3K down isn’t enough to chase the depreciation curve on the car. Yes, a Mustang can be purchased with a discount off MSRP, but the used value is tied to the typical new sales price. In other words, when dealers are giving $4k off a new Mustang, nobody is buying used ones anywhere near that price, even if it’s only a…

A 2 year-old used car shouldn’t have any mechanical problems. We’re talking about 25k miles on a car still under warranty. Everything I said still applies. Save 25-30% if getting a ding bugs you.

One tiny gripe: you can totally scan produce. They’ve had scannable barcodes for more than 10 years. Some cashiers and stores are too dumb to know this, and said dumb cashier still types in the very PLU code printed on the sticker. I’ll allow it for by-weight items, because it’s easier to type in the code while the…

+1 for explaining it to the ignert, although I don’t think they will understand even after the explanation. 😀

That’s some pretty brain-dead advice. If you’re going to f-up a perfectly good new car, just buy a used one.

No, it’s Beemer, as in Bee-Em-DoubleU. They are Bih-Em-DoubleUs. Just because some idiot nicknamed it that way early on doesn’t make it right. The 80s have spoken, and it’s Beemer. Bimmer is dying faster than manual transmissions, LOL.

You get a star for saying it right. :)

This would be the strangest “trace” to watch: one super-fast lap, followed by a couple of reduced-power laps due to overheating prevention, followed by hours of recharge time. 🤣

I can’t believe you guys are falling for that line. If that was the case, he would have said so in the original story. This was done for the money, pure and simple. It doesn’t have to be spite to be a money grab attempt.

It’s because of the publicity that it has to become an issue. As was mentioned in the transcript, only “a handful” of customers pulled these shenanigans, but when the total stripper car became an issue, something needed to be done before every owner got it into his head that he was going to go on a parting frenzy.

The world has so many lawyers because there are so many bad people.

The funniest thing is thinking how much that owner is crapping his pants over having to continue to make payments in a car he cannot drive, cannot return to vw and cannot sell for more than a fraction of its scrap metal value. Plus the long and arduous process of trying to recoup some money on all of those parts, many…

These vehicles don’t necessarily have to be scrapped. In theory, VW could create a fix for them that is acceptable to the EPA. Or, they could choose to replace the engine in the newer, better cars and sell them as used. The point is that they are lying for a vehicle that is meant to be in the ordinary, driveable…

People need to stop adding “gate” to every scandal or big news story. Just. Stop it. It’s been more than 40 years. Two generations have been born since then. It’s played out. Done. Beaten to death.

Replace the wheels with some crappy steel wheels or something.

Dumbest blog ever. It’s not about the $150, or Uber wouldn’t be spending far more than that going to court. It takes far more than $150 to get a permit for an autonomous vehicle in California, in time, money, insurance, etc. Furthermore, the computer didn’t blow the red light, the human driver did. But of course, this…

They got over it. This concept car is 10 years old.

I have found there are two types of credit unions, therefore you should have accounts at two. The first is the credit union that pays good interest rates on your savings. Put your liquid savings (emergency funds) there. The second has low loan rates. Get your auto loans there.

“Paying With Your Own Money Now Might Make It Harder To Get A Loan Later”

I’ve never had a dealer tell me any of those things. Oh, wait, it’s because I’ve never gotten an auto loan from a dealer in 30 years. 😀