When you write off the interest you are getting something like 25% of it (depending on tax bracket) as your actual net gain. If you pay a little extra you are effectively making the rate of return equivalent to your mortgage rate....but you don’t get the direct benefit until you reach the later years of the original…

This summer I got a 2% CD from my credit union. And a 1.9% interest rate from the dealer where I bought a CPO less than 1 year old car for 12k off the original sticker price. It’s all about an appropriate balance of risk in your “portfolio.”

Nissan Pulsar Sportbak reminds me of Centari’s car from The Last Starfighter.

Simple staple foods vary week to week. I keep a mental list of things I buy often (Rice, pasta, bread, veggies, chicken etc.) and note what they cost in various stores and what prices are good when on sale. Usually if chicken isn’t on sale, it means pork is. I don’t go to the store thinking, “I need chicken.” I go…

I don’t give a rat’s ass about the NFL. Therefore I’m excited about NOT paying additional taxes for additional traffic, which is all I’d have really gotten out of this deal.

It isn’t that handling can’t be measured. I’m saying that the likely customers have a 1 foot ruler and you’re asking them to measure a mile. In both A8 and S8 configurations, this car already dramatically exceeds all the handling requirements of its target market. Adding to that with S8 Plus or complaining about the…

EVERYTHING is at the top of the list because those people spending that much money want to hear and be able to repeat “THIS CAR IS THE BEST MONEY CAN BUY.” But they don’t really use much of what it can do. Here’s a whole article on it. I’d argue that power is more obvious and visceral and therefore has to be more…

Umm, that is what the article is all about. The S8 Plus, which costs around 160k and therefore does compete directly with S65 and 750Li. Am I being trolled?

I’m not kidding, are you kidding? Someone with 160k to spend on their new car and is looking at an S8, S65 and 750Li (they are definitely not looking at an M6) will want to say the car handles well, they will never ever need it to actually handle well. They want it to be able to go almost 200mph, they will never go…

Fair enough, it’s not as if it is going to wallow around like an old Sebring (or a new Sebring). It’s an Audi and it’ll be alright. That’s kind of my point too, nobody really buys it planning to take it to a track day and give in a workout through the chicanes. It’s more like, “Handling? Yes, it has some.”

How many customers for this car do you think would put “handles well” in the top 10 list of characteristics that matter? Who is cross-shopping this with an MX-5? I appreciate this question with respect to S4 or S3 or Audi’s of that sort. In the A8, S8 world it makes perfect sense, add room to the cabin and help the…

I don’t really have an abiding love for Messi, I respect and admire his skills for sure but I’m not particularly a fan of him or Barcelona. That said, am I the only one who sees Mbiwa initiate the head to head contact and Messi (over)react? I mean, he’s still wrong because he escalates but it doesn’t look like he…

Exactly!!!!!! It’s like saying, “Don’t be a person who doesn’t win the lottery, be a person who wins!!!” This is perhaps the dumbest article I’ve ever seen on lifehacker. It’s great to know what you are owed if you ever get involuntarily bumped. If you get offered compensation for voluntarily switching flights and…

Whatever else this advice may have been, it was timely. I was actually tasked by my girlfriend with reserving accommodations aboard a cruise-ship as part of her friend’s dubiously chosen Caribbean destination wedding. Based on your advice I have chosen a port balcony and declined the drinks package. Should the…

Or you could look at the data and relevant facts like a smart person? Q1 to Q1 they were up 2%, then fell by 7% Q2 to Q2....of course Q1 was bigger overall so the net effect was a 2% decline for the first half of the year. Then take into account the production shortages for the most popular versions, which were most…

Which is beautiful, because as far as I can recall they NEVER EVER show you anything about the other nightclub which is supposedly the linchipn if the emnity between Tilghman and Wesley.

I don’t want to tell you what to do with your life either, but I learned it by watching you.

“Soccer matches are 90 minutes long, and most of the time the ball is nowhere near a goal and 18 of the 22 players on the pitch are walking.”

Maybe a bit strident, but I am with you in the sense that I somewhat resent the sentiment that manuals are objectively better. If you like manuals, then they are better. If you don’t like manuals, either in general or in your daily driver or in certain kinds of cars, that doesn’t make you, “Not a real enthusiast,” or…

Ummm, yes?