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That's a heck of a lot of assumptions you have there, most of them in your favor. Not usually a good recipe for security decisions. These videos are from modern systems, you can look up newer videos of the newest cars if you want. The security system isn't anywhere near as complicated as you're...

This is the dealer being the dealer. There's obviously no problem with any product they sell and no known vulnerabilities. Evidence to the contrary - If you need to see just how easy it is and why you SHOULD disable the proximity unlock on your doors at a minimum and place your keys in a...

You're not going to get much positive feedback for systems the dealer themselves don't install from the dealer. Quick notes: Factory Alarm: Look at the videos on YT about how thieves defeat factory alarms to drive off with the car. The factory alarm isn't deterring whole car theft and actually...

A few have already popped up in my local area by dealerships. By people who live the YOLO life and couldn't make their first payment. Just look at your favorite used car search engine. You'll see FL5's with 1000+ miles posted for $58k+ at dealerships. Happens with every hype car in an era of...

Don't. It's likely no worse than any other dino oil house brand and it'll meet the base requirements for the spec but is there any reason why you're looking to simply go for the minimum requirement? If going conventional oil wait for sales on established oils like Castrol GTX or something. Or...

Is that just part of the 'AcuraWatch' system that's noted? No idea if they have multiple tiers of it as they list Blind Spot / Cross Traffic Monitoring separately. Ultimately this becomes likely an easier to get and marginally more refined CTR for 30 lbs net difference. Since I believe the...

External theft is more likely than taking the whole car - true. So your wheels, emblems, wing, bodykit lips are the most likely theft targets. Security screws, wheel locks, filling in hex screws with glue (not hard to remove, just time consuming with a pick) are most of the solutions to that...

Ultimately you already have one of the most effective deterrents from the theft of the car. It's a manual. 80-90% of people don't even know how to start a car with a stick much less drive it away. Everything else is just a bonus. Since to disable the car it's as simple as pulling the fuel pump...

From what I understand the primary source of modern attacks are 1) Old codes: Honda, supposedly, only had a few base codes when they first went to the fob system. So if one found or simply copied a signal you had something like a 1 in 8 chance of being able to access the car. Honda never...

@TypeRD - Since you decide to block me over it. It's remarkable to get so irked by something when you say, The CTR simply doesn't have a profit margin or volume sufficient enough for it to really be the priority. Yes, I acknowledge I overemphasized it but still the whole point is you made a lot...

So collectability is PART of the supply/demand equation and likely the only thing that really sustains a car to increase in price over MSRP over time. 99% of cars are depreciating assets. Snipping a ton of this since you're running under the following assumptions. 1) Production is factory and...

I have to laugh as even per your own example, a short supply used market (for ALL vehicles in 2022) for your Chevy Equinox example, allows new pricing to be marked up even higher. Example of let's say there's 50 Equinox's in every state under 2 years old used and there's only 2 new ones in every...

Truthfully I hope this is feigned ignorance. As you don't read an explanation for too many words and ignore the FK8 first 3 years example. Having pre-owned cars available means new cars carry less of a premium - it isn't difficult. FK8 new pricing only dropped for the first 3 years. Supply and...

Let's break this down a bit. 1) "FL5 production numbers will not reach FK8 production numbers" Who knows really. We're literally within the first 4-5 months of sale and we're already writing the future production in stone. 2) "in the world we live in today (which I can see easily continuing...

Explanations are too much? Sure... TL : DR - FK8 price history for the first 3 years.

If there's a healthy pre-owned market, new prices are very unlikely to be marked up with ridiculous ADM's unless the dealers have no intention of turning over the car. Think of any high hype car from the past pre-pandemic 10 years and you're welcome to go back and look at the pricing histories...

The history of the FK8 prior to Honda announcing there will be no immediate next generation, putting the next generation in limbo which immediately began to spike prices if it was the last. Before the announcement one could hunt and pick up the FK8 at MSRP. Or just like now that the FL5 is...

No one said anything about any specific individual taking that kind of loan anyway. It's simply a reflection of what will be on the market in his 2 year window time frame. We've already seen YOLO kids take that loan and they're unlikely to keep it long term creating additional supply in the time...

We're seeing you don't understand the consequences of the average American. It means they can't afford these things if the financial situation changes even slightly. It's exactly how 2008 happened. Some financial institution (along with some help from the Fed) got people into homes they couldn't...

So now that you've got that out, let's see what I actually said. "Americans are financially stupid [there's no formal education for any of it during all of high school or even college] and don't understand a 8% loan on a depreciating asset for 5+ years is a dumb proposition." At no point did...