I agree regarding Snokes death. If he was just a tool to show Kylo Ren letting go or being unpredictable, they definitely didn’t makenif have the impact it should have. Now I just have to wait for the inevitable book or comic series to delve deeper into that character.

My wife was the same way, until I pointed out that you could tell by the feet. Ren moved his foot when igniting the saber and the camera focused on it as the salt moved to show the red ground. Luke didn’t get as much of a close up on the feet, but he didn’t move any salt. For everyone talking about the movie being…

Agreed. As someone who bought/received every new Nintendo system for Christmas from SNES to the GameCube, I couldn’t bring myself to get a Wii or WiiU. I only got a 3DS to play Ocarina of Time when I was out of town on work trips. I finally bought a Switch when the second round became available on Amazon back in June…

A big problem I run into in my area is guys with aftermarket “HID” lights or lifted trucks; they either don’t aim the lamps or can’t, so I’m just blinded. I wish headlamp aiming would become part of our yearly state inspections, but too many Bubbas would throw a hissy fit.

I sold my 2013 FR-S to Carmax back in 2015 when I got a company car and moved to Chicago. I had roughly 29k miles on it and was offered over $17k for it. Considering that it looks like a well done modification and the miles on it are well below average, I’d be all over this if I was still in a sports car phase.…

I remember my 89 Si, I would have to order the 32 Oz drinks at Taco Bell since I could wedge the bottom of the cup between my seat bolster and brake handle. How I miss high school now, I was living the life and pumped full of Baja Blast!

They do depreciate fairly quickly, but I feel your example was mostly due to the high mileage in such a short amount of time. I sold my 2013 FR-S to Carmax back in November 2015 for $17k and only had 29000 miles on it. $7k of depreciation over 2.5 years had more to do with relatively low mileage than it being a super…

She’s only got 3 paws and is the devil, but she’s a good dog!

My wife and I moved to Chicago when she attended Northwestern for med school in 2015. We just moved back to coastal Virginia earlier this year for her residency and to be close to family, but we seriously considered staying in Chicago for a few more years for many of the reasons you listed above. I couldn’t be a…

I’ve had the same issue, but the difference was single vs married. I’ve bought 3 new cars since I started dating my wife. The first two she was just my girlfriend and I felt like I wasn’t taken seriously even though I was a early to mid 20s college graduate with a good, stable job. Fast forward to this year, I’m 27…

I know he’s basically saying “Our customers want what we’re offering now and we make a ton of money doing it, so no need to waste profits on autonomous R&D”... but I wish it was more a statement on the future like in Minority Report with the Lexus. The team who designed that car basically said, in the future the…

Every manufacturer has a pretty bad version of “perfect” and customer expectations are almost always higher than the factory. I work for an insurance company and I cannot tell you how many times people complain about rattles, or bodylines not matching up after their car was fixed. Thankfully I’m at a dealership body…

Not my photo, but a 2004 Z71 Suburban was my “learn to drive in” car. This was in 2005, I was supposed to get a hand me down 1999 Silverado LS that my dad would take back occasionally for towing, but my mom wanted out of her Impala as soon as the payments were done.

My 30th is coming up soon(ish) and I’m trying to convince my wife to let me get a decent C4 or Trans Am from the mid 90s to sit in the garage as a project until I inevitably sell it as soon as it runs for more than a few miles without giving up...

Maybe now shops will start spending the $500 a year for AllData instead of relying on having one technician being an “ICAR expert”. I’ve been to many shops where I had to point out to a tech they weren’t following OEM procedure, like one who wanted to bond a rear body into a 4Runner that was meant designed to be…

Or it would do nothing. It would probably stay in drive until you moved the shift to the proper position, or more likely only allow the change to be made when the vehicle isn’t in motion.

If they would make this, with a more attractive front end, I’d buy it. I bought a 2013 FR-S brand new, but life came along and I had to sell it so a company car could take its place in the parking garage when I lived in Chicago. Now I’m back in the suburbs on the east coast, I would definitely buy this over another…

I saw this a few years ago on a rural highway in Virginia. Probably a mid/late 90s S-10, the cab came off in the accident and the driver was ejected. That was fun sitting around for hours dealing with state police since the accident involved a fatality and I had witnessed it. I got up closer to the truck and there…

This car sounds exactly like what my fiancé wants in her next vehicle. Something bigger than her Civic, but not a crossover. Something sporty looking, but with the creature comforts she likes from my moms SRX. She’s firmly in the Honda/Toyota buyers demo for the perceived reliability, and the Accord looks too “momish”…

In Texas, we based it on how far up the water went inside. If water went up to dash level or was salt water inside the cabin, it is an Obvious Total Loss. Texas makes floods easy, the cars also get “parts only titles” so it’s all easy.