Yep, shouldn't eat while driving. Not big macs, not granola, nothing.

The only answer is what you can afford. If you can find what you want for what you can afford, you win! If you can't, you keep looking and saving until you can. If you just don't have enough to buy what the dealer is selling, you can't badger them into discounting it until you do. Cars are priced where demand is.

OK, that's fine as far as it goes, but the dealers who have called me with a better offer after I left haven't gotten the memo.

Nice. It's a big lever in the consumer's hands. They know it's easier to keep you there than to get you back if they want that sale.

No matter what the numbers are, the ball is in their court when you walk. Even if they're low, they'll have to get lower for you to come back.

No. 1 is in the right place. Never ever be afraid to walk away. If it's a dealer, they will call you back almost 100% of the time and probably offer a little more to sweeten the deal. Once you're off the lot, it's on them to convince you to come back.

I should mention that last time I bought a car, the dealer was willing to match the rate I got from my credit union.

Right, well that's why you should know what they mean by "certified". For some, like your car it really means something. For others not so much. It pays to find out.

Considering that 50hp will get you to work and back in a car of the same weight, 400+ hp is insane. Granted, your palms might sweat a bit getting on the freeway, but it wasn't long ago that a typical econo-whatever had double-digit horsepower numbers and people didn't think twice about it. The extremely sane third…

It's a telling indicator of Motown's influence that the sound has been internalized at every corner of the world and continues to enjoy revivals and remixes all over just like blues rock did over the past several decades. Fitz and the Tantrums have their own take on Motown, sounding familiar and fresh at the same…

The one that's easiest to get to is on Woodley near Victory by the Army Reserve lot. Not much to see there now. Just some concrete and piles of dirt beyond a chain link fence but there are still rectangular troughs there where the missiles used to be stowed underground. That's the easiest way to identify old sites…

Heh, there's all kinds of cold-war era relics around LA. I know of several Nike missile sites in (!) and around the city. An then there's all the aerospace development and manufacturing stuff in the area.

For some people, money is just numbers.

I'd be curious to see how it does on the all-paved version.

Oh my god! Thank goodness they stepped back!

He's super lucky he stopped where he did. Flash floods like that can easily be deadly. One wonders if there was anyone in that sedan we saw and if they got out.

The environment doesn't bribe party officials.

Yes, this is what I've been saying for years. For that vast majority of trips for the vast majority of us, an EV would work just fine. I could live with an EV, no problem. On those few occasions when I have to get out of town, I can easily rent an ICE car.

Since it was in a posh neighborhood, it was one rich person taking out some frustration on another rich person, so the class warfare angle doesn't hold water for me. If shit had actually gotten real, it would have been a molotov cocktail, not an egg.