I enjoyed my time with my Quattroporte. I didn’t buy it new, however - no one does. The new generations aren’t that unreliable past the 15-16 MY, and MY 17 on the Levante. I had zero issues. One has to stay away from the base models which are very sparse. Most people just don’t get hung up on the parts sharing. Most owners park, drive it and enjoy it like any other car.
When I lived in North Scottsdale, I remember driving it to the The Biltmore - Waldorf Astoria for a finance conference, and people loved it. There was a party out by the circle where you pull up and a woman goes “IS THAT MY RIDE? I want THAT!”
The realization was: No one gave 2 shits about a Panamera when I was in it. Or a M550i. Or M5. They’re enthusiast jerk off cars. It’s ok to say, no one knows/cares much about them. But you can’t replace that feeling you get, and the memory. That was every car owners dream.
I have another BMW now, though. No dealership close for anything too exotic lol.
Tack on the neg equity from the last bad deal, 20% interest for subprime and an extended warranty for $7k and the owner of the dealer has a nice yacht payment on this one.
Idk, they seem to have been going this much at this age for a while even before Covid. Like it or not, for whatever reason the used older stripped down wranglers carry a high price.
Someone posted that they were negotiating a 10k markup on a new Prius. So when you compare stuff like that to this wrangler which will probably be negotiated down 1-2k, seems like its “reasonable” in this day and age.
own two 991.1s with over 90k miles and have had little to no repairs needed on them. These are rentals mind you so they arent babied either. Would easily say that the 991.1 and 991.2 gens are some of the most reliable 911 models we’ve had.
