Maybe consider taking the jump? The water’s been warm, at least for me personally. I absolutely love my 06 GTI. It’s been with me since it was three years old and had 14k miles. Just rolled 84k and it has been DEAD reliable. No breakdowns, no coolant or oil leaks, nothing electrical, never has needed to be towed, and…

Deserves so many more stars.

The correct answer, as always, is GTI.

I completely gutted and rebuilt 2 foreclosures with a total of 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms using nothing but my GTI. Well... Did have appliances and countertops delivered and I rented a uhaul for the boxes of floors. But still. There was never a moment of despair during the project where I had wished I owned a bigger…

😑 I super don’t understand the fetishization of “reliability” over all else. Do people get a little rush slipping into their car, gripping their hands on their steering wheel and self-gratifyingly thinking to themselves “oh my god this car is gonna be so RELIABLE today!!”?

The new hotness, CL scam-wise, is these guys pulling rental property listings off Zillow, hotpads, etc. and collating that with publicly available property records to generate really legit looking CL ads. I’m a landlord; this lady in the middle of being scammed finds my phone number off one of my actual ads and calls…

Like it or not- RIGHT NOW there’s a moneyed Jalopnik tourist wannabe with no idea what he’s doing who thinks this is his ideal first project.

What’s so mind boggling about that perspective is that a border tax would completely gift domestic manufacturers enormous room to raise their own prices. If I’m building a car in Indiana, to sell to people in Indiana, and all my imported competitors are all suddenly 20% more expensive, I’m instantly raising my price…

Oh the glorious memory of grandma’s Parliament-scented kinda-tan 1990 Mercury Cougar with the automatic seat belts. 

A 20% Mexico tax would seem to cause some really strange ripple effects in our market. Let’s pull the thread a bit on this. A base Jetta (¡Mexico Yo!) suddenly comes within about a thousand dollars of an untaxed Chattanooga-built base Passat. Actually just about every manufacturer of Mexican-assembled US market cars…