Jamie recently broke up with his girlfriend, so he is looking for a bit of a reset. He is going to put his stuff in storage and travel around a bit. However, his Fiat 124 Spider Abarth isn’t the best road trip car, so he wants something more ideal for long drives that’s still fun. What car should he buy?
Did you miss me? A full two weeks without a Dopest Cars slideshow, all just so I could go ride motorcycles in the desert. I think it was worth it, even with the heat, but I realize you all must have been so adrift without new listings.
Sometimes concept cars become legendary in their own right, even though they were intended from the beginning to never go into production. Just think about how you felt the first time you saw the Chrysler ME 412 concept. Or that twinge of hope you felt when Mazda showed off the RX-Vision. Or just how much the Maybach…
The casual car owner likely thinks owning a vehicle is pretty straightforward — a bunch of smart people in a building somewhere came up with a car, tested it out, and put it on the market. Gas goes in, going places comes out, nothing left to think about.
Markups are like a mosquito that the industry can’t get rid of. While it might seem like the markup situation isn’t as bad as it was during the pandemic, you can still find plenty of ridiculous car prices. Worse yet, they’re putting people in bad financial situations: recent data has shown that more Americans are…