This is probably for the reason in the article: To keep scavengers out.

That is a special case. A new V60 is coming out soon so they’re trying hard to get rid of the older ones. You can get a ridiculous deal on a brand new 2018 V60...

Although you might get a slightly better deal, the supply is still limited, pushing prices up. I sold my last two cars for what I paid for them or above with extra years of age/use. These weren’t even anything sought after...

Focus ST prices never really dropped low except when the body style changed (the older ones are far more available because more were made). They have also been wrecked in large numbers reducing the supply (every time it snows or rains hard here, the owner group around here fill up with pictures of cars people…

My car is as roomy and likely more practical than an Escape for all but carrying tall items in the back. It’s because they’re the same platform... The Sonata is a mid-size car, so it’s an entire size class bigger. You’d need to compare it to an Edge for an apples:funny-shaped-apples comparison.

It’s subprime lending and the fact it is marketed as an SUV that moves Rogues, but I’m sure they’re also heavily discounted. My last company bought a fleet of them for field service managers and salespeople, so I know they were a hell of a deal compared to the alternatives. They also bought Dodge/RAM trucks for the…

The Rogue is because people have bad credit and don’t earn enough to buy cars. Nissan is one of the major players in subprime lending. The fact no Chrysler car is on the list is only because they quit making the 200 and Dart, which were also sold primarily to subprime buyers.

Seriously. I don’t know why people think they’re getting a deal relative to an imaginary price that nobody pays.

I haven’t seen anywhere near that kind of discount for so few miles in over 10 years. Was it on something people already get 35% off when brand new? I got nearly 16% off MSRP when I bought my car without any actual negotiating. Just emailed around to dealers for a price and took one that was offered.

This is the process I went through to arrive at buying mine new. 60 months at 0% with the same incentives as plopping down the cash makes it even harder to justify used, especially with savings rates well over 1% now and two years of excellent returns in my brokerage account... That discount just keeps growing.

In response to the first paragraph: Borrowing money to buy anything even marginally desirable and fairly recent used was pointless by 2014 or so. It’s why I bought a new car in 2015. The math just keeps getting worse. You can’t even score an amazing deal on rapidly-depreciating luxury cars anymore. It’s just more of…

The car wash probably did them a favor. Their transmissions fail all the time.

How do you make a CUV without a car platform?

Let’s be real, though. FO4 was barely better and runs on a slightly updated version of the engine. Same bugs, same ugly, just a handful of additions.

And that engine sucks so bad. It felt positively archaic in 2008 when they released FO3. When FO4 arrived, I couldn’t believe they were still using what appeared to be a very slightly updated version, complete with bugs it had 7 years earlier. Has the market for RPGs become so bad that nobody will even bother to…

All those damned labyrinths. It was the most unenjoyable maze...

This is, however, more like the original games. In many cases something abandoned was simply abandoned for some reason. In FO3 and FO4, everything must have a purpose or it doesn’t exist. You can’t have a Vault 11 type story because Bethesda would need it to have a purpose, a feeling of completion, or they wouldn’t…

I found Fallout 3 both bleak and kind of pointless. My first handful of playthroughs I didn’t even find numerous settlements because they were simply not necessary and exploring was no fun because you’d get wiped out by something if you didn’t follow the exact path they wanted for you. New Vegas only really did this…

It’s not a car sharing service. Think all-inclusive lease, similar to the way many people never buy an iPhone from Apple, they simply clear a credit check, pay a monthly fee, and get an iPhone plus insurance which they can trade in for another iPhone after some number of months.

First, this would not apply because you’re keeping the car too long.