They tend to think there’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing though. No drug stronger than denial.

It happens. I used to work with a handful of people just like this. One bedroom apartment - or a two bedroom with a roommate - and a Audi/BMW/Mercedes with a $900-1200/mo. car payment.

Spending money on something that’s only going to lose value over time vs. something that can increase in value over time is what I was criticizing. You’d recognize that if you knew how money works.

Illinois.

Knowing how to finance yourself into a corner isn’t ‘knowing how money works’.

Who’s buying them? People who don’t know how money works AND are more interested in impressing others.

There’s an apartment complex about a mile from my house - FIVE Raptors in the parking lot. They’re there every day when I leave at o’dark thirty in the morning. I chuckle nearly every day because they have to have…

Or “Welcome to 2013 in Illinois”:

There’s a suburb of Chicago that has a Dodge Magnum with regular plates and it just cruises up and down the main street pulling people over. Same PD has Chrysler Town and Country minivans, F150 pick up trucks, and some other oddball unmarked/regular plate cars with full LED light treatments.

Depends on the specific city/village but most in Northern Illinois are way too lenient for it to matter long term. A dude with that many Pep Boys accessories on a car isn’t likely to file a claim for insurance - just go back to Pep Boys and replace the broken shit...

So much for wondering what a Colorado with the ass end of a Camaro on it would look like...

I see a mashup of Focus and WRX in this car...and a lot of Accord in the front end. It’s trying too hard to be ‘different’ - that’s when it becomes ugly...like the Chris Bangle BMWs.

GM should focus on making their trucks more visually appealing...paint it forest green and it looks like a constipated Incredible Hulk trying to force an unwilling shit.

You want to go back and relive the slow rise from a severe recession where only the ‘already rich’ gained more wealth and the majority of people experienced very little sustained economic growth?

People wouldn’t buy the more expensive small cars - which is the real issue Ford is attempting to address. Moving production of small/barely profitable (in comparison to trucks/SUVs) products to a country with lower cost of living expenses makes sense from a business perspective.

Americans have gotten used to ‘made in…

“...has increased 74.5 percent to 87 percent between 2006 and 2013.”

A friend of mine, when buying a new Supra, wound up leaving a dealership that didn’t take her seriously, going to the next one - buying the car and returning to the first dealership with the car - specifically to show them how ‘being a judgmental herd of morons’ kept them from making a sale. She then laid rubber in…

Last Wednesday, I watched a 20 something in a Mini cut off the guy in front of me right after the light turned green. Mini guy was in the right lane and decided, 8 car lengths from the intersection, that he HAD to turn left. Light turned green, Mini guy punches it and cuts across two lanes. Little did he realize that…

It blew my mind when I was riding in a taxi in Sagamihara and the driver was watching television in the center console...and he said he was strictly prohibited from using his cell phone while in the car.

Me to my 2 year old: Watch out for the door (a closet door in the house)- keep your fingers away from the edge so you don’t smash your fingers! (because he did exactly that less than 24 hours earlier)

2 year old: Okay. I’ll be careful!

3 seconds pass, he closes the door on two fingers - looks at me in utter shock that I…

-Could have used his radio, didn’t.