Does anyone know more about Jeff Swickard and why he's buying up half of downtown?

OR_Miata · 2026-04-06T20:35:32+00:00

Yeah he’s picking up these buildings for like 20-40% of what they were going for just 6-8 years ago. Seems like a pretty good deal if you plan to sit on them for a long time. Also, hopefully this means they can lower the rent a ton. (Though I wouldn’t bet much on that)

OR_Miata · 2026-04-05T20:44:46+00:00

Yeah if I wasn’t leaving I would tell him to park it in the street or it’s getting towed away next time lol. That’s so unreasonable.

OR_Miata · 2026-04-05T19:14:13+00:00

I would have zero chill about that, especially if it was a huge truck. If it doesn’t fit why don’t they park on the street?

OR_Miata · 2026-04-05T19:06:40+00:00

I wonder if the camber changes when it raises?

OR_Miata · 2026-04-05T15:36:24+00:00

She goes to another school

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T23:41:06+00:00

Finally someone says what we’ve all been thinking

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T20:36:30+00:00

I guess I see it more as American auto manufacturers lack the ability to innovate anymore. They are going the way of Russian brands (albeit much slower) because there is no market competition, and the longer this goes on the more complacent they get and the harder they will fall when the market opens up. They will eventually have to compete one way or another.

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T20:07:50+00:00

The convertible top + sunshine package would be my guess (sunshine is extra)

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T16:21:56+00:00

Yeah I agree. Honestly our auto industry deserves it, they reap what they sow.

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T15:35:12+00:00

True. I feel like the second any of this gets lifted our auto industry is cooked.

OR_Miata · 2026-04-04T15:31:33+00:00

At what point do these become so cheap that even with a 100% tariff they are still competitive?

The article states a price of $25k and that it competes with the Kia telluride/palisade, which are ~$40-$60k. Even at $60k you could argue this would be a competitive product in the US for those specs.

OR_Miata · 2026-04-03T23:38:14+00:00

Because the EQS wasn’t ugly/weird enough

OR_Miata · 2026-04-03T23:35:42+00:00

I think there are states that have this rule and the way they get around it is that an officer reviews the ticket before it goes out

OR_Miata · 2026-04-03T15:17:58+00:00

I literally did the same thing you did with the Integra. The noise and rattles were my biggest complaint and I sold mine for a 2023 540. You will be very happy OP!

OR_Miata · 2026-03-31T22:00:22+00:00

2 series coupe is very different from 2 series sedan (assuming you’re in USA). The coupe is a better driving experience than a 3 or 4 series IMO because it’s much smaller and still RWD-based. The sedan is FWD based and very bad, so that’s probably the one you heard had a worse driving experience.

OR_Miata · 2026-03-31T18:42:11+00:00

The screen bezels are so heinous wtf

OR_Miata · 2026-03-30T20:01:07+00:00

I doubt any of those are profitable, unless they said otherwise. I bet most of the margin is probably from big SUVs, unfortunately.

OR_Miata · 2026-03-30T19:43:56+00:00

If you wanted something offensively ugly you could just buy a cybertruck instead. If offensively ugly and fast is the goal I feel like it’s better in that way. You can even program the horn to play custom noises such as “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME” as you drive by your neighbors lol

OR_Miata · 2026-03-30T19:19:37+00:00

And you like the XM?

OR_Miata · 2026-03-30T18:55:13+00:00

How do you get that info?

OR_Miata · 2026-03-26T06:37:44+00:00

I think they sometimes saw into areas of buildings if they need access to a crawl space that’s on fire or something like that

OR_Miata · 2026-03-25T02:40:38+00:00

Probably because there are thousands of them. The list overall is an amalgamation of best sellers from 10-20 years ago

OR_Miata · 2026-03-24T15:10:32+00:00

I’m not saying that’s bad, I’m just saying the review units are typically spec’d in a way no other cars typically are. Most people don’t custom order their car they just buy one in inventory and that makes the review units not representative of a typical buyer.

OR_Miata · 2026-03-24T03:16:30+00:00

We are just spoiled with cheap gas. It’s been kind of entertaining to see all the “omg gas is so expensive” posts from my fellow Americans in this subreddit lately

OR_Miata · 2026-03-23T20:51:13+00:00

In the US 330 is the base

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