Yup. I’d have purchased a Toyota or Lexus by now if there were any for sale without thousands in add-on shit or straight up markups.

This is what I wonder. I have no doubt that Tesla is impacting their sales, but 6 month waits and take-it-or-leave-it prices on the RAV and Highlander have to hurt as well.

Anyone remember this ad? Seems appropriate these days.

Way too many people are spending this kind of money, and don’t realize that they don’t really have it. They won’t be able to send their kids to school, retire, or afford the inevitable emergencies that come up in life. All at the same time that republicans are advocating to continue to erode social security and…

I have a friend whose RAV4 lease is up. They won’t re-up him on the same terms because of the market - even though he’s leased from them for over 6 years.

Cool, is there a weighted average? Like do things like reliability factor more heavily then say ergonomics? For most things I read the reviews but the final factors are how the vehicle performs on a test drive (which is very subjective) and how reliable I think it will be long term based on previous models and in…

It’s weird that some of these mention reliability and some don’t. If reliability is a factor then I would not pick a Subaru Forester over a RAV4 or a Ram over an F150. That’s just my opinion but long term I don’t see the Forester with a flat-4 and a CVT not having more maintenance costs over a RAV-4 with a 2.5 I4 and…

The RAV4 should be skipped over in favor of.......... the RAV4 hybrid or Rav4 Prime.

What an age we are living in now that Kias are something people recommend to one another.

I bet that so many used Hyundais and Kias are going to flood the used car market in the future that Hyundais and Kias are going to be the next Nissan Altima. Which I guess effectively turns back the hands of time for them as far as their reputation goes. Time is cyclical.

Or maybe they wanted to build a new platform in their home country (where the US and Korea have a free-trade agreement) and there was no indication that credits that have been in place for years would have changed immediately without a phase-out period.

The rules are working (as intended), but the rules were put in place far too soon. It’s the same concept as me punishing my kids for not cleaning their room, 0.05 seconds after I told them to go clean their room.

They are, they started building one of the electric Genesis models here earlier this year, but the shifts demanded by the IRA are way too rapid to comply with in the real world. Sourcing, converting plants, building plants, all things that take years to accomplish, I get wanting to encourage domestic manufacturing,…

Hyundai’s “$7,500 Lease Bonus Cash” is bullshit. I test drove a Kona EV at Vision Hyundai in Rochester, NY and when I came back I talked lease prices with the sales person. I had just read online about the bonus cash so I asked him what the lease would be with subtracting the $7,500. He told me “the $7,500 bonus was…

Was thinking the same thing. When is Wells Fargo the best actor in a situation?! Props to the bank though for doing the right thing. 

“We have to go through our own processes and procedures within the state guidelines.”

1st gear: Mitsu is making a decent quality product again? I’d love to read more about that as it seems like for the longest time they were just one of those avoid at all costs brands with sketchy quality only sold by dealer mega-malls that specialize in selling to folks with no or wounded credit that otherwise…

Real world range and fuel economy

These supposed “finance experts” are taking advantage of a void that’s left because our school systems don’t teach basic household finance to kids, which they absolutely should. Not saying every kid would excel at this or that the schools will universally do a good job teaching it, but anything would be better than…

Coincidentally, cities with Hertz Rental Car locations are expected to have a 20% increase in wrongful arrests for car theft.