It’s a Granada. The amber turn indicator lenses give it away. A Monarch had full red across the entire lens.

Great idea, and this coming from someone approaching 60.

You are correct. New car dealers mainly sell new cars to be able to get service work via warranty, parts, and trade-ins to resell as used cars (augmented by used cars from auctions, etc.). Finance can also add to dealer profit on new, but that comes with used sales, too, and often at an even higher APR and kickback to…

I have to disagree with your assumption that Aston’s boardroom changing from looking at itself as automotive to luxury is exactly the right call by them.

How fat and ugly do you have to be to have to buy a hummer?

I certainly have sympathy for you, as I also am allergic to shellfish, but you are on the far extreme end of the spectrum. It seems that almost every substance on Earth is out to kill you. As you know this, and seem to be severely incapacitated by your allergies, just acknowledge and move on. You know your triggers.…

The “base” price for Genesis seems to include a lot of things that are optional/additional fee in MB and BMW products, so that cost difference for a similarly equipped version of either will likely be more in the $10-15K range. This is exactly what Lexus did when they came out, and what Genesis has been offering in…

The issue is not the dearth of upcoming generations of dentists, but that those upcoming generations have no desire to be like the previous one. As such, a dentist turning 50 in 2025 will most likely be more interested in anything BUT a Harley. And those middle aged folks buying Harleys rarely buy more than one new…

I feel zero sympathy for Harley Davidson. They chose to rely on selling retro product to a rich but dying demographic, and did as little as possible to sink any profit into new product.

Not to infants. But once Mama goes dry, your dairy requirement goes away.

You do realize that they developed the Neutron bomb specifically for use in France?

Yep, it reminds me of the Studebaker pickup that used a Dodge bed because they didn’t have money to develop a bed of their own. 

Oh, they know. They know damned good and well that trickle down economics is pure bullshit. And they laugh at how those “downstream” believe that it was true.

Neutral: Peak Car?

Porsche wants you to drive their cars and wear them out. If you took them home and set them on fire, Porsche would not care one bit. As long as they end up off the dealer lot, and on their balance sheet as a sale, they could fucking care less what becomes of the car, whether track car or garage queen, or daily driver.…

People use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Amazon, or any internet based business and they are worried about privacy?

While I lean toward the “fake” crowd, it totally is within the realm of possible. And likely.

It’s all very sad, regardless. We are seeing an emotional purchase being turned into a choice of what appliance we prefer to purchase instead. I think many enthusiasts are losing their passion for the new and future product and are becoming passionate about older models only.

The LX/LC program is only a success as it is paid for. To develop a replacement when the chances of that segment ever really getting a return on capital expended is a folly It may be a good seller in that segment, but that segment is dying. And your point on interior room doesn’t stop a company from trying. Look at GM…

It’s both funny and sad that our radically decreasing money spent on the military and diverting said spending to social problems would attack 2 issues that affect us both internally and externally for our benefit.