Elsewhere: https://jalopnik.com/people-aren-t-leasing-cars-and-it-s-killing-the-used-m-1850018655

Where would people get this idea???

OMG.
I’m an idiot.
I’ve ALWAYS found these and wondered what they were for.
I figured: drawing little things, kind of a French Curve, only, like, for tiny things?
I’m an idiot.
Thank you so much. 

I used to love these when I did artwork. Also, FYI, in a pinch, a rubber band can also be used as an eraser.

That’s just a Nissan Pulsar, my dude

Perhaps they are people who want an electric car with proper body panel gaps?

First thing I thought of too.

My pappy said, “Son, you’re gonna’ drive me to drinkin’
If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod Lincoln.”

Because “you’re not the boss of me” has become the defining political philosophy of one of our major parties. 

You can also add periods, so jake@gmail.com is the same as j.ake@gmail.com and j.a.k.e@gmail.com.

Generally a used car will “last” as long as your willing to pay to keep it up. My rule of thumb, taught to me by my mom, is keep the car until repairs end up being close to a normal car payment.  But it’s the double edged sword, do you keep it and run it into the ground, OR do you trade it in while you can still get…

Standard AWD is a pretty big differentiating factor, at least against the Corolla.

All wheel drive isn’t offered on the Mazda or (excepting the GR) Corolla.

I havnt found my maintenance difficult on my wrx ever.  Not sure what you mean by difficult. 

The manual transmission is probably a victim of both low sales and the fact that Subaru didn’t figure out how to make their Eyesight safety systems that they tout work with the manual. The 2011 manual Legacy in my driveway may be the last manual I own, but I wouldn’t mind picking up a used manual BRZ someday.

“Buying one from a state that has a notoriously high cost of living seems silly”

I read somewhere that Kid Rock makes music people who how exactly what the Sudafed purchase limit is at Walgreens.

About a decade ago an acquaintance of mine in Austin bought a decent Ferrari 308 - which ran for about a week before catastrophic engine failure. Replacement engines were blindingly expensive and as he’s handy with engineering and fab work he yoinked the bad engine and installed a Honda H22 engine + transaxle from a…

It’s at least 50/50 he’s a douche nozzle.

Seriously, I was coming here to say this exact thing. Austin Clagett did nothing wrong here and is just being screwed over by two companies that were too cheap to cover their offered prize.