I just wasn’t expecting “learning your separated spouse has been drawing from your paid off home loan to fund their premium Claude.AI subscription” to be one of ‘em.
It’s a one owner D5 with about 223000 miles on the clock (converted from km for reader convenience).
I’m told they’re a pretty stout mill; even though diesel isn’t as attractive in Australia as it once was, you’d need to be getting somewhere from 7.5L-8.5km/100km before it became cheaper to drive a petrol car.
I’m not deterred by high mileage particularly, or even parts availability, just trying to be eyes open about the proposition. If anything, the one owner thing is more of a red flag raising the possibility of gradual deterioration that’s passed unnoticed. For context this would be taking pressure off a 1991 Saab 900i convertible with a hair over 160000 freedom units on it. That Swede still returns about 10L/100km or 23.5 MPG (American) from the NA 2.1 and five speed.
My team knew they were being deprecated at the end of June, but not that they were being removed entirely.
And it’s not even the end of June yet! We were expecting to be able to use them for one more week of after-action reporting, as our most recent attempts to replicate functionality couldn’t yield the same level of forwards-looking data.
Like I get that some organisations treat a 4 week cycle as a ‘month’. I’m all in favour for calendar regularisation, George Eastman’s 13 month proposals, and complaining about the lousy Smarch weather, but say what you mean, damnit.
Truly another case of Australia and the United States being two nations* separated by a common language.
*at time of writing
I’m not building them for play so more as just the vibe. Got a lot of technicals and cars straight out of Interstate ‘76 to get out of my system.