Had a ‘00 E320 wagon and BY GOD I miss that feature.

“They said we shouldn’t be double parking because the buses are taking pictures and sending tickets,”

Carrot?

Well, at least someone’s talking sense here.

recommendations “according to Jalopnik readers” and “according to Consumer Reports” do battle in my brain for least enticing.

I’ll never own a car that looks as good as my 200o E-class wagon did. It made it to 250k miles. I still miss it.

You must be a Gen X-Z or whatever.

Still a couple of things sneaking their way into your explanation:

As soon as the seller starts actively covering up whats wrong with the vehicle the ‘buyer beware’ BS stops. Not surprising that in bumf**k Ohio this isn’t considered fraud.

She likely didn’t apply to more banks because the dealership told her they could get the financing as spelled out in the bill of sale. Once they sell her the car specifying loan terms and it becomes the dealership’s responsibility to get her those terms or carry the financing themselves. That’s why repossessing the…

Your non-physicist mind is exactly correct. My physicist mind wishes the author had said it that same way.

Well, I can open the back of my Subaru manually. There are springs that make it so that I don’t have to push to hard to open or close.

Part of the reason they changed it was because it didn’t always launch you up and over. There were even times where it gave you just enough oomph to launch you up and get you stuck at the top. I was at the park once when it happened.Crew had to climb to the top to give the cars a bit of a shove. It took a while. We…

Hey - don’t let reasonable statistical inference get in the way of a hot take!

Not quite buying the supposition that cell phone cameras have polarizing filters. There’s no reason for them to have them and a quick search end up with photographers talking about how to add polarizers to cell phone for certain effects. And I can rotate my polarized sunglasses in front of my cell phone lens and see…

While that’s an excellent idea for most that wouldn’t solve the issue presented here. For the Jalopnik example the question was what luxury car to buy to reaplace a BMW X5. It wasn’t the taxi fare but the idea of not driving anywhere at anytime that signaled a loss of independence.

And I guess those were your 440 accomplices in the shredder.

That needs to be filled with Richard Scarry characters riding through the Alps.

He’s just excited that he’ll still be able to drive after the frunk breaks his other fingers.

Hey, at least it wasn’t “Thanks for playing.”