tommcparland
Tom McParland
tommcparland
Tom is a contributing writer for Jalopnik and runs AutomatchConsulting.com. He saves people money and takes the hassle out of buying or leasing a car. (Facebook.com/AutomatchConsulting)

Maybe the last two will help, but  I don’t think the development costs of selling dozens of us manual cars is going to help them at all. Read more

Exactly...if Nissan and their dealers didn’t use that buyer pool to peddle mediocre products with predatory practicecs they could carve out a market. Read more

New WCSYB rule...you can’t submit an entry mentioning a dog without also sending a picture of said animal. :D Read more

True...but because I’m a dork as soon as I clicked on the article and saw the car my reaction was “Why is he driving a Ghibli?” and this was before I read the post.  Read more

Some dealers haven’t gotten the memo...or they have a local market that will still pay big bucks.  Read more

I totally agree with you, if a delaer wants to put a big markup on a 100k Hummer EV, ZR1, or Porsche whatever, I don’t care...those people can simply chose to not buy the car if the price doesn’t make sense for them. Read more

The RAV4 Hybrid is a benchmark for compact crossovers. Since this article is targeted towards your “average” car buyer, using  GR86 data points wouldn’t be super helpful.  Read more

 A year ago I would have agreed with you, now that inventory has improved it’s not super difficult to score one at sticker or even slightly below. 
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Yeah new car APRs are starting to come  down, but the used market hasn’t caught up yet. Read more

Because we haven’t gotten enough recent submissions from readers to do it that way...and frankly it’s always been this way even when we were getting a ton of submissions years ago, by the time we got around to a topic the reader usually already  bought a car.  This column has been for “entertainment purposes”  Read more

Honda Fit...but make it an EV. Honda can borrow Chevy’s electric tech from the upcoming Bolt (like they did with the Prologue) and make a new Fit now with even better interior packaging and flexiblity.

How much do you need to make to afford this?... A Tourbillon dollars! Read more

Thanks for the update...a 911 great to check off the bucket list Read more

IIRC this is the Korean one...I think the Envista is the Chinese one Read more

The LC was my first thought but quality inventory sub $60k is really thin...even 60-65k is tough Read more

In additon to Amber I had one as well, one of my all time favorite cars.  Read more