My lease on a $30k car is $200 a month. My car we bought for $23k and financed for 5 years is $350 a month, both with employee discounts.

Leasing instead of purchasing is a better option for new automotive tech because there is a contractual agreement by the lien holder to take the vehicle back after the term is up.

Thanks federal reserve. Now I can’t buy the car this year with financing it 144 months.

Where is this going to go besides cars and coffee? Come on.

It’s getting very old that every time some interesting and fun, but tiny car is featured, the first or second post is always how incredibly unsafe they are to crash. No shit, tiny old cars don’t crash well. So what? Somehow the overwhelming majority of owners managed to not die in them.

The crash barrier seems to have escaped relatively unscathed.

I don’t understand this comment... what was the reason you’re being so coy about?

Somebody has to buy new cars, or there are no used cars. Or cars period!

This is about more than just incompetence and not giving a damn about non-rich brown people. This is also about the plundering of Puerto Rico to enrich venture capitalists and other opportunistic predators. The more Puerto Ricans die, leave, or drown in debt, the more opportunities open for grabbing property and…

My normal car, a 2011 Saab 9-5. Bought it 3 years ago to replace my 2007 Saab 9-3 Aero convertible that made 320 hp and 430 pounds of torque. Yay turbo!

We donated a shitload of our kid’s outgrown winter coats, hats, gloves, etc. to our local church that his been inundated with requests from PR families now in the States and with no winter outerwear. With conditions as bad as they are, I have no doubt more PR citizens will have little choice but to leave and seek…

1992 300D - slow, boringly reliable, and staid but kind of classy. Yeah, it’s normal.

A compact Sport Utility Vehicle, automatic only, about as “normal” as one can get now.

2017 Honda Accord Sport Special Edition 6MT.

Most the most “normal” car we have is my wife’s ‘13 C-Max. In fact it is so normal, the only photos I have are after I hit a deer this fall. $6,100 in repairs. Thank god my deductible was only $250.

My wife’s 2017 Toyota Highlander LE-Plus. It is pretty much the epitome of modern ‘financially responsible middle-class with children’

Over here in ol’ Blighty I used to have a K10 Micra that the Pao is based off. Mine had the same 1.0 engine and five speed manual too. It was a buzzy, tinny little car but it had a lot of character. It had some pretty decent coilovers on it and when I combined that with some sticky tyres you almost never had to brake.…

All true. I grew up in a law enforcement family.

There are rules, regulations, and training programs that pertain to trigger discipline.

They fail more often than they should.

That said, if the dipshit who made the call hadn’t been butthurt over a fucking game, this particular instance of awfulness wouldn’t have…

The SWAT officer who pulled the trigger is to blame. The person who called the fake incident into the police is to blame. The person who passed along the victim’s address is to blame.

Did you name it? Do you name your cars? You should name it Gary. Gary is a good name.