Fuck that. She's awesome. What I hate most is that this story doesn't surprise me.

THANK YOU for saying they are NOT investments!

Very solid rebuttal. I think the answer to the main question is to do what fits your lifestyle and your budget best. If you want a disposable vehicle that you can turn and burn in a year and want something "new" regularly, used is the obvious choice, and gives you a massive sea of options to choose from. If you just…

Right, because biking to your job in the rain, the snow, or the sub-zero temperatures is always super-easy, on roads that are filled with polite motorists who will eagerly share the road with you.

Kanye is getting a little portly. You can tell marriage agrees with him. :-)

I'm a Washington native and a life-long relatively die hard Washington fan, and these people are the dumbest of the fucking dumbest. There is an odd, nostalgic part of me that will feel the loss of something from my childhood (when I was a kid, I thought the name had to do with the color of the football, actually),…

As well they should.

Yeah but everything inside would probably get cooked like a baked potato. Gotta decide how much you want it.

No, that's what I was just trying to tell this other guy in another post. It IS theirs, as long as they titled it to themselves when they bought it - otherwise, it belongs to whoever it's titled to. The bank owns the note (but not the car) and the car is put up as collateral. They have a right to possess…

What makes you think these are Mercedes? How do you know these are not very modest cars? And why doesn't it matter that the person didn't know there is a disabler in the car? Don't you think you should be informed if someone is going to keep a means to control your property? And why do you think there's a charity…

Read a law book. Not all contracts are legal. Now, can someone other than this guy tell me how the fuck this is legal. Yes, I am aware the courts have largely been silent on this. Note that I fully get tracking the car, and also I don't care if a rental company does this. I am talking about disabling the car you…

Most of this country does not have adequate public transportation, making vehicle ownership somewhat of a necessity. Unfortunately, that necessity is to get to and from a job that may not pay a living wage, and to transport the kids to child-care that costs an unreasonable amount of money, and to purchase basic goods…

There's some straight up heartless bastards here on Jalopnik. You have to provide for your family, you're poor so you have to get a job, you have to have a car to get a job (at least anywhere not densely populated enough to support public transit, so you have to fall victim to predatory lenders who know your…

It's never that simple or it would never happen. It's no different than walking by a homeless person and saying get a job.

For some this really just isn't possible.

So many conflicting emotions here. Happiness that she's feeling great in her body. Sadness if she wasn't before. Anger that it was the tabloids (and the public) that made her feel less than beautiful.

I don't know, dude. You seem pretty mad about something.

You eat depreciation costs every time you buy a car, new or used, cash or otherwise.