I have a relative that also works two jobs and lives pay check to pay check. He recently bought “The car that proves you made it #hustlelife #dreamcar” a new Audi Q7...that he doesn’t have covered parking at his apartment complex.

So this is actual local to me. The guy makes It sound like he was given a clean carfax. In his Interview he said something along the lines of “I didn’t know that I car could have a clean carfax and still have been In an accident”

Never EVER go to a dealership star-struck. Also, dream cars are really just not all that great if you have to work 2 jobs to save up for a rapidly depreciating commodity that’s being sold way above its value. It will break and stop feeling new, and you will not like it.  If they think I’m going to buy something and…

How does one “take a trusted mechanic” when buying a car? I AM my trusted mechanic, so it’s easy, but how does one take an external trusted mechanic I mean. You could pay them for their time. I’ve never seen a dealer that would let me take the car to a shop and have it looked over. But most of the places I go are…

It doesn’t matter if they didn’t knowingly sell a non-compliant car. By CA law (and dealer laws in many other states), dealers are required to sell customers cars that can be legally driven off the lot. It doesn’t matter if a dealer didn’t know when they first bought the car, they had an obligation to ensure it was…

While the dealer is definitely scummy, Munoz is not without fault here, either. Munoz should have done more to check and make sure that everything with that car was fine

Proton Pump Inhibitors are fascinating.

As someone who spent lots of time in front of big speakers at alternative and hiphop concerts in the nineties, all I can say is:

I spent a lot of the ‘80s blasting Van Halen

Had to navigate trying to invoke lemon law on a CPO VW with one-off electrical gremlins (engineers from germany ended coming out to TN and had the car behind partitions). You’re right that the cat issue is absolutely a slam dunk, the rest depends on if the dealer actually “misrepresented” the car or carefully omitted…

It’s pretty ridiculous to blame Munoz in this situation...

Hopefully yes. But I’m not that smart, and I spent a lot of the ‘80s blasting Van Halen. So it could go either way on noticing for me.

Certainly checking the CarFax is a good idea, as is a third-party inspection if you can get one. But man, it probably wouldn’t occur to me to check to make sure the catalytic converters were still there. I mean, I will check from now on after this, I guess.

The consumer is not at fault. 

While I think other submissions (PT, Prius) are more iconic, I think one flew a little under the radar: The Lexus RX 350

Like actually defined it? Mitsubishi Eclipse.

The Jaguar S-Type and X350 XJ were also retro cars, of a sort.

Hard to pin down a single car, but what stands out to me is the large number of “retro-styled” cars that came out in that era. Off the top of my head we had:

For me it was the Honda S2000, if you look at the essence of the 2000s as what is was rather than what was to follow this is a good answer. Mazda came out with the Miata a decade earlier, and it sold and sold. Everybody had to come out with their own small, relatively modestly priced sports car and we suddenly had a…

For me, the defining car of the aughts will forever be immortalized on the box art of what is arguably the best Need For Speed game of all time: the E46 BMW M3 on the cover of the original NFS: MW. It was, and still is, one of the sexiest cars of that decade, and everyone wanted a piece: your dentist (because money),…