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Out here freezing warming truck up to make an airport drop off. Cold start, it’s been a few days.
You can’t feel or hear anything. I’ve been touching everything in here wheel, shifter, door panels, etc. for any NVH. Nothing gets through. Impressive. Especially since more than one outlet is complaining about the 3.4tt idling roughly. I assume and hope the Land Cruiser came this refined, too.
So I have a 2001 es300 in pretty good shape. (Knock wood) So I'm on my way home and I need to get over in the left lane to make a turn lane. I can't because I got this white Scion riding my Blindspot. So I tap the brakes a tad to get behind him and he evens up with me and throws up the universal sign for money (aka Johnny Manziel) so I just gas it and shoot in front and get in my turn lane. The guy now comes up on my passenger side and yells "how much" excuse me"how much for the car" I just bought it. He asks how much and I tell him(3700) how many miles(136K) then yells as he peels off, your so fu#&@!? Lucky! Made me smile. I've had some pretty nice cars over the years but have never had anything like this to happen. Being a Lexus owner for a couple months now, I understand the enthusiasm. ❤️ My new love
CarDealershipGuy (on Twitter) just posted the average auto loan rates for January
New: 8.41%
Used: 12.88%
Both decade highs. Source: DealerTrack
Crazy, and rates are gonna keep on climbing. Obviously these averages factor in all kinds of credit scores, etc. so we all know better deals can be had.. but still..
CarDealershipGuy (on Twitter) just posted the average auto loan rates for January
New: 8.41%
Used: 12.88%
Both decade highs. Source: DealerTrack
Crazy, and rates are gonna keep on climbing. Obviously these averages factor in all kinds of credit scores, etc. so we all know better deals can be had.. but still..
Are those for Tier 1 borrowers? Or an overall average for all borrowers, of all credit scores?
Are those for Tier 1 borrowers? Or an overall average for all borrowers, of all credit scores?
Can't be tier 1. I just spot-checked a couple. The two credit unions I'm a member of are at 4.99% and 5.64% for 72 months. Chase is at 6.14%. Bank of America only discloses 60 month rates (5.49%) unless you begin an application, but I suspect they're in the high 5s to low 6s.
So given that, there must be an awful lot of people paying well over 10% on new-car loans to have the average settle out at 8.41%.
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I’m putting my first experience with MB and details of the first service and the prognosis in my thread, but I did enjoy checking out the showroom.
There was a $200,000 GLS600 Maybach that I checked out. Whew. A few shocking things, though good and bad.
Ballin'.
Not a fan of these style rims except here, whew.
Power running boards elegantly come out, lit up door sills of course
Please don't tell me that's orange peel in a $200,000 Mercedes. Zoom in if you have to. That can't be the norm, look how smudgy it is.
This is unacceptable plastic, or a cheap metal.
Nice.
Underwhelming, especially compared to the doorhandles in my SL. These are standard issue, nothing special for the price. Lexus has this down better currently I think
Stunning vehicle but a few flaws. Please someone tell me I'm crazy and that paint job is normal/good??????
a Mercedes-Benz should come from Germany