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Wow. You’ve owned a lot of cars for a 34-year old.

Not sure if a compliment, ha. I have 4 right now and 5 motorcycles. But these aren't all high end top tier and usually come to me as great deals and I fix them up. Sort of mechanical inheritance. I got the Ford Escape with 250,000 miles for $500 it was a 2015. I did a lot to it and have put 30K on it since. My Electric Hyundai is a $75 a month lease they were doing last year so we use it for commuting and hit the 10K a month mileage. every car I've had has some story to it. I've actually had two Golf Rs. They hole their value exceptionally well though. I pay $30 for the first one and sold It for 27 3 years later. This current one I paid $34 for and KBB/NADA still has it at 27K so I'll just hang on to it since depreciation isn't bad on them. I also have a very good local insurance agent who works with me because I bring cars out of storage and do changes on a monthly basis. We don't always have everything fully insured since most just sit around on a battery tender.

I keep threatening to my GF that I'm going to sell the 4 cars I have now and buy one nice new truck at some point. I am doing a lot of travel to dirt bike events and we're pulling the bikes behind our Golf Wagon.
 
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Not sure if a compliment, ha. I have 4 right now and 5 motorcycles. But these aren't all high end top tier and usually come to me as great deals and I fix them up. Sort of mechanical inheritance. I got the Ford Escape with 250,000 miles for $500 it was a 2015. I did a lot to it and have put 30K on it since. My Electric Hyundai is a $75 a month lease they were doing last year so we use it for commuting and hit the 10K a month mileage. every car I've had has some story to it. I've actually had two Golf Rs. They hole their value exceptionally well though. I pay $30 for the first one and sold It for 27 3 years later. This current one I paid $34 for and KBB/NADA still has it at 27K so I'll just hang on to it since depreciation isn't bad on them. I also have a very good local insurance agent who works with me because I bring cars out of storage and do changes on a monthly basis. We don't always have everything fully insured since most just sit around on a battery tender.

I keep threatening to my GF that I'm going to sell the 4 cars I have now and buy one nice new truck at some point. I am doing a lot of travel to dirt bike events and we're pulling the bikes behind our Golf Wagon.
I hear the TRX is quite nice.
 
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Not sure if a compliment, ha. I have 4 right now and 5 motorcycles. But these aren't all high end top tier and usually come to me as great deals and I fix them up. Sort of mechanical inheritance. I got the Ford Escape with 250,000 miles for $500 it was a 2015. I did a lot to it and have put 30K on it since. My Electric Hyundai is a $75 a month lease they were doing last year so we use it for commuting and hit the 10K a month mileage. every car I've had has some story to it. I've actually had two Golf Rs. They hole their value exceptionally well though. I pay $30 for the first one and sold It for 27 3 years later. This current one I paid $34 for and KBB/NADA still has it at 27K so I'll just hang on to it since depreciation isn't bad on them. I also have a very good local insurance agent who works with me because I bring cars out of storage and do changes on a monthly basis. We don't always have everything fully insured since most just sit around on a battery tender.

I keep threatening to my GF that I'm going to sell the 4 cars I have now and buy one nice new truck at some point. I am doing a lot of travel to dirt bike events and we're pulling the bikes behind our Golf Wagon.

I think it was meant as an expression of respect/ a compliment. :)

Thanks for sharing.

If you haven’t yet done so, you might want to check out the car thread here on Macrumors. Very nice read.
 
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I hear the TRX is quite nice.
I sat in a 1500 Limited today. Very nice interior. Not sure if it has the payload we need though. We're looking next year since our jobs are now fully remote to put our two adventure bikes in the bed and throw on a very light 2 person + dog camper and spend our summer in the mid-west going forward. So that means our bike are 500+650 and both won't fit in a sub-6' bed so 6+ feet and that's 1150 pounds just in bikes before us, our dog and gear hop in so I may be looking at 2500 or better. TRX is off-road biased so has a lower tow / payload than the regular fare. We were waiting on the cyber truck but now that we've had an EV for 2 years, I Just don't think I want to road trip with one. Once you actually load it up, I just don't know how much range we'll have to work with.

I think it was meant as an expression of respect/ a compliment. :)

Thanks for sharing.

If you haven’t yet done so, you might want to check out the car thread here on Macrumors. Very nice read.

Will do, thanks!
 
Apple car is slated as more autonomous-looking, the scale of no one driving, far exceeds that for the lessor "What if" kind of situation..

Blind people may now enjoy comfort as a single driver only, or assistant passenger, not having to know or see, but that relies 100% you trusting tech NOT to stuff up "ever"

That's a pretty big wager. not to mention the accident lever increases.. when our Apple macs can't be 100% perfect all the time..

Just because you pour heaps of money into something that suppose to keep you safer 10,000 times over doesn't mean the logic is any better.. If it was, then Apple car would be able to distinguish between a road sign covered over, humans would simply know straight off. and all of these kinds could of been fixed sooner,rather than later..

As in it takes a test drive to "discover" an issue... when you can fix that in the early stages.. why wait ? The other side of the story is, Apple is delaying it because of these issue cropping up, they didn't see.
 
Does anybody believe that Apple will actually get in the automobile business?

The history of corporate America after WWII shows that usually when a large and successful corporation steps outside of its area of expertise, the results are anywhere from expensive to disastrous.

IBM buys Rolm phone. Destroys it.
Netware buys Wordperfect, takes their eye off their mainstream product and Microsoft zooms by.
AOL buys Time Warner. Crash
Microsoft buys Nokia. Dump
Lately, AT&T buys Direct TV. (This one made absolutely no sense, even to an economics noob such as me. It was like buying more paddlewheel river steamers to try to catch the new railroads.)
Dozens more...

So Apple builds a car? "Beep. The problem of the car suddenly steering left at high speed will be addressed with CarOS 14.6.5."

Actually, while I think Apple would love to have the electronic guts of the car, I can't see them actually stamping out metal and rubber.
 
Does anybody believe that Apple will actually get in the automobile business?

The history of corporate America after WWII shows that usually when a large and successful corporation steps outside of its area of expertise, the results are anywhere from expensive to disastrous.
It's hard to believe your post wasn't planned as the perfect set-up for this infamous quote about Apple getting into the phone business...

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
—Palm CEO Ed Colligan, November 16, 2006
 
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Does anybody believe that Apple will actually get in the automobile business?

The history of corporate America after WWII shows that usually when a large and successful corporation steps outside of its area of expertise, the results are anywhere from expensive to disastrous.

IBM buys Rolm phone. Destroys it.
Netware buys Wordperfect, takes their eye off their mainstream product and Microsoft zooms by.
AOL buys Time Warner. Crash
Microsoft buys Nokia. Dump
Lately, AT&T buys Direct TV. (This one made absolutely no sense, even to an economics noob such as me. It was like buying more paddlewheel river steamers to try to catch the new railroads.)
Dozens more...

So Apple builds a car? "Beep. The problem of the car suddenly steering left at high speed will be addressed with CarOS 14.6.5."

Actually, while I think Apple would love to have the electronic guts of the car, I can't see them actually stamping out metal and rubber.

I don’t expect them to enter manufacturing for sure just like their other products.
 
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