We stayed in an AirBnB a few years back that had a vintage toaster from the 50s or 60s. In addition to being a thing of aesthetic beauty, it made absolutely perfect toast....perfectly browned on both sides of the bread. I have used a lot of toasters at all sorts of price-points over my four decades on earth, but I…

Completely agree. People like features. I’m going to guess that the average customer cross-shopping a RAV4 and Rogue cares very little about driving dynamics and cares more about the size of the infotainment screen, whether there’s a sunroof, and other bells and whistles. If Nissan can beat Toyota on features at…

I think this is the right way to think about it. It’s a way for manufacturers to serve increased segments of the market. Most consumers are looking to satisfy a minimum size/utility requirement for $X per month.

I’ve always enjoyed your work in the comments section - congrats on the new gig! Looking forward to reading!

I am lmao thinking about a shag Santa toilet seat covering. And frankly, I’m a little shocked that my grandma - who LOVED cheesy Christmas decor and had every surface in her house decked out for the holidays from thanksgiving to mid-January - never got one from a Kmart blue light special.

Yeah, I think the fact that you have a lot of fully-loaded vans with driving dynamics quite different from a passenger car often being driven by rookie drivers (of that type of vehicle), late at night, rushing to or from some event....I’m sure there were inherent safety risks with the platform/design, but driver…

Even at the high end of that range, it means he’s made what — $625? — for this video? Once you calculate in production time and expenses, not to mention time spent promoting/optimizing his YouTube videos, that doesn’t seem like that great of a return. Not to mention that you can’t go to a Bugatti dealership every…

It seems like the guy may not be completely SOL. Just out of curiosity, I looked at 2019 Silverados. Lightly used, they seem to be running in the $35k-40k range at dealers (of course, hard to do a good comp here without knowing exact options, etc.)

My grandparents had a toilet seat with a wooden lid (which my grandma kept covered with a shag cover, matched to the shag rugs on the bathroom floor) and a padded seat. (This was in the 80s.)

I don’t know how far underwater truck dude may be, but an option would be to get a personal loan from his credit union to cover the gap. At this point, he’s paying nearly 1000/month on this truck. Sell it to carvana/carmax and then apply as much of that $1000 as you can afford each month to pay off the personal loan.…

Agreed. Frankly, for this specific situation, I think they’d be best off keeping the HHR. A nine-year-old mainstream car from the modern era with only 50k miles should have years of reliable service ahead of it, so long as it’s cared for. (That said, I’m not familiar with the HHRs to know if they have some major…

Fantastic find!

It’s like those electric cars for kids, but instead of a hideously unsafe design prone to unprotected rollovers, you have a full cab to protect you. What could possibly go wrong?

This looks like one of those “luxury” cars being sold by a bottom-feeding dealer who buys up crap, gets it detailed and then sells it on a shitty loan to some sucker who wants a brand name. That’s the last person you want to buy a car like this - where whether it will bankrupt you depends almost entirely on how well…

Interesting! Guess that’s not an expensive fix if you have the welding skill/equipment to do it yourself. 

That’s my concern. The underbody work is a big undertaking. I suspect that the paint is a respray hiding who knows what, because I find it hard to believe that the floor pans could be rusted so badly as to need replacement while the rockers are untouched. Add to that a variety of issues that are individually easy to…

A lot of great thoughts here.

So I had never heard of this concept, but your comment inspired me to do some googling. Really interesting stuff. 

This is a test to see how many trolls vote. Because when I voted, 5.5% had picked NP. So either 5.5% of voters can’t read, or they are pure troll votes. Because if there was ever a candidate that deserved 0 NP votes, it’s.....whatever....<gestures> THIS.....is. 

This is a great suggestion!