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Carvana — good riddance … the Wall Street funded used car dealers were buying up all of the used inventory, then reselling at inflated prices. Let them burn in Hell and go into liquidation.

Companies like Carvana and Carmax basically combine all of the scumbaggery of Wall Street and Curbstone Joe’s Used Car Lot in one ugly package.

They get glowing (like the glow of Cerenkov Radiation) reviews on Reddit, from sellers. Pity the poor buyers of the cars mentioned below.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/zo902s/carvana_has_started_liquidation_process_selling/

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“Yeah they gave me way more than my car was worth. Thing had a cracked windshield, dents, engine knocked, high mileage and they priced it like it was brand new.

No clue how they made any money, if they ever did.”

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“I sold a 2019 Mazda6 to them about a year and a half ago. I purchased it for just under 20k and sold it for 23k. The guy who picked it up showed up with the check and handed it to me no questions asked.

I asked if he wanted me to open up the car, pop the hood, or anything. He said no. And he towed it away.

I deposited the check right away and never heard from them again.

Strange experience.”

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And American consumers are the very worst as far as vanity. Spoiled brats.

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Looks pretty, but the rear windows seem like they’re claustrophobic as hell, and not good for visibility. What looks pretty from the outside isn’t always terribly functional.

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NB. The unloved late 90s ugly duckling. Seems to be quite a few of them for $5-7k at least in the East, and there’s something to be said for not having the flip-up lights. Z3s also go for under 10 grand.

Also, what about a motorcycle — as visceral as it gets and a hell of a lot of fun. Basically the “fuck you” to all of those who want everything on the roads to be safe and domesticated.

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Scaredy should get a motorbike — SV650 gets 50 mpg highway or a 90s Miata and plop a turbo in it. Already gets 30 mpg, some people say that the turbo slightly improves fuel economy.

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It sounds like you’re comparing a 2-row SUV with a 3-row minivan or SUV. In both types of vehicle, the 2nd row is easy to access, but the 3rd row isn’t. The difference is that minivan seats are more easily removable or fold flat. The solution is to just use the van as a 2-row vehicle (with more cargo room, better efficiency, and lower cargo floor than an SUV), or only keep rows 1+3, which gives you basically infinite legroom.

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Got to love a law that encourages people to buy guzzling bloat barges 🙁

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A minivan with a VW Microbus style pop top camping conversion would be pretty bad ass (and actually have enough power to go up mountains, unlike an actual Microbus).

https://www.mountainpoptop.com/

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They don’t have to be designed that way, but many are. The problem is that we don’t have pedestrian safety standards. Our safety standards are stricter on how the car protects its own occupants, laxer on how it interacts with other road users.

Does Mazda3 have a decent hybrid system?

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Personally, I like cars that are nice and low, that you sit down in, not step up. Ray Loewy had it right. If I wanted to sit high up, I’d get a jerb driving a UPS truck.

Sadly, it’s becoming hard to even get a real car here in the US, some makers only offer SUVs and CUVs with the general proportions of maggots or grubs. I want something with some style and class (even if it’s old), not another fucking burb box.

I’d make gentle love to a porcupine to be able to get some of the small Chinese and Euro market electric cars here in the US. So. Jealous.

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Nah, if you want to be REALLY safe, get a Peterbilt or UniMog. Suburbans aren’t safe enough.

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I would vote for the Chevy Bolt EUV.

What’s wrong with the regular Bolt hatchback? Why does a commuter need the bloatbarge version?

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Then, environmentally, it sounds like we are making giant pieces of junk for the landfills pretty soon. Big giant obsolete computers with wheels.

An electric car can actually be a lot SIMPLER and less computerized than a gas car; you don’t need as much real-time processing power to keep the engine running within a narrow range of parameters to meet emissions rules. You can do stability and traction control by controlling individual motors — the friction braking system could just be straight old-school ABS.

The problem isn’t that the cars are electric – the problem is that manufacturers are stuffing electric cars full of extra gadgets and geegaws that have ZERO to do with electrification or even safety.

Standard door handles work just fine – you could have an extra sprung plate to make them flush for aerodynamics. Instead, many makers are making the handles electric with a duplicate mechanical mechanism for safety. Just extra weight and more crap to break. Dog-lick engineering … “why does a dog lick their scrote? Because they can.”

You don’t need a screen running everything and three menus just to change the air blower direction — a temperature knob, fan knob, and air direction knob controlling the heat pump would work just fine. But, of course, that doesn’t look fancy-schmancy enough to attract techbro buyers.

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Ioniq 6 if you can actually get one — it’s an electric car that’s not a Tesla and isn’t another damn SUV/CUV. A car that doesn’t pretend to be “tough” and lacks the grub-like design that most CUVs have right now.

I love the quirky Citroen-like design.

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He’s a crook and a thief, but he also stole from the biggest bunch of crooks in the world.

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