I’m currently driving a loaner Q5 (Audi reliability LOLOLOLOL) and there is one specific reason I will never own one, and it’s the cup holder placement. In my A4, the cup holders are in front of the shifter, in the Q5 they’re behind, so if you put the arm rest where you want it, it COMPLETELY covers the cup holder. So…
I always had a sweet spot for S4 Avants (but I don’t think they brought any in B8 chassis). When I lost my A4, I had a choice of S4 and Golf R and ended up with VW because of utility.
I do miss Quattro (article doesn’t mention is it True Torsen we loved or fuel efficient Haldex (or something else).
Did we ever got RS4…
Speaking of cultural mysteries associated with parking lots...
So how many golf carts are road legal (I’m assuming this is), go 60 miles on a charge, and can go 55mph?
It’s possible she’s just as big of piece of shit as he is. Sometimes people do find their soul mate.
They may want to do an audit. They might find a couple of hidden surprises in those impound yards.
They should cancel these. If for no other reason, do it because they are hideous.
A lot of people profited off of Gamestop’s stock when that insanity was happening. Unrepeatable events are not an investment strategy.
Read the room. This article is not geared toward the collector or those who got lucky with limited edition cars during a one off supply chain related economic mess.
The Orman and Ramsey’s of the world are really going towards a specific set of people though. Their rules and thoughts are based on not having people in debt and usually geared toward people with bad credit and/or large and bad debt.
In fairness that is a specialty car with a high demand market. But Orman and Ramsey seem to think a Honda and a Bentley depreciate at the same rate.
Either we need tolls everywhere or some system to offset usage.
How about a $200 surcharge on assault rifles? That should raise billions in Texass.
What if, like me, you drive 1/3 that distance in a year? Is that still reasonable?
The money is gone, and has been gone for decades. There is not a single state, nor the federal government, that collects enough for road maintenance via gas tax. Closest is Hawaii at less than 75%. Natural average is 53%.
I think the cost they came up with is the interesting part, not the concept. If you bought a new light duty truck from the Big 3 with a V8 and did only city miles (lowest I saw was 15mpg for non Raptor/trx) at the US DOT average miles driven per year of 13,476; you would pay $180 in road tax to Texas. The charge for…
Looking for more handouts, eh?
Mileage-based registration fees. Have driver submit mileage when registering car, re-submit mileage next year when renewing, calculate tax based on amount. New cars pay a pre-set minimum for the first year. It would insanely difficult to pull off and very easy to cheat (why yes, I only drove 348 miles last year. Why…
Another good idea poorly executed. A better and more fair option would be to delete the gas tax and make both types pay a per-mile-driven tax based on weight and size. If you want to encourage ev adoption, keep the gas tax but call it a carbon tax and use those proceeds for healthcare.
Hard to come up with an idea for a fair fee. Just having gas tax continue to pave the way to EVs (literally) is kind of a great incentive to have people buy an EV in the first place, but then you’ll eventually get to the point where there isn’t enough tax coming in (maybe in a decade or so from now). At some point it…
