Dookiemon.

There’s nothing smart about that. The 747's direct replacement by a more advanced plane happened 20 years ago: the 777. That’s it. The only distinguishing features of the 747 are the four engines (obsolete) and the two-deck cabin (purely nostalgic at this point, which doesn’t fit the commercial aviation business…

But it CAN work like that because the only requirement is that VW will make them genuinely compliant with US EPA regulations. If performance or fuel economy or emissions system lifespan all tank, there would not be much demand for them in the US to support a resale market, but it would make them eligible for export…

No, they’re using trade-in values plus a weighted average of 20%, which is the defined retail replacement value.

Netting $4600 despite being underwater on the loan even at pre-scandal depreciation rates, savings of all future interest payments that would have been due, and the $1000-1500 gift cards are all compensation above your actual economic losses.

No, you don’t have to give the cars back that you bought with the $43,000 VW paid you. It’s essentially a free trade into two brand new cars, just as s/he wrote.

If you bought it for $20K and you’re getting $24K from VW, then at most you’d be taxed on the $4000 “profit” you made on the transaction. If your effective tax rate is 25%, then you’d owe $1000 at tax time...still leaving you with $3000 bonus cash.

You’re getting $13,000 more than your payoff amount if you sell or getting a year of payments canceled if you keep the car...and don’t see how you’re making out on this deal? Are you serious?

Complete and utter nonsense. Bitching about a few tables taken from a court pleading on the very same day it’s released to the public is just flat-out idiotic. No excuse for your asshattery.

But you didn’t lose anything. If you’re 15K miles over, even if you have to pay for 15,000 excess miles, you’re still covered by that $3000 payout at 20 cents/mile. That means you’re 45,000 or 51,000 miles into a 30/36K lease and therefore drive over 22K miles/year. Leasing was a bad plan in that case even with the…

It’s not intended for consumption in its current form. It’s published in a printed agreement, you know, on paper, for the parties to keep on file and the court to approve. Please enlighten us how you plan to implement a database lookup on a paper document.

No. Everyone gets 1042 miles of free depreciation per month starting September 2015. If you drive more than that, then you’re responsible to pay the difference. If you drive less than that, you get a credit. It’s the only fair way to administer the system without further complicating it.

Each car’s default value is…

In most locations, including New York, London, and San Francisco, the city parking authority is the first level of review, and then it goes before an appeal proceeding in traffic court, which is not impaneled as a court of criminal conduct. In New York in particular, it goes before the justice court, which only hears…

160,000 tickets dismissed as a result of following this process. You can’t get a dismissal from playing the “I was only parked there for 5 minutes!!!” Or, “don’t the police have anything better to do!?” card. Neither of those can invalidate the ticket. But failure to follow their own laws can.

No, actually in most states they are neither. They are administrative infractions. It’s extraordinarily uncommon that a standard traffic ticket is charged as a criminal offense.

Seems the videographer did know how screens are shaped, since most people in China would be watching said video on their phones, where it fits just fine in portrait mode. Blame your own reliance on dumb desktop video players for making it postage-stamp sized with black bars for it being hard to watch.

Nonsense. Fuel economy has changed dramatically. If the 2016 only had to develop 220hp and only had to pull 3300 pounds of car and only had to drive the front wheels like it did 27 years ago, the fuel economy would nearly double to around 30/40.

There’s no other way to paint it. It is just a rental fee. Walking away from a lease without paying any early termination penalties is the same thing as a buyback, because you don’t own anything to sell back to VW.

But for the sake of argument, let’s say your numbers are accurate (which they are not, at all), and I paid $25,000 for the car.

So they’re going to offer me the value of the car when it was only TWO months old with a few thousand miles on it...and additional compensation??