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Pencil-Necked Finance Dweebs Suggest Anyone Making Six-Figures Should Only Buy a $15,000 Car

The Truth About Cars

percent interest with 20 percent down, Investopedia suggests a total purchase price for your shiny new car – including taxes and whatever other fees a dealer feels like charging that day – at just $16,687. If I made $100,000 per year, I sure wouldn’t be tooling around in a 2016 Equinox. Simple math leaves is with $330.50

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Bob Iger reveals bots were already an issue when Disney tried to buy Twitter

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This was because Disney had tried to purchase Twitter before, and even then, bots were already seen as an issue on the platform. . While Disney’s attempt to purchase Twitter in 2016 had been known for some time as it was part of Iger’s 2019 memoir, the former Disney CEO shared more details about the deal in his recent interview. “We

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Hagerty's 2024 Bull Market List Has a Few Surprises

The Truth About Cars

Hagerty’s list is meant to highlight cars that can be good values with enough research and time on the purchase side. Besides, as Hagerty notes, fun should be the primary goal with car buying, not necessarily making money. Image: Dave Goodman via Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Survey: Fuel efficiency top criterion for US buyers regardless of size of vehicle; good news for start-stop

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American consumers are strongly influenced by fuel efficiency and the price of gas when purchasing a vehicle, according to a new survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of Johnson Controls. This survey was live on 14-17 July 2016. This is up 14% from 2011. Joe Walicki.

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Ford charges Mustang Mach-E customer $10k in doc fees, but it was a big misunderstanding

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was set to be due when the purchase agreement was signed. ” That was precisely his plan, an attempt to free him of an already painful car buying process. Instead, the future Mach-E owner opted to head to the local dealer to talk about the excessive fee, and it turned out to be good news for them. A whopping $16,837.99

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All Teslas in the US get a one month trial of FSD starting this week

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FSD also costs a lot – $12k now, though it used to cost $15k – so a lot of owners don’t bother to buy it. You can also get three months of free FSD by using a current owner’s referral code when purchasing a vehicle. But take rate has been relatively low. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

One would expect to receive some kind of purchasing allowance calculated that’s then tied to income. Real Driving Emissions Step 2” (RDE2) has likewise introduced new emission rules that require gasoline and diesel driven automobiles to have on-road emissions output effectively match laboratory testing.

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