If it's riding on the Elantra platform, it'll have considerably more rear-seat room than the Rio. Although yes, the Rio is quite the car for the money. The real shame is that it isn't available with a stick and ANY options.
Perhaps - and apparently the EPA does too. Dunno what year you've got, but if you can average DOUBLE the epa average, that's worth singing about. [fueleconomy.gov]
Shocked they didn't spec it with the Recaros.
26,000psi. That is all.
40 mpg while falling out of a building perhaps.
In most states you have to pay the tax on the sales price (or market value, if higher) when you register the car. Certainly the case in PA and NY.
It can only get a salvage title if the insurance company totals it. If that's the case, he wins and get a check for $300k, and the insurance company then owns the car. They'll send it to auction, and it will go to the new owner with a salvage title. This dealer will then fix it and sell it, still with the salvage title, unless they pushed it around a bit (say, through Florida) to get ride of the salvage branding.
Ever buy a used car? You pay tax on it. Even though the original owner already did. If you sell it ten minutes later, the new guy pays tax on it again. And so on. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hell yes - if any of us were in that situation we'd "hope it is totaled"... It being totaled is the best possible outcome for an owner - even if the accident was 100% accidental. So the fact that he "hopes" it is totalled, in no way implies he did it on purpose.
And if you're out to total a car on purpose, there are far more effective ways to do it than sliding into a field.
The real curiosity here is why a Murchie? Why not a Gallardo? It would serve 100% of the marketing appeal of such a contest at half the cost.
Gotta think if he was going to trash it on purpose he'd at least enjoy it for a few days or weeks. 6 hours hardly seems like enough time to get tired of it.
My favorite part? The original Scion xB is slightly MORE aerodynamic than a Countach. Boo-yah. Them looks is deceiving, no?
"I guess most brands have their fair share of douche owners."
Some just have more than others. In this case the Audi + New Jersey combo is playing out exactly as we might have guessed.
Dear Jalopnik: This needs to be a poll - just like NPOCP.
Let the Jalops vote on who the bigger asshole is: Jersey guy or Dealership
Agree. I'm surprised they countered at all, though countering with $19.5k sounds about right. Shows that they're willing to sell the car, but not give it away.
Amazed that the NJ guy is such an asshat. I mean that S4 would look great parked diagonally across handicapped parking spots.
Ditto. Clearly an error. Jersey dude is an asshole for offering 12,5k on a $20k car anyway. Clearly the identical counter offer was a mistake, and they did their due diligence with an immediate phone call.
Based on the police car that is (maybe) chasing that truck down, I wonder how many other near-misses he had in the past few miles. See 0:46
Our military can't make a profit selling them because they don't actually manufacturer them. Private companies do. The military foots the cost for R&D, and then private companies enjoy the profits. (And occasionally, do sell them to hostile nations... Generally through intermediaries...)
Nope - Netflix is currently showing almost everything with an extra 2 hours added to it. Apparently it's some glitch with the iphone / ipad app.
#tips
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I understand the "American's won't buy hatchbacks" rationale, but I don't believe it. I submit, as evidence, the Ford Focus, The Mazda3, the Kia Rio, the Nissan Versa, the Chevy Sonic, the Volkswagen Jetta, and others.
If American't won't buy hatchbacks, why are automakers charging a price premium for them? Correlation does not imply causation. Americans buy more cars with trunks because they're cheaper, and then those sales numbers make automakers think Americans don't want hatchbacks. If 'mericans were genuinely unwilling to buy hatchbacks, they'd be priced less than their trunked brethren.
If American't won't buy hatchbacks, why are automakers charging a price premium for them? Correlation does not imply causation. Americans buy more cars with trunks because they're cheaper, and then those sales numbers make automakers think Americans don't want hatchbacks. If 'mericans were genuinely unwilling to buy hatchbacks, they'd be priced less than their trunked brethren.
