A significant portion of these are instigated and facilitated by dealership employees, to get the customer in the car they want, and to get that particular agent or dealer the monetary reward they want. In many cases, it’s a don’t ask/don’t tell situation. They just sign on the dotted line and trust the agent. They…

I think this is a lot of it. They got some kind of great incentives, discounts, but only if they financed through the automaker’s inhouse financing arm. So they did, and then probably turned around a month later and paid it off with a bank loan with better APR or with cash.

You should stick to 1969 chargers, cause you clearly don’t know anything about inflation.

Just to jump on the Dershowitz-hate train - check out the documentary American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein - the son of holocaust survivors and a very critical voice against Israeli conduct towards Palestine, back before it was all the rage - accused Dershowitz of plagiarism. Dershowitz then…

/s I assume?

They’re still trying to unearth all the details.

Imagine if all performance reviews were set up this way.

If you’re a Patriots fan, and the owner does something stupid... you know it’s stupid, but you still watch the games. You’re not all of a sudden going to start watching the Giants. It’s not an American phenomenon by any means, but partisanship politics is at a new level in the USA. It’s the only thing that can explain…

“already paid” damnit! Are you even an AlMo fan???

I honestly don’t think you’ll see interest rates go up in the short term. From what I’ve heard/read, that’s a strategy reserved to control “normal” inflation, which isn’t really what we’re experiencing right now. I think the consensus is that increasing interest rates would make things catastrophically worse.

Thanks. Sheesh, not sure how I missed that. 

Didn’t Rory Carroll give pretty great ratings to the Caddy CT4/5-V blackwings a while back?

They exist for no other reason than to be touted in political ads by law-n-order types.

As is the case with all of these family-centric shows, once kids start popping off to college or otherwise leaving the house... the game is up.

What show are you watching? He’s not a minor character. He plays pivotal roles in a many of the episodes, and has from the beginning.

Doesn’t most damage occur because of the chase? Pretty sure that’s the whole reason people want to stop them from occurring.

Gotta clean coffee off the monitor now, thanks.

Beyond that, reduce stigma around what? Destructive drinking because you feel trapped by your life?

What is this, a military truck for ants!?

Bram Stroker's Dracula.