A flop? More like an instant cult classic. 3 year old models are retaining over 80% of their value. How many other vehicles can you say that about? So I won’t agree with you that it was a flop, but I will say that it didn’t sell in high numbers. Basically, what ‘yota did was prove that there is no room in the market…

During ‘06 an Elise was just barely beyond what I was willing to pay. I could find higher-mileage ones (around 20-30k miles) with clear titles in the low-20'... high-teens for a rebuilt. And honestly, at the time I felt that higher mileage ones were probably a better bet because they were less likely to have been used…

No, I don’t mean that you accept the first OTD you get. You simply say, “thank you.” And then go to another dealer and ask if they’ll beat it. You’re not going to beat a large dealer by reading the fine print (maybe a mom and pop place). You’ll beat them by asking their best orice and shopping them. Too many people…

I don’t think normal people think that way. I work at a place that puts out deals like that. Maybe 1 person out of 50 wants to argue that your deal says they get more than it says they get (I won’t buy a car unless I get the $3,000 off AND the 0%APR) The other 49 are smart enough to know they can’t negotiate like that…

Yes. Costs went up. But restore an InsCo’s right to deny someone with a pre-existing condition (even if they’ve faithfully been paying premiums for years). Allow the companies to drop customers who are too expensive due to getting old. Experience the joy of seeing a 5-figure monthly premium, where a small-business…

That’s why I voted for Sanders. It’s not that I agreed with all that he said, but the fact that he wanted to provide free education, the type of program that would ensure someone like Trump would never be elected to office.

What if instead of stripping his car before his buyback date and talking about how clever he was all over the internet, the guy simply drove to his appointment and said, “Yeah. I bought this car to drag race it so I removed every ounce that I could.

The fact that you think there is fine print in a settlement agreement tells me you don’t understand much about contracts. If you were to read a EULA, or a consumer credit agreement and find a loop hole, you would win your case. You weren’t a party to drafting that agreement so any reasonable good-faith interpretation…

You didn’t read the article, did you.

You’re mostly right about that. Thats the reason I always pause before pulling, or applauding, a prank and ask myself whether it is properly aimed at the deserving individual. Of course, those people are typically heavily- protected from the (m)asses so it is rare that a prank truly succeeds in inconveniencing the…

Not the nomex gloves, but I do bring my helmet to the track. I mean, it’d be dumb to strap it onto the side of my motorcycle and leave it unattended just to go and use a rental helmet with gods-know-what buggies hopping around inside.

I think of it as being like any traditional car. Gets 25 city, 30 hwy and 9 on the track. Vs the elextric car that goes 0-60 in 2.x seconds for a total of 20 miles and then needs to be recharged. What’s cool is that it can do it. But the reality is that it’ll rarely be used.

Pnadering is unsafe... at any speed.

Do they like the dealership experience? Of course not! They buy a car and 5 weeks later, the incentives change and they see a (likely sketchy and borderline bogus) ad for an identical car 300 miles away for $1000 less and they feel that the sheisty salesman ripped them off and pulled something over on them, nevermind…

I’ve done it. Was driving about 30 minutes, From one heated garage to another. Put the top down at the start, left it down to heat up at the destination. FWIW, I’ve also ridden my motorcycle down to -10F and found myself giggling (when the wind chill didn’t hit my skin and feel like getting stabbed with an icicle).…

I don’t understand. Why would it be a safety issue to be able to force open a sunroof? Most cars don’t even have sunroofs, so how would not being able to open one be a safety item?

Notwithstanding the guy suggesting a 99 Nissan Maxima, I would like to humbly suggest a Cadillac Allante. Ok, so it’s not really old, but it has modern conveniences, has a body by Pininfarina, is old enough now to have been forgotten by many motorists, and was both a striking vehicle in day, while also possessing a…

Honestly, you can’t choose a classic car. It must choose you. I highly recommend these ladies go to a Mecum auction and see what speaks to them. I’m sure there’s some fellow gearhead around Jalopnik who’d go with them to point out some pluses and minuses of particular vehicles.

I’ve encouraged black friends to get conceal carry licenses, women to study martial arts, Muslims to become citizens. Not just saying “yeah do it!” but actually helping them take the steps. I’ve defended those things as being rational and appropriate. I don’t condone the behaviors that make such actions necessary or…

I don’t think feminists are evil. I don’t think brown people or the lgbtq community or muslims are doing anything wrong. It’s fine. We’re all doing what we feel is best in life, right? Even neo- Nazis are doing that... what they feel is right (however misguided it may be). And rational people recognize that everyone…