Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous

suydam

tjc78 said:

Crying here in NJ …..

And in California . . .
But I wouldn’t trade living here for anywhere else! If you love where you live that’s the important thing.

roadburner

A few more comments on the M Intensive school...
I still don't like the touchscreen in any of the M cars. It is the textbook definition of non-intuitive; most every function is buried in a submenu.

The instructors were great. They knew what we were there for. On the road course we were told, "When you get on the front or back straight put your foot to the floor and DO NOT LIFT until you reach the braking marker. At that point FULLY apply the brakes until you have slowed enough to turn in to the next corner."

All of the cars performed flawlessly; the only heads-up we were given was to pull into the pits if the brake lining light illuminated. I never saw the oil temperature exceed 210F in any of the cars.

As brutally competent as all the cars were, I'm still perfectly content with my C43.

nyccarguy

@suydam said:
And in California . . .
But I wouldn’t trade living here for anywhere else! If you love where you live that’s the important thing.

Here in Fairfield county, CT too. By next year I’ll be up to $1000 per month in property taxes for my home. Plus the tax bill I get from my city every year for the cars.

stickguy

the only non-sales tax in NY is the house property taxes. most of that is school tax. The other property taxes (town, county, fire, library, etc.) is maybe $1k/year I think. still high, but at least we get good schools! No personal property tax on cars, and the DMV stuff (registration/inspection, even dealer doc fees) are pretty low.

oldfarmer50

ab348 said:

graphicguy said:

explorerx4 said:

GM wants to harvest your info instead of it going to Apple or Google.

Talk about a company who can't seem to make up their mind what they want to do. Just saw the new Bolt will have wireless Car Play and Android Auto. But, the way more expensive Blazer EV/Equinox EV...no CarPlay for you. Someone at Chevy can't make up their minds. Or, they realized it was a mistake and are reversing course.

I’m really stumped by what use GM would have for knowing an owner prefers to go to Wendy’s over McD’s, but I’m sure they have such diabolical plans that it is beyond us mere mortals.

The reviews I’ve seen of the new version of the Bolt said that it does not have CarPlay/AA just like other GM EVs do not.

I think they aggregate all data collected on you and develop a profile. Much of it just generates spam ads but check out “surveillance pricing” if you really want to get paranoid.