“motivated seller”

Maybe one time, sure, but they haven’t made Dodge Omnis or Chevy Luminas for a long time.

The double verification system is conceptually similar to the two-factor authentication you may use for your email security or your OnlyFans content-provider account.

I understand that unloading cranes aren’t a trivial thing, but there’s no way to partially unload it? No ship with a crane on it?

Some people have real trouble with dropping the kids off at the pool (so to speak). Don’t be the guy who mopes when other people talk about things that don’t interest you personally.

Massage the muscles on the back of your neck. I was going to name this reflex after myself for discovering it, but a MD student friend looked it up to prove it isn’t real and discovered instead that it exists and already has a name! I don’t remember the name, and it’s not easy to google, so I guess you’ll have to try…

If you talk about who RUNS the state, Texas is redder than beet juice. Maybe some day in the future its gradual purpling will show up in state government but we’re not there yet. 

If I ran PR at CIG, I would make it priority #1 to get any Texas employees to put up happy emails by any means necessary.  You can’t control what any of them say discreetly to the media, but you absolutely can make a list of people who won’t “refute” the article in public and levy penalties appropriately. 

One of those assboxes killed my ‘14 Civic Si, and I’m not ready to forgive them yet. 

This happened to me! The salesperson outright lied to me about a car that I picked out from inventory listed on the dealer website. In my case he *really* wanted to sell me a particular used car, and I had to physically park the ‘12 Focus ST, get out and point at the specific ‘20 Fiesta ST I wanted to get him to admit…

In summary. 

“Sorry honey, no one bought it”

I wanted to buy a specific new Fiesta ST that was listed on the dealership’s website. The sales guy REALLY wanted to sell me an eight year old Focus ST. Why? Who knows. Someone must have leaned on him hard to get rid of it.

Nah. SUVs became a thing in 1992 when grunge and flannel and pants with cargo pockets & hammer loops replaced docksiders with slacks and a polo shirt with a popped collar. Parking lots for the petit-bouge went almost overnight from BMW convertibles and Merc wagons to Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and Range Rovers…

That’s an interesting question. I feel like my Fiesta ST and my Skagen classic design watch both express ‘me’ very well. Both are outwardly unremarkable and don’t cost (much) more than the average product. They don’t do anything fancier than drive good and tell the time. But at the same time they’re deceptively…

Every auto mechanic involuntarily salivated while reading this.  Tell me I’m wrong.  

I have two responses to this. One, this mod is obviously, wildly, unnecessary (Foresters can already handle most things outside of rock crawling at Moab) and probably counterproductive.

Alltrack. It looks good, it eats dirt trails for lunch, all your stuff goes in it, you can probably fit it in your budget, you already know how to maintain a VW, and very few people bought them.

They’re cheap and as accurate as a handgun, but their round has a lot more energy than a M4/AR-15 has.

I think I bought our Alltrack from the same dealer in New Jersey! It was by far the least flashy vehicle on their lot, and they had such an interesting time with the title that I’m tempted to have someone check the car’s hollow spaces for cocaine. Those were some shady dudes. But it’s a manual and the price screamed…