Oh sure, I mean, if you can get the terms and everything all ironed out, it can be a really great thing. My mother pretty much exclusively leases Mercedes (Mercedeses? Is there a way to pluralize that...?) on a 3 year term, and it’s great for her. I just have a sneaking little suspicion that the types of people who…

As a Thunder fan, THIS TIMES 1000. That picture you chose is, like, the worst one I’ve ever seen of him and he still looks like a god. It almost hurts to look at him and Keri Hilson together - there is too much beautiful in one place.

“Got a quarter tank of gas in my new E-class, but that’s alright cause I’m gon’ ride.”

Leases aren’t a feasible option for as many people as you think. The ones you see advertised for somthing like “$199 a month for 36 months!” are generally base model, low mileage leases (10k a year) and a lot of people drive more than that. BESIDES the fact that you generally need good to very good credit and a…

That doesn’t mean that the buying cycle is 7 years. There are PLENTY of people who trade in their cars in 3-4 years, and if that happens twice, that puts us at the 6.5 year old average trade-in value. I work in a car dealership, and I would definitely say that the buying cycle is three to five years at the most. (and…

Well, I don't know that I would go that far, as far as getting them an S-class, lol! Honestly, I went to a private school where most parents could afford to get their kids pretty much anything, and yeah, there were a couple of luxury cars, but most kids had about what I had, a late-model, safe, nice looking car in the…

Um... I’m not sure there is. There are always going to be idiot drivers out there, and our best protection against them is defensive driving. Stay away from them if we can, and pay attention to what everyone else on the road is doing, because even if an accident is one person’s fault, most are avoidable if the person…

I am very very very good about non-distracted driving now. But yeah, I agree, I think I can credit driving a stick for generally being a good driver. Since I had had limited experience driving before that (my mother had a 94 Ford Probe that was just an extra car that I shared with my grandmother before that), it…

The second one was pretty much my first car, except it was an LX (so, cloth) and white. Was a fabulously reliable car, the only thing I ever fixed on it was the brake-light switch. Oh, and the cruise control stopped working at some point. Big deal.

I agree with you! My first car cost about $15k, but my mom could afford it, and it was safe and not fast... I don’t see the problem with that if it’s still affordable, at all. Honestly, if I had a kid, I would get them the safest, newest car I could. It turned into a good investment too, since I owned it for eleven…

HAHAHAHA. I had a manual from the time I was 16 until 27 (same car) and believe me, it took me about six months to learn how to do TONS of stuff while driving. Texting? ABSOLUTELY. Putting on makeup? Sure! Eating? You betcha. To be fair, when I was a teenager, we still had Nokia bar phones and I was a total champ at…

This is a good answer. My best friend had a 1990 and then a 1992, and those things were TANKS.

My first car was a 2000 Honda Accord 4-cyl coupe with a manual. And I loved it so. Drove it for 11 years, it had almost 200k on it when hail took the poor girl out. I thought I was ready for another car, but it’s been 3 years and I want my Accord back!

Yeah, well, that wasn’t the question. You can argue that speed limits are too low (which they are) but driving unsafely is also a problem. People are going to speed. I never claimed that was ok, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Really you could say: which is more unsafe? I would make the argument that…

Don't be fucking obtuse. You know what I'm trying to say.

I think if you only have one, you’re all good! Sedan away! Or maybe a station wagon...

I think you may be underestimating just how much shit you have to tote around with you when you have children. Their friends, snacks, those fucking carseats/boosters, maybe strollers if they’re young, and so on. So then your choices become either a minivan, a crossover, or an SUV. Not only are crossovers ugly as sin,…

Well, yeah, that just goes right along with people’s entitlement complexes. You’re definitely not wrong. (Also, not to be that person... but it’s “beeline” not “b-line.”)

This makes me HOWL WITH RAGE. I am an unpleasant person to drive with when people pull shit like that.

Surely you cannot be serious. This is a problem that people do shit like this. It’s fucking unsafe to pass people on the right, jackwagon.