My question exactly. You have sub-prime credit and you still manage to own a fleet of vehicles?! Read more

forget the rotary idea-get just about any liquid cooled 2-smoke snowmachine engine and wedge er in. Just for fun, leave the recoil starter in place and when it’s time to leave the CaC event, grab the handle and pull start your car.  Read more

That fright pig 3 wheeler Beetle lowered the bar for all future submissions. “At least it doesn’t have a homemade cow bone steering wheel” is a sad new standard.  Read more

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I assumed you were a bit older than that. Simply because it takes most folks many years to amass such a huge fleet of vehicles. Read more

Not only is it “somebody else’s project”, but it’s a car that is mostly only relevant because of the ability to customize and tinker. Doing the work to make it your own is the whole point.

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still a land barge. It may stop, go and corner better but its a tone of mass to sling around. At half the price it might creep in to WTF money but I would regret it about a month after the purchase because I would have had all the “fun” I could get out of it.  Read more

23 hp and a car made out of compressed cotton. Unsafe at any speed. There are good reasons as to why you don’t see many of them. Read more

I owned a Trabant Combi, summer of 1992 in Budapest Hungary. They do have their charms, but being familiar with how they are built, I strongly suggest that anyone who plans to spend any time in that roof tent be built about like a skinny 10yo and of similar weight. Ruggedly built, they are NOT, and for sure the idea…

Ah, Kinja, the great equalizer. Read more

Three time major market multiline m/c dealership service manger here (NYC, L.A. and SF bay area)
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My good credit got us a 30 year at 2.65 last year, which was all I built it up for really. I’m happy to cruise along at 750ish from now on.
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This is awful. They should have been more transparent. I imagine the process works largely the same as in the car business, and it looks like you had two sales managers that decided to “Shotgun” you. Which is basically, just firing your credit off to whatever banks thier system allows them to click on, and hope they… Read more

It is an asspain, but this is the correct course of action, and pretty much the only one.  Read more

I expect you are right, in actual dollars. But I expect a decrease in price in “inflation adjusted dollars”. Read more

I am fortunate to have an excellent credit score and very little debt, but it makes my blood boil that the mere act of applying for credit lowers one’s score. I deeply resent that we are dependent on the big credit bureaus, but we have no say in their operations, not do they have much regulatory oversight. Read more

They have gone down in the sense that we are getting superior cars for nearly the same inflation-adjusted money. Read more

The real money in auto manufacturing is on the lending side. Most manufactures have financial arms who are more than happy to take up any slack in lending. Those who don’t have financial arms spun them off to keep afloat in the aftermath of the great financial crisis.
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The ability for EVs to scale to where they need to be for mass adoption is a massive gamble right now.  Read more

Prices will start to come down once the Chinese find a way to enter the U.S. market. And when China holds a 40% share of the market, Japan holds 40%, Europe has 10% and U.S. car manufacturers have 10% the U.S. manufacturers will whine and cry about “unfair competition” as if the U.S. consumer had no memory of being… Read more

I love how there’s proper shifter under the hood. They just couldn’t be bothered to put it in the cabin, and instead made a weird linkage to control it from inside.