The very fact that he tells people to pay off debt in order of size rather than interest rate was my first clue that he’s an idiot that has motives other than increasing financial literacy. His foundational “technique” ignores financial realities.

Then why do the wagons command a significant price premium as compared to BMW sedans of the same series/engine/era? 

Yup...lots of people in the gray BIG MAD because their guru is getting lit up. 

Great point. It’s pretty wild to look at the economic system that the Israelites were commanded to follow and compare it to the economic system that most of American Christianity seems to support. 

I was wondering the same thing. Slapping on a bunch of bulbous aftermarket panels seems like a good way to distract from larger issues (bent/twisted frame, for example).

Exactly. It’s a shame someone took a perfectly good car and had to stupid it up in so many ways.

Ramsey tries to impart some kind of Christian moralism in how people manage their finances (which basically amounts to “debt: evil”, I guess because hedonists might enjoy their lives too much rather than living lives of holy asceticism or something). As soon as you start letting biases like that inform your “system,”…

Would be ironic if the whole “pedo guy” thing turned out to be a world class case of projection.

This seems like the right analysis to me. This idea of “big expensive service built on ‘content’ served up by celebrities of questionable relevance” is almost always a path to lighting large piles of money on fire. AppleTV seems similar to me. There just aren’t enough people in the world who will shell out a monthly…

Elon is connected to Epstein? I didn’t realize that. Honestly a bit surprised Jalopnik hasn’t covered it more if that’s the case. 

Great points, particularly the market strength of Ford trucks. I just looked it up because I don’t follow these things on a granular level...Ford could cannibalize 30% of F Series sales with the Bronco and still the number one pickup truck and outsell Wrangler by 15%. Again, Ford wouldn’t have to convert a single…

Exactly. Most Jeep sales come from people who are buying a lifestyle accessory — which is the case for most car sales. As long as the Bronco looks cool, is priced competitively and has good enough technical specs that buyers aren’t afraid of losing a pissing match in a bar to a Jeep bro, they’ll sell to much of the…

Yeah, completely agree. This is a nice car, and the brown interior is really nice. I’m ok with the engine swap (but not wild about it) because it’s not like the e cars were ever anything to write home about performance wise. But this is just a lot of money for this combination of parts.

I could see it just because the variety of really prime old cars that is available in California is just worlds better than what you can get in the Midwest. So if someone can basically show that they bought it out west to resell, I’d be ok with that...but I would want some explanation. 

Completely agree. We knew he was a horrid racist grifter by the end of 2015 (and his obvious and public racism has been on display since the 80s at least, for those paying attention). By the time of the 2016 election, we knew that there were multiple credible sexual assault allegations against him, that he was very…

Yes, really a reasonable price. I too was expecting something well into the 100ks as a starting price. 

Agreed. And unlike the 911 or M3, people generally just bought these and used them. So over the three decades since trucks in this generation were new, they get beat up. As others have pointed out, rust is a big problem in northern climates, because a truck like this would be driven rain, snow or sleet.

Seems like it s a NP but only if you have the capacity and desire to do a bunch of work (and sink a bunch of money into the project). In that case, you might be able to make some money, as long as you don’t put a high value on your time.

$325k puts you in range of some truly spectacular cars. Cars that, for whatever other warts they may have, do not feature the ugliest parts from the Ford parts bin directly in front of your face. 

“What’s that tree limb rated to hold? Oh, it doesn’t have a rating? Because it’s a goddamn tree limb?”