Cad
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Burren
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Punko
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I do that, but I picked up the car at 15.00 and got a fine at 17.03 on the same day. We have an insane amount of cameras which do trajectory controls besides their regular speed checks. Hard to avoid.
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Cad
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Your opinion is extremely important to me, thank you for providing it.
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Burren
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Shame. In the states a speed camera is not a legal means of fining someone.
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Axiel
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Burns
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I thought one of the main draws of buying a BMW is paying Carbon Fiber prices for 30 year old Aluminum technology!
This is a modern BMW you're talking about
Loser Araysar
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Somehow everything I assume about you, eventually ends up being proven true. Always.
Punko
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Lambourne
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There's a lot of expensive stuff up front even without self driving added. Parts prices on some commonly damaged parts like headlights and mirrors are also really inflated on some cars until the aftermarket catches up.
Tesla's notorious for this, read one case where they charged over $8000 for a new hood that for any other car would be a few hundred at most. Lots of nearly new Teslas end up totaled because of it.
www.caranddriver.com
Tesla's notorious for this, read one case where they charged over $8000 for a new hood that for any other car would be a few hundred at most. Lots of nearly new Teslas end up totaled because of it.
Tesla EVs, Even Mildly Damaged, Are Being Written Off by Insurance Companies
Insurers are increasingly concluding that a broken Tesla is too expensive to fix.
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Lanx
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aren't outrageous panel quotes b/c theyre carbon fiber?There's a lot of expensive stuff up front even without self driving added. Parts prices on some commonly damaged parts like headlights and mirrors are also really inflated on some cars until the aftermarket catches up.
Tesla's notorious for this, read one case where they charged over $8000 for a new hood that for any other car would be a few hundred at most. Lots of nearly new Teslas end up totaled because of it.
Tesla EVs, Even Mildly Damaged, Are Being Written Off by Insurance Companies
Insurers are increasingly concluding that a broken Tesla is too expensive to fix.
Fucker
Log Wizard
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Pure carbon fiber $. Biggest rip are Ferrari parts. Carbon fiber interior bits = carbon fiber covered plastic.
Lambourne
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Teslas are not made of carbon fiber, they're almost entirely aluminium in case of the S and a mix of aluminium and steel for the 3 and Y.
Tesla increasingly uses die cast aluminium to make large parts of the body in one go (instead of having to bond a lot of smaller parts together) which makes the car cheaper to produce but more difficult to repair because the job becomes so complicated as to be economically unfeasible.
Mahes
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DAMN!!
17% of car buyers are paying $1,000.00 a month or more on a car loan. People are paying for seven years... My House mortgage not including tax/insurance is $1320.00.
Feels so good to have bought my Tacoma outright this year.
The market is fine. Nothing to see here.
17% of car buyers are paying $1,000.00 a month or more on a car loan. People are paying for seven years... My House mortgage not including tax/insurance is $1320.00.
Feels so good to have bought my Tacoma outright this year.
The market is fine. Nothing to see here.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Why do you think they did away with those financial literacy classes in high school? Can't have informed and educated consumers.DAMN!!
17% of car buyers are paying $1,000.00 a month or more on a car loan. People are paying for seven years... My House mortgage not including tax/insurance is $1320.00.
Feels so good to have bought my Tacoma outright this year.
The market is fine. Nothing to see here.
Edit: ps.. using a calculator and 6% interest and NY sales tax and rolling everything into the loan, a 62k total financed amount over 84 months is $1013.
That is like a base F-150 or maybe a couple of upgrades.
Lambourne
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New 5 series introduction is next month, some reviewers got to drive a prototype. Has new autonomous driving features and will allow you to signal or confirm a lane change with just a head movement. I'm not really in it for the self driving stuff but this does look like an interesting evolution in the tech.