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Should be a wild four years.

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  • The vehicle's price was negotiated on contract in advance before I travelled to make the purchase, to be paid in cash in full, no financing. I was already getting a good deal -- I'm well aware of what the vehicle's real worth was and still paid well below it. No car is "worth" its sticker price, which is why you don't even entertain it as a data point during negotiation. This wasn't my first car purchase, champ.
  • The financing office thought they'd get a slice of interest (and I'm sure the manufacturer gives them incentives to pitch it) by offering to rebate an extra $2k at the point of sale if I was willing to finance $6k of the purchase, with no early payment penalty. As I said, I paid it off eight days after getting home w/the new car, having paid $0.07 in interest. Literal free money. The dealer probably did make a bit of scratch on that... at the lender's/manufacturer's expense, not mine.
  • I don't have a "stupid ass start/stop feature" either. Plug-in hybrids don't do that. At least not this one. It can move at 95 MPH solely on battery power; "on-demand" engine startup happens when the battery runs out or you floor it in [PWR] mode and shutdown happens automatically regardless of vehicle speed based on usage and current requirements.
I fucking love how angry this made everybody. Wasn't even expecting it. Still love it though. Guess it's still true nothing brings out the crabs-in-a-bucket mentality of "everyone must drive a used piece of shit gas guzzler and lol you overpaid" like mentioning a plug-in hybrid amid people bitching about gas prices. :story:.

Suffer, paypigs.
I paid... far less than what you did. Even with repairs and gas, I still haven't hit 27k. Lol lmao.
 
So his recent pivot into a Trump bashing NYT contributor after assuring us for the past decade that his inside intelligence sources were telling him the NYT was at the heart of the globalist Satan worshipping pedophile cabal that runs the world is not a surprise to me at all. I can't say I know exactly who is pulling his strings or to what end, but I can say for certain he never believed anything he said, and it was just a means to an end.
There really is something to people in both media and politics where a lot of rejects behave as though they were scorned lovers when they get fired or are forced to resign.
 
You can hate kikes and hope that Israel is destroyed so they dont have a place to run too and also hate muslim sandniggers who wake up every morning chanting "Death to America" and hope Iran gets fucked. Both are your enemy if you are a white man.
Truer words were never typed. In a sane world, Jews and Muslims would have as much relevance to US politics as those Stone Age apes from North Sentinel Island.
 
Who are the most USPG2 approved candidates in the upcoming Nebraska election? It seems like it's been one of the RINO filled state government recently.
 
Yes yes I know you really bamboozled them and found all the tricks to pay $27,000 for the car. And you even paid no interest!
Gosh I'm so clever. Ain't no dealer never gon' pull one over on me, boy!

And indeed you are clearly such a brilliantly shrewd negotiator you've discovered the best way to get one over on a dealer is to ... go buy a used car from a used car dealer. The mind boggles at the undeniable chadness of conducting business with the literal textbook definition of "con artist" -- the used car salesman. Ah but I'm sure someone as smug as yourself paid cash in a private party sale, having thoroughly reviewed the car yourself with your infinite knowledge of mechanics, engineering and of course automotive expertise, and only with the go-ahead of your bestest-buddy local car mechanic (who are also known as so morally upright and dependable you could have them negotiate peace treaties and end war worldwide overnight). You're so clever ain't no private seller gon' pull one over on you, boy!

The smugness wears thin quickly when you try to compare the stupidity of buying a new car (muh depreciation, muh shitty warranty, muh car-as-a-service, muh telemetry, muh modern manufacturing flaws, etc.) with the stupidity of buying a used car (muh depreciation, muh unknown/unproven maintenance history, muh lying-as-a-service sales team, muh non-existent warranty, muh "parts are rarer now because all the reliable old cars were murdered/literally crushed by Obama's cash-for-clunkers program", etc.).

As far as the feature you mentioned with your vehicles "start feature" I'll simply say this. Surely it is cheaper to use and maintain a regular key start versus more complex features such as a start/stop and the start system you described.
This is my favorite argument from people who hate any car manufactured later than 1970. My favorite counter-argument is the longevity of not only my own modern vehicles (the 2010 I traded in for this car lasted 12 years with zero mechanical failures, no error codes, no unexpected shutdowns or faults, no repairs of any kind, and both its own and third-party diagnostics showed good system health and the battery pack's lifespan still over 50%). It really burns "certain people" up that some manufacturers can actually do "complex systems" correctly and reliably, to produce long-term reliable vehicles.

The wisdom of "oh it's complex ergo it must be trash" is false wisdom. A complex system that is only as complex as it has to be can be made quite reliable. This thing ain't no Tesla -- it's actually a good car :story:.
 
Gosh I'm so clever. Ain't no dealer never gon' pull one over on me, boy!

And indeed you are clearly such a brilliantly shrewd negotiator you've discovered the best way to get one over on a dealer is to ... go buy a used car from a used car dealer. The mind boggles at the undeniable chadness of conducting business with the literal textbook definition of "con artist" -- the used car salesman. Ah but I'm sure someone as smug as yourself paid cash in a private party sale, having thoroughly reviewed the car yourself with your infinite knowledge of mechanics, engineering and of course automotive expertise, and only with the go-ahead of your bestest-buddy local car mechanic (who are also known as so morally upright and dependable you could have them negotiate peace treaties and end war worldwide overnight). You're so clever ain't no private seller gon' pull one over on you, boy!

The smugness wears thin quickly when you try to compare the stupidity of buying a new car (muh depreciation, muh shitty warranty, muh car-as-a-service, muh telemetry, muh modern manufacturing flaws, etc.) with the stupidity of buying a used car (muh depreciation, muh unknown/unproven maintenance history, muh lying-as-a-service sales team, muh non-existent warranty, muh "parts are rarer now because all the reliable old cars were murdered/literally crushed by Obama's cash-for-clunkers program", etc.).

This is my favorite argument from people who hate any car manufactured later than 1970. My favorite counter-argument is the longevity of not only my own modern vehicles (the 2010 I traded in for this car lasted 12 years with zero mechanical failures, no error codes, no unexpected shutdowns or faults, no repairs of any kind, and both its own and third-party diagnostics showed good system health and the battery pack's lifespan still over 50%). It really burns "certain people" up that some manufacturers can actually do "complex systems" correctly and reliably, to produce long-term reliable vehicles.

The wisdom of "oh it's complex ergo it must be trash" is false wisdom. A complex system that is only as complex as it has to be can be made quite reliable. This thing ain't no Tesla -- it's actually a good car :story:.
Did you put used tires on it?
 
I adore how stupid-angry people get about a change that generally has next to no actual impact on their monthly expenses. At $2.50/gal, driving a car that gets 30 mpg 10 miles to/from work every day costs $1.60 per day to commute to/from work. Or about $35 per month to commute to work by car.

When gas "explodes" to $4.50 in price, that same commute is $3 per day, or about $63 per month to commute to work by car, a difference of ... wait for it, $28.

It's one of the least-significant expenses in the average family budget and even wild fluctuations to it have a minimal impact to the bottom line. If a $30 increase to commute price is really enough to throw your finances into flux, you have bigger problems, since literally everything else you spend your money on monthly (besides rent) can fluctuate more, namely electricity, groceries, insurance (if you pay month-to-month and have an accident, even when not at fault), kid's random expenses, etc.

Hurr-durr muh gas prices. "lol fuck off and drive less" is the correct response to such retardation, every fucking time.
What a great rage bait post.
 
Russia is supporting the government and directly fighting islamist insurgents in Mali.
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The US should support Russia in the name of TMD and because it would be funny.
 
I adore how stupid-angry people get about a change that generally has next to no actual impact on their monthly expenses. At $2.50/gal, driving a car that gets 30 mpg 10 miles to/from work every day costs $1.60 per day to commute to/from work. Or about $35 per month to commute to work by car.

When gas "explodes" to $4.50 in price, that same commute is $3 per day, or about $63 per month to commute to work by car, a difference of ... wait for it, $28.

It's one of the least-significant expenses in the average family budget and even wild fluctuations to it have a minimal impact to the bottom line. If a $30 increase to commute price is really enough to throw your finances into flux, you have bigger problems, since literally everything else you spend your money on monthly (besides rent) can fluctuate more, namely electricity, groceries, insurance (if you pay month-to-month and have an accident, even when not at fault), kid's random expenses, etc.

Hurr-durr muh gas prices. "lol fuck off and drive less" is the correct response to such retardation, every fucking time.
He made a statement so trash even his gang clowned on him
 
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