Car Talk 6: Best of times and Worst of Times

[max225]

I’m here for the gangbang

[MrH42]

Fully loaded Prius Crime is the same price as the starting price for a Model 3, $39K

$299 a month lease bruh. Buying is for suckers at the moment. With 7% interest rates and savings accounts paying $5.5%

It's actually $307/month + $5700 down. And that's for 10k/miles a year. Hyundai Ioniq5 & 6 are better deals and better cars.

[J-Ho-Fo-Show69]

Yep, I'd rather have a Prius, but I think a Model 3 is quite a bit cheaper at this point.

Also, I drove a 2014 Prius the other day. Holy shit, biggest POS I've driven in a long time. It feels like a 5K pound boat.

My bro and SIL have a mid-late teens Prius. It's probably the worst car I've been in in a generation. Unbelievably awful. It also hasn't been super reliable either. Bro hates it too, lol.

I get in a lot of Prius Ubers for some reason. Charlotte is infested with them. They’re the worst car I could have ever imagined. A soul sucking brick for soul sucking people. I can always tell when someone I meet drives a Prius. Asking me to pick between a Prius and a new badge Toyota (what I call teslas to Tesla drivers, they hate it!!) is like picking between death and castration.


To add, Tesla drivers aren’t car people, they’re tech and computer people. They could give fuck all about performance and care about tech, status, and that it’s “saving the environment”

If you wanna save the environment, drive used! We don’t need more cars in the landfill.

Or ride a bike like Dan said! If we spent half as much on transit and bikability in Charlotte as we do for city council to have $10k dinners and have dopes running our fucking city, we would have some damn fine mobility. I was riding my bike today in a 25 mph speed limit, doing 27! Passed within inches cause some fat fuck Karen POS feels the need to drive 1/3 mile to the Harris teeter in her fuckin Yukon.

Rant over, pissed off today.

[max225]

$299 a month lease bruh. Buying is for suckers at the moment. With 7% interest rates and savings accounts paying $5.5%

It's actually $307/month + $5700 down. And that's for 10k/miles a year. Hyundai Ioniq5 & 6 are better deals and better cars.

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[golftdibrad1]

If you wanna save the environment, drive used! We don’t need more cars in the landfill.

Or ride a bike like Dan said! If we spent half as much on transit and bikability in Charlotte as we do for city council to have $10k dinners and have dopes running our fucking city, we would have some damn fine mobility. I was riding my bike today in a 25 mph speed limit, doing 27! Passed within inches cause some fat fuck Karen POS feels the need to drive 1/3 mile to the Harris teeter in her fuckin Yukon.

Rant over, pissed off today.

hows this one.

went to do site visit for work at gov facility. installing steam heaters for the workers.....in un-insulated wood buildings built in the 40's where some rooms literally don't have doors. Steam being wasted all over the place, like one 1.5" or 2" line where the PSV has been going off for what looks likes years just pissing away probably 50# an hour or more of 15lb steam.

But these same fucktards want to tell me what kind of light bulbs to use, what kind of stove I can buy, or what kind of car to drive because eNeRgY eFfIcIeNcY (NB: the site has its own NG fired boiler for steam production, most is probably used for process purposes but i digress)

[Desertbreh]

OF COURSE. But no lease deal on a Model 3 is going to move me to action, even though it should by pure green visor car hater economics. Stop talking about cars, stop talking about M3s, M2s, sports cars, fun, pleasure in general. Wear Costco Signature Sweatshirts and drink Costco Signature Vokda with tap water, to wash down your $1.50 hot dogs in your depreciation free last cheap Tacoma while your wife and your son lavishly whisk themselves about in an electric BMW.

I feel attacked
Fun has a place. Boring cars have a place as well. Combo is key imo.

Having a fun car you’re forced to commute with through the hellscape of murderous hooker infested gas station and broken endlessly potholes Baghdad freeways is not my idea of fun.

Balloon tires in a long term ev rental is the way to go imo.

Same goes for the weekends, if I had a model 3 on the weekends in the winery parking lot I would not be happy. Eff that

It's all about value. I was lecturing myself as much as you. If $40K buys lifestyle quality, which would be a car that uses very little gas, is acceptably fun to drive, and gets use by the whole fam bam..then great. Part of my retirement plan will involve a hybrid/pure electric because of my new solar setup. (Last bill, $-71.00) . But I have decided early retirement does not become me and I ain't doing it so I'm going to drive what I want to drive. Besides, $40K is what any decent new car costs at a minimum. I just don't need a new car because I keep my old shit super tight (which I enjoy) and I just don't cover that many miles, a factor in the tightness. I miss by C6GS which was paid for but my women don't. What was I gonna do, drive off by myself on weekend road trips? I am truthfully in a conundrum about what kind of spending brings me joy across the entire spectrum, not just cars.

[wap]

My bro and SIL have a mid-late teens Prius. It's probably the worst car I've been in in a generation. Unbelievably awful. It also hasn't been super reliable either. Bro hates it too, lol.

I get in a lot of Prius Ubers for some reason. Charlotte is infested with them. They’re the worst car I could have ever imagined. A soul sucking brick for soul sucking people. I can always tell when someone I meet drives a Prius. Asking me to pick between a Prius and a new badge Toyota (what I call teslas to Tesla drivers, they hate it!!) is like picking between death and castration.


To add, Tesla drivers aren’t car people, they’re tech and computer people. They could give fuck all about performance and care about tech, status, and that it’s “saving the environment”

If you wanna save the environment, drive used! We don’t need more cars in the landfill.

Or ride a bike like Dan said! If we spent half as much on transit and bikability in Charlotte as we do for city council to have $10k dinners and have dopes running our fucking city, we would have some damn fine mobility. I was riding my bike today in a 25 mph speed limit, doing 27! Passed within inches cause some fat fuck Karen POS feels the need to drive 1/3 mile to the Harris teeter in her fuckin Yukon.

Rant over, pissed off today.

J Ho being all

[max225]

I don’t trust the gov with a single dollar. They have shown us over and over again they are inferior to private enterprise. So clearly public transit is a direct result of that. It will never change.
It will always suck. Doesn’t matter how much you wanna grease your local politician

[max225]

New Camry just dropped …
It’s nice but not 40k nice. Toyota is off the rocker

[golftdibrad1]

I don’t trust the gov with a single dollar. They have shown us over and over again they are inferior to private enterprise. So clearly public transit is a direct result of that. It will never change.
It will always suck. Doesn’t matter how much you wanna grease your local politician

starting to sound like a crazy libertarian. better check yourself before you end up on a list or 30.

[MrH42]

It's actually $307/month + $5700 down. And that's for 10k/miles a year. Hyundai Ioniq5 & 6 are better deals and better cars.

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Turn on the taxes and fees.

[Gberg2119]

I don’t trust the gov with a single dollar. They have shown us over and over again they are inferior to private enterprise. So clearly public transit is a direct result of that. It will never change.
It will always suck. Doesn’t matter how much you wanna grease your local politician

starting to sound like a crazy libertarian. better check yourself before you end up on a list or 30.

[max225]

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Turn on the taxes and fees.

Good catch the monthly is 332 as expected but somehow the down is going up to 5600.

[Gberg2119]

New Camry just dropped …
It’s nice but not 40k nice. Toyota is off the rocker

$40k seems like the minimum for any decent car nowadays.

[Desertbreh]

New Camry just dropped …
It’s nice but not 40k nice. Toyota is off the rocker

You might want to consider some therapy on this Toyota price increase strategy angst.

[max225]

New Camry just dropped …
It’s nice but not 40k nice. Toyota is off the rocker

You might want to consider some therapy on this Toyota price increase strategy angst.

No because you will soon find out how it makes the whole cardhouse crumble.

[Gberg2119]

Still think this is the absolute best buy on the market for $34k.

[max225]

New Camry just dropped …
It’s nice but not 40k nice. Toyota is off the rocker

You might want to consider some therapy on this Toyota price increase strategy angst.

https://www.dublinhyundai.com/new-Dubli ... G3PU585420

[max225]

Still think this is the absolute best buy on the market for $34k.

I think they may have canned them in Cali or I can't find any available... Weird.

[Desertbreh]

You might want to consider some therapy on this Toyota price increase strategy angst.

https://www.dublinhyundai.com/new-Dubli ... G3PU585420

That's a lot of car for 22 grand.

[max225]

https://www.dublinhyundai.com/new-Dubli ... G3PU585420

That's a lot of car for 22 grand.

That’s my point. Fuck a Camry at 40. That’s lunacy

[Gberg2119]

Still think this is the absolute best buy on the market for $34k.

I think they may have canned them in Cali or I can't find any available... Weird.

I see a bunch of new 24's on autotrader. They must be arriving now.

[Desertbreh]

I think they may have canned them in Cali or I can't find any available... Weird.

I see a bunch of new 24's on autotrader. They must be arriving now.

34 Grand for a car that pulls 1g and traps @ 106 and has a 10 year/100K mile warranty and can actually fit family members and stuff is an inflation buster.

[wap]

https://www.dublinhyundai.com/new-Dubli ... G3PU585420

That's a lot of car for 22 grand.

It's really a nice toaster to live with day to day. One is that the fuel capacity shrunk from 18.5 gal in ours to only 14 in the current ones.

[Desertbreh]

That's a lot of car for 22 grand.

It's really a nice toaster to live with day to day. One is that the fuel capacity shrunk from 18.5 gal in ours to only 14 in the current ones.

That's dumb. Gas tanks these days are by and large just too damn small.