journalism), they do have a point. That is, the value of a…

It doesn’t matter if they wipers themselves are icy. You’re keeping them from freezing to the windscreen, which makes snow/ice removal easier. When they’re frozen to the windscreen not only does it make cleaning it off harder, but chipping them out can damage wiper blades.

I am worried about a crash due to the very rapid rise right now, but the reason it is going up is that there is simply nowhere else to put your money that produces any returns. The Fed has dumped trillions into the money supply at zero and near-zero interest which has inflated the price of everything of value and …

I believe that’s roughly the long term average over the last century or so, minus overhead. It has varied, but a working lifetime is around half of that so a long term average is useful.

You lose money by simply holding it in the current financial climate. It’s bizarre, but you can’t do anything about it. My mortgage interest is lower than savings rates I earned before the Great Recession just for stashing it in a savings account. Can you imagine 5+% interest (greater than inflation) with zero risk?…

You also have IRAs, don’t discount them just because the contribution limit is so low. Slow and steady wins the race.

I did the math on this when I got my first SS statement and came to the same conclusion. If my SS money were simply in an IRA (not even Roth), it would be a ridiculous amount of money. I have been working since I was 15 and the amount I’ve paid in is painful to think about. When I ran the numbers, what I’ll get in SS…