I agree that it doesn't necessarily have to be a brand new car, and I don't think Jack meant it strictly in that sense, either. (But who am I to say what meant.) Let's call it a "quite new but unexciting" car with a $300-400 monthly payment. I think it's very safe to say that the rate of failure, and the ease of…

What I want to see is a picture of hot dog AND soup, that's why I signed up for the internet.

Orange Recaros. Because orange and because huggy.

In my home, we only light the smaller candle, and allow its stronger concentration of wax and wick to light the larger, less densely mixed candle. Happy holidays, Torch.

This post would be a lot more powerful if you changed the references to "them, they " etc throughout it to "us, our" and the like. You are writing about a group of which you are a part, and I would think it's safe to say that everyone exhibits this behavior, to some degree, no matter how small, over their career.

Anyone else get WRX? I can live with that result.

Let me run this excellent writeup through the Jalopnik Moronically Ridiculous Headline-a-tron Creator:

You should buy a Fiesta ST. Best real world car ever, possibly best overall thing ever.

YOINKS THAT'S A BIGGUN

Car culture giants?

Yes. That line resonates with me, and a million other readers.
The problem isn't in the upkeep cost of the cars Tavarish writes up, it's in the article title comparing them to affordable econoboxes. It does not make sense. It is not sensible. Does it result in more clicks? Yes. Do some of us click through in disgust,…

A stock foxbody Mustang is plenty good unmodified.
It might benefit the most from modifications, but all that torque and the floppy unibody was a hilariously good time.

I think they moved off that format a few years ago, to try and encourage more quality, but I'm not entirely positive. Kinja sites definitely make frontpage via consistent clicks, so you could say they are incentivized for sure. But staff writers shouldn't have to resort to this.

The CarBuying articles, which often contain pretty well-reasoned content, are almost always posted with these ridiculous, clickbaity, titles. It's not that they are inaccurate, they are just stupid.

I wanted to buy a notchback Mustang or a Typhoon, because, well, nostalgia. How could those cars NOT still be awesome?
Well, they are still awesome. They are. And they have style.
But this, this was much more fun to drive. It's small, kinda ugly, kinda cheap. But who cares. It's fun.
How my mind changed: New cars cost…

You wrote a nice comparison here that was fun to read. Then you misled readers about the MPG for the ST for the sake of comedy, and it's the only thing half the commenters here can recall after reading it, myself included. I get about 28 mpg, mostly city driving in SF, in my ST. That's with a tune on it, though I…

The girlfriend has a 2012 Nissan Rogue that just had front bumper replaced due to a fender bender. So, diminished value.

1. Lay a stone path down the middle of the trailer, to avoid lawsuits and ruined shoes.
2. Construct exit at front of the trailer, with staircase.
3. Install six blacklights, three strobes, spooky ghost soundtrack.
4. Open haunted house.
5. Legitimately terrify people.
6. Profit???

It's difficult to compare your points to Tavarish's for one reason: differences in economic scales. Everything you reference is tied to the value of the "dollar" concept, while everything he discusses is measured on the "Honda Accord" scale. Want to buy four hot dogs?, that'll cost you 0.003 Honda Accords! Why buy a…

Does you havre a young beby in the house, and if so, did teh beby write this list?