500SL is spot-on but you need a 97+ — The plastic cladding on the earlier ones is dated as hell. I’d go for the 98+ with the sport package in silver.

This title and lead paragraph are awful. These are neither “good” or “smart” money habits. Why on earth address them as such? Call them “mistaken ideas about money” or something.

THU DAYUM GUBMINT CAN’T TELL ME AH NEED NEW BRAKES WHEN AH AIN’T GOT NO PADS! FREEDUM!

Slower, manual ABS.

$45k is still utterly insane for what it is.

Brit living in the USA for the past 20+ years here... A great explanation, but one correction:

“It will be quietly included at the end of the ‘Clean Bedsheets for Seniors’ Housing Act’”

That bill would never pass. Republicans won’t allow people to “get something for free.”

It’d be the “Surveillance of brown people…

He’s not an idiot, but he’s a filthy liar and is deliberately misleading people into believing they can legally drive this thing on US roads before 25 years are up.

I wouldn’t go so far as “best ever made” but I was driving behind a red sedan last week and couldn’t help but think they really knocked the design out of the park, I think it’s fantastic looking.

“The truth is that Tesla fans, and likely a majority of the Model 3's consumers, don’t want a car that looks exactly like every other 3-series on the road. They want people to know that what they are driving is distinctly different, and by extension that they are different.”

I think this is a factor, but a minor one.…

Joe Elliott of Def Leppard is Sheffield, England born and bred, and talks with a broad Yorkshire accent. When he sings his voice is indistinguishable from his American peers.

Is that also “cultural appropriation?” Is it equally as bad?

A lot of bands do cruises, and that makes sense — Have an awesome vacation and see your favourite band perform too.

This guy’s schtick is building and driving cars. Hard to do that aboard a ship. Are they going to have actual cars involved at the port stops or something?

Not a 1.2 Corsa in Staines?

I’d love to see them come back as an option in the new Lincoln Continental. It just seems so... Right.

A good, cheap way to have the most unique car at the cruise night, for sure. I nearly snapped my neck when I saw a sedan driving the opposite way a few weeks ago.

Had a tech at a brake place try to tell me my Cadillac Catera was FWD and basically a Regal in a new skin. I suggested he jack it up on 4 stands and press the gas pedal.

I live in the US. I drive a Chevy Volt. Quoted 0-60 is 7.8 seconds. Even when I’m driving in normal mode without my foot to the floor I regularly depart a light faster than the traffic around me.

This perception of “slow” in this country is totally stupid, because very few people are using the stated performance of…

Given the tax credits are expected to expire sometime into the reservation period, certain individuals are weighing $1k now vs. $7,500 in a couple of years. It’s not always a stupid decision.

It works great but is so expensive. Just use the generic equivalent: “Laser.”

I bet you the Venn diagram of people who use “bumber” and people who use “labtop” is a single, overlapping circle.

Do you think the value on these things will absolutely crater when, in a few years, you can legally import an equivalent-year model with the better TDi powertrain?