If you want to get screwed by a lender with exorbitant interest rates why put up your car as collateral, and instead just head over to the payday loan shop? At least when you default you’ll still have your car...

There is some language in the bill promoting autonomous vehicle research; not much, but disingenuous to suggest there is none. (Take a peek at Sec. 5505, for example, which provides up to 20 grants for this exact purpose. There is some money appropriated elsewhere, too.) That and saying the bill is “heavily…

I’ve got the VIN saved somewhere of my first car, an ‘02 Subaru Impreza wagon; always planned on buying it back someday. I always hated that it wasn’t a WRX but I learned to drive stick on that car, impossible clutch and all, and would love to bring it back into the family.

DHL does helicopter delivery in a few US cities, plus London. I would like to reach the point in my career where my signature is so important that documents need to be choppered in for me.

It was a Visa but this was a cash withdrawal at an ATM so had to plug in the pin. I was drunk for most of my time there so I probably missed a pretty obvious and janky skimmer setup.

I fell victim to this in Brazil years back. In retrospect, a hotel employee warned me to “try to rip off the keypad and other parts of the ATM” before swiping to make sure there wasn’t a device installed, but my rudimentary Portuguese didn’t help me out. Lesson learned.

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So they’re issuing a virtually no-cost recall purely out of “concern”; wouldn’t have anything to do with the good PR that’s followed. I’m no Tesla hater but I’m still waiting for them to act similarly on an issue that will eat into their profit margin before awarding them the Automotive Moral Superiority trophy.

The Driven “race through Chicago in F1 cars” scene is a pretty fantastic compilation of blunders.

Cool also because when you inevitably pull up to the far more ubiquitous Vantage you can mock the driver mercilessly.

The federal and state incentives are out of control, particularly in places like CA where you can basically knock a cool $10k off your new electric car price (not so crazy for a six-figure Tesla but that’s an insane discount on a $30k Leaf). It’s the kind of price slashing you expect from companies mired in scandal…

Agreed, more about the press release and subsequent discussion than actual performance.

Maybe if you had worked a little harder (Seinfeld)

All about those massing seats

Responses so far seem to assign a negative connotation to the word “ridiculous.” I’ll go the opposite route: the Volvo XC90 spider web design in the rear storage compartment is pretty ridiculous in the sense that it’s completely unnecessary; doesn’t make it any less cool or fun though.

Just spent way too much time reading that whole forum thread. Fascinating, though.

I’ve always paid attention to CGT prices as well, and assumed the recent price spike was connected (in some weird way) to Paul Walker’s death.

I’d be all over that Crock Pot if I didn’t have such awful experiences with the WeMo app. Since no slow cooker (that I know of) has a delayed start feature, I’ve been eyeing this for a while. But since there’s maybe a 50-50 chance that my Belkin wifi outlet will respond to the app on any given attempt, I’m not…

I’d be all over that Crock Pot if I didn’t have such awful experiences with the WeMo app. Since no slow cooker (that…

PFTCommenter is funny because he’s good at this sort of thing; you’re not.

Dead on accurate. Looking even more broadly at the most egregious emitters of carbon emissions, buildings blow cars out of the water, despite conventional wisdom. It’s definitely time to look broader, even narrowly within the auto industry, at the actual violators.