We splurged for the 49" about a month ago for this price. We have had no fewer than three adults who came in while the TV was on for kids, and I turned to picture mode after, say “where’d the TV go?” or something similar. Like, they legitimately were confused because they heard a TV when they came in and didn’t notice…

We splurged for the 49" about a month ago for this price. We have had no fewer than three adults who came in while…

Beat me to it. Unmistakable.  

I always tell my wife the best part of eating a fudgy brownie is washing it down with a cold glass of milk.  Love that stuff.

Sure we can do that. And while we’re at it, we can also factor in what depreciation costs on a new car, what interest costs on a new car, as well as what higher insurance premiums cost on a newer car.

That may be true!  I literally pulled up CL and searched for cars between 4-6k with under 120k miles and threw up some that, with 120 seconds of thought, appeared like they’d get you comfortably from A to B for a while.

I’m not debating the sweet spot of how much to spend on used, I’m just challenging the “unrealistic” term Tom used when describing keeping your car budget to 10% of take home. It’s not unrealistic at all. I commuted daily on something that was 2% of mine from 2016 to this summer. Didn’t put a dime in it because I did…

Neither. Higher cost of living isn’t just coastal.

I’ve driven used cars my whole life, as as my dad (got my miser DNA from him). I can’t remember ever changing a bushing. Old cars and new cars eat tires, wear belts and brakes, and dirty fluids at the same rate so those are basically a wash with the older car maybe needing one extra set of tires/belt/brake pads over…

That seems a little insane. But honestly that tells me either car prices are too high overall, income is too low, or both.

I think that’s right, I’m just really confused about the specific term I put in quotes, “unrealistic”. That term makes it sound like “pfft, no one is going to drive around a car only worth 10% of their take home pay”. When in fact, that’s what a lot of people have done for years and continue to do (or even less than…

So you think that he says it is “unrealistic” because the average consumer is not able to wrench, and so the risk is too high? If so, it would be nice for him to clarify. His next paragraph is all about being able to afford more if you tie yourself down to monthly payments for five years.

So by “unrealistic”, you think that Tom meant that there is not inventory to support buying in this way? Read his sentence again that I quoted. He said saying that they should do it is unrealistic. Not if they could.

to assume that someone who brings home $60,000 should be grabbing a $6,000 beater from Craiglist is pretty unrealistic.

But... you typed a true statement. He typically has terrible takes and this one is not terrible.  Where’s the joke?

To be fair, saying that an EV Crossover should not be named after a legendary muscle car is the lukest warm of all takes that have ever been taken.

It may not have been very good, but it sure was freaking awesome. Last of a dying breed. A no-nonsense purpose-built two-seat pure (gtfo about the lack of a manual) sports car that didn’t pretend to be anything else. It looked the part, sounded the part, and mostly played the part based on reviews.  It just wasn’t…

I honestly barely see Mustang in the front, at least from renders and spy shots.  Obviously the tails on the rear are Mustang, but the front just looks like any other Ford front end from the past five years. 

I don’t think anyone will ever do that.  I haven’t thought about one of these cars in 20 years.  Why would anyone else, even further in the future?

I’ve never so much as picked up a PS controller, much less play a second of an Uncharted game, but I’d watch a full-length film of this with Fillion starring. 

Super Baseball 2020 was fantastic too.