My wife and her paranoia always believed we should test drive an example of the car we want, but never buy that actual example (since we put miles on it during a test drive?)

Local Dodge/Jeep/RAM dealer (still) has a brand new 2016 Challenger Hellcat in Plum Crazy Purple. MRSP is 69,775 and they tacked on a +10K “dealer adjustment” presumably because of the color since there has been nothing added onto the car.

Maybe the bigger issue is “needing” a new car after 3 years, enough so that you purposely fudge the numbers (longer term or higher monthly payment) just to make it happen. Maybe forever ago when not all vehicles would survive much longer than 3 years (if that was ever the case)....but nowadays? I dont think there is…

Interesting (and in the auction pics, it had stripes on the hood and bumper)

This is funny, considering the Sonic in the town I live in replaced an Arby’s.

A close family member of mine went solar (before it turned into a pyramid scheme) along with buying a Model S.

Bravo for such an “appropriate” pic of the establishment.

Flash fried chicken

No, but she is of below average height.  Maybe the Legend stunted her growth!

#KneelAndBobIMeanKneeFORBob

When I met my wife she had a 1986 Legend. Probably one of the first sold in our state and maybe even the country. Back then Honda seemed to “know” transmissions in the sense that there was little to no luxury during shifts. Really firm shifts at normal speed, would chirp wheels into 3rd gear if you wound the engine…

Cut me off, take your lazy old time turning while cutting me off, etc but then going about 10 mph.

That full spoiler protector is worth at least $1,000.

Rust free body!

The Expanse

Live in CT, bought car in VA. They have “cooperative” DMVs so I paid for the CT registration, plates, etc, was given a VA temp plate good for 30 days and went on my way.

When we were looking hard at an Acura TLX, there was a suggested dealer that was outside of our state. I went to their website and they showed, no joke, 480 TLX in stock. Even if only 1/4 of them were physically in stock, that is 120 TLX alone. That is crazy.

2 days ago I was about 10 car lengths behind someone that rear ended the car in front of them hard enough to lift the back end of the car.

I bet people were saying the same thing about VVEL on the VQ37VHR but I dont think Ive ever heard of any failures from it. Fascinating tech, not quite as fascinating as Skyactiv-X or variable compression, but definitely interesting.

This is an awfully long way of saying “the check finally cleared”