Body Kits And Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In This Week's Car Buying Roundup

Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell it to you for an extra cheap good deal. One Hertz customer took to Reddit to show off a screenshot of the deal he got directly from Hertz, a 2023 Tesla Model 3 with 30,000 miles on the odometer for $17,913. - Bradley Brownell Read More

The average new car transaction price these days is nearly $50,000, which isn’t great when you consider the median income in this country is about the same. So if you need to replace your current car but can’t afford something new, you definitely aren’t alone. Decades of wage stagnation have put Americans in a tough spot and not just when it comes to being able to afford a new car. - Collin Woodard Read More

It’s no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk’s stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world. - Logan Carter Read More

Wally has a 2010 Mazda5 that has done an excellent job of a family hauler with it’s balance of reasonable size and usability. But the old Mazda is reaching the end of it’s days and he wants to replace it with a similar type of car with more modern features. What car should he buy? - Tom McParland Read More

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice EVO X represents the last hurrah for Mitsubishi’s long-running rally car for the street. We’ll have to decide if this one’s price tag warrants any applause. - Rob Emslie Read More

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice hot Audi has an effective factory theft deterrent—a manual transmission. Let’s see if its price makes it a steal anyway. - Rob Emslie Read More

The early 2000s are back, baby. The tech sector seems ready to pop, the kids are layering multiple tank tops above their baggy low-rise pants, and cars are getting lower, wider, and visually louder. Wide bodies with garish liveries are all the rage in the drift and time attack scenes, and those styles are trickling down to street cars — street cars that need body kits to fit the look. If only there were some sort of massive lot of ‘90s-’00s body kits sitting in England, all for sale as a bunch. - Amber DaSilva Read More

In a way, it makes sense that tall drivers get a lot of attention. The Mazda MX-5 Miata may be great, but it’s hard to enjoy if you’re too large to physically fit inside. At the same time, though, tall people aren’t the only ones who have problems fitting into cars. Sometimes, it feels like automakers just completely forget that short drivers exist, too. Not everyone can be 5 foot, 6 inches, buddy. - Collin Woodard Read More

With a recent paint job and a clean MB-Tex interior, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 300TD looks ready for duty. We’ll still have to decide what such duty might be worth. - Rob Emslie Read More

Today being Christmas, the height of the gift-giving season, we’ll need to decide if this Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is a proper present or if its price makes you hope it comes with a return receipt. - Rob Emslie Read More