The 20,000's are definitely my favorite decade.

Came here to say this.

From a a daily annoyance point of view, those awful automatic seatbelts from the 90's. I would forget about them when riding in someone else’s car and get my neck wrapped up in them all the time.

I had to look it up to see what is so exciting about the cupholder, but I was not disappointed. Those are amazing!

Cuz it beats walking?

You should indeed normally think horses instead of zebras in the US, except when Zebras have been running around Maryland lately.

What the actual F*ck.  I’m sure someone will explain how this is totally on the up-and-up or just how things work, but holy sh*t this is up there with civil forfeiture in terms of total BS.

I agree 100%. To add to your house purchase analogy, ours came with an alarm system installed. We did not choose to pay for the service, however the alarm will still function. It won’t call the alarm company, so they won’t call the police or fire department if it goes off. However, it still WORKS. I still use it and…

I would almost consider getting this, realizing that I would soon have a very expensive massage chair once the clutch wore out since I couldn’t afford to buy it and then maintain it.

Totally. I can’t get over the styling. Regardless of how well the car may drive, it just makes me think of one of those tacky 1980's kit cars.  

I like it a lot. It looks like a battle Accord. You could mount some sort of machine gun or rocket launcher where the donut on top is, the roof is already reinforced with diamond plate steel to take the load. It looks like there is a rolly office chair in the back for a tail gunner as well.

I opened this fully expecting an article about the torque dip, and I am very pleasantly surprised to see something about the oil temp issue instead.

Oh my gawd. I laughed so hard I have tears in my eyes. You are a poet deserving of laureate status.

I was reading this expecting a price that was probably in line with what these are going for, but more than I personally would want to pay. To my surprise, this is exactly how much I would want to pay. If this was in my area, or even within a 10 hour drive, I would be trying to snag this right now.

10k people dying from anything preventable is too much, especially drunk driving. I understand the point you were trying to make comparing it to 9/11 as well, and it works well to make people emotionally connected to the issue. However, the difference between the two is that on 9/11, 2,977 people died in the terrorist…

In Jordmaniac’s defense, I made the exact same comparison. I know that they are completely different cars, but they are in the same price range and both could be daily drivers. I have two kids, but I don’t bring them with me to work, so I don’t need the extra seats in my daily driver despite our family of four.

Thank you for posting this! I had never heard of the rule of 72, so I always used those online interest calculators.  This is easy enough I should be able to do it in my head, although I will probably still whip out my trusty TI-81 for those post happy hour interest calculations.

Bwahh!?? That thing is a disaster! It is like they took the worst parts of Pimp My Ride and forgot all of the good parts. The cars from the show were horrible, but they at least got a good paint job and sometimes update upholstery. “I don’t really know how to paint a car brah, so I just used Pencils and house paint”…

I wish we could increase train ridership here in the USA as well. I think higher speed trains would increase ridership some, but increasing the number of trains run a day would probably help even more. I live in central PA near an Amtrak line, and if I want to go to Philly (which I do often) there are 10 trains that…

I have talked a lot about this with my wife lately, and I’m not sure. I think that they become less and less usable to the average person, and therefore lose value given enough time. This one has had a new engine, and it looks like it has had power steering added as well; but a stock 235 straight six in this car along…