What about all that "almost broke Jalopnik" though?  I reread this a few times and not seeing it.  Might be my lack of comprehension though.  

That’s saucy ‘round these parts.

Ahem...

Somehow when do my occasional national searches of CL I often wind up in Maine where there seem to be a lot of well maintained old cars. How do they keep them rust free?

Because this is just a marketing render to gin up attention from credulous journalists whose idea of reportage is paraphrasing a press-release. The actual van, should it ever come to fruition, will look only very roughly like this at best. This press release is one step up from a sketch on the back of a cocktail…

I’m guessing they did.

So now they don't make three vehicles instead of not making two?

Plural would be Geneses, plural of Prius would be Prii. As far as I’m aware, the only word ending in -us that doesn’t become -i when plural is Octopus, and that’s only because it’s a Greek word rather than Latin.

When you say that the G70's paint was “fixed at the factory”, I can’t imagine that they went to the trouble and expense to ship cars to the factory for repainting. Car factories build cars, they don’t fix them. I suspect that they were repainted at regular body shops. The reason that I bring this up is the fact that…

A Hyundai product with low quality paint work?

Please change “bath” to “path” in the headline. For awhile, I thought it meant a financial “bath.”

Are they real manuals or just listed as such? I’ve found about 50% of the cars listed as manual on autotrader are not.

Well that’s disappointing. I was hoping to learn that there’s actually only one red Genesis G70, that exists in ‘folded’ non-Euclidean space so it appears to be in multiple places.

Not having your Corvette forever branded with the unspeakable term “2020" is a $2500 option.  NP.

Not really true. The people who were doing fine before are overwhelmingly still doing just fine. The poor are fucked as usual. The shrinking middle-class that survives by being up to their necks in debt is struggling a bit more than usual.

I heard that Hertz was super up to their eyeballs in debt from one of those strip-and-flip private equity firm scenarios. 

I’ve not seen any real drop in used car prices. In fact, it seems as if some prices have gone up.

The used car market is doing fine after recovering from the initial shocks in the spring. 

People with poor credit? Shouldn’t be too big a shift from selling to Hertz.

Depends on what you consider major repair. To me, spending $2k on unusual repairs is excessive. There is no reason water pumps should fail between 60-70k miles, but they often do on BMWs. That’s a $1200 repair out of warranty. Valve cover gasket, oil filter housing gasket, oil pan gasket all fail on BMW’s between…