Thinking about ditching the genesis...

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yeah i think i'm gonna do the work and keep it.
ordered new plugs today at the dealer. no one in the state has 'em.

i hate that i like cars. i wish i could be happy with a fucking metro.
 
B you just need to figure out a way to make enough money to not give a damn.

Buy a z06 for a daily toy. Get bored with it and trade it in on a 911 turbo 3 months later. Get bored with that and trade it in for a ford raptor, get bored with that and trade it in on a new s5 get bored with that...
 
someone should make a place that lets you pay X a month like a country club, and you just go get a car. When you're sick of it, go get another one from the lot and yours goes in for a round of maintenance and goes back on the lot for the next person to try out for a while.

serious bankroll needed.
serious insurance needed.
 
You could lease the cars for month intervals and hook up with an ins company that will sell insurance policies to these people required by you to have. Would take some bank roll
 
The cars would get the fuck beaten out of them...
 
Got to pay to play, got to charge more. With all the nanny systems out there they would have to put some kind of abuse monitor in the cars to charge accordingly for abuse. I was told by an old coworker that his company owned econoline van's check engine light came on for excess speeding and keeping the rpms too high for too long.
 
someone should make a place that lets you pay X a month like a country club, and you just go get a car. When you're sick of it, go get another one from the lot and yours goes in for a round of maintenance and goes back on the lot for the next person to try out for a while.

serious bankroll needed.
serious insurance needed.

Vanilla Ice tried this, lost his shirt.

I used to do this with some people I worked with. 4 of us, each had 4 or more cars. We would trade just "whenever". nothing exotic, but trucks, 2 seaters, 4 doors, whatnot.
 
IMO stupid idea that only makes sense to us lesser people. So the people it appeals to are people who don't have money and can't afford it anyways. People who were never an option as a customer.

Anyone with enough money to join would have zero issues flipping their own cars.

Bottom line, if you have the coin to drop 100k in full on a car, or spend $1000-2000 a month on a lease payment, You don't give a fuck about renting. Besides, that screws up the best part about flipping cars every 6 months.

The new car smell.
 
The 6000 pounds of safety equipment and black boxes that tattle on you.

More, more and more airbags.

Stage 3 antilock brakes. 2 subscription based pieces of technology (Standard !) $25 tires and environmentally safe (Yet completely unresponsive) brake pads. Miles and miles of restrictions.

I'll take the odor of burned oil over new car smell anyday.
 
For what it's worth you are very special. Chances are if a business model does not fit your needs and likes, it will work.

Lets say this business idea uses newer cars in the $18-30k range so monthly club cost could be affordable for the average person. Insurance is one thing but how do you get paid? Up front with a contract? Month to month with a super high repo rate?
 
For what it's worth you are very special. Chances are if a business model does not fit your needs and likes, it will work.

Lets say this business idea uses newer cars in the $18-30k range so monthly club cost could be affordable for the average person. Insurance is one thing but how do you get paid? Up front with a contract? Month to month with a super high repo rate?

Now you're talking about opening up another Zip car business. That's been done, and it's not as impressive as the magazines said it was.
 
Now you're talking about opening up another Zip car business. That's been done, and it's not as impressive as the magazines said it was.

I wouldn't touch any of these car business ideas with a 10 foot pool. Even if you gave me $50k to put towards the business I'd still say fuck that.

Although zip car does seem to do well around here. I see them on the washington dc beltway all the time. Although it makes more sense in a major city like DC.
 
zipcars work great in seattle too.


There is an entire business model already built for what ya'll are talking about in the transportation industry. Daily/Monthly/Quarterly/variable term rentals in the trucking industry in new top of the line trucks is very popular. A lot of companies have variable cycle in needs and its more beneficial to just "rent" for seasons in NEW custom trucks then to lease or buy them. Often the more serious customers end up getting into longer term leases (12mos-84) for a good portion of the residual, but the franchise/dealer model still holds up really well with rentals, especially in the summer and if their is a good used sales market for that type of truck.
 
It would be like a lease. any damage gets billed at time of turn-in. terms are pre-set. 3 months? 6 months? something... i don't know. I think it could be a big hit in the 5-600 a month price range for stuff like 2-3 year old CPO-type cars last m3's, s4's, etc etc in that price range
 
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