Yep. The automatic was so, so laggy that I almost got squished by many a truck, turning out of my office complex. 

Dude. I couldn’t live 14 MONTHS as a B5.5 Passat owner (I think I went ten)...idk how you went 14 years unless the first 13 were uneventful. I mean, repairs are whatever, but when I put my foot to the floor and the car didn’t accelerate until 15 seconds later...that was a no go (no pun intended). It was the first car…

I mean...that’s a pretty terrible situation when you think about it. The employees have to be present and monitored in order to not misbehave on the clock?  Says a lot about the dealership model in general right there. 

I live near Reading and there were SO MANY cars and people going to today’s rally. Mostly younger people, which horrifies me doubly for some reason. It makes me sad that our local community is likely going to see an uptick due to a pointless rally and then combined with those people going to vote in person on Tuesday. 

I would rather be taken to the grave in a wagon than one of these:

Is it possible to disagree with both parties on this?

You’re probably right, though he said he didn’t like the Sienna. Wish he would have explained why. 

Remote start and code the car to start with the passenger seat heater on. Problem solved!

There’s two different steering wheel options?  The first one is very attractive, the second looks like the rest of the lineup and weirds me out. 

Is the alternator larger than the engine?!

Could you imagine be a 56(!!!!) year old, dating someone almost 30(!!!!!!) years your junior, and being the “young guy” in her love life? Good god the pretty people are not like us.

Congrats on full authorship! I’m pumped to read more of your writing. I didn’t even realize who the author was until I got to the end, but the whole time I was thinking, “huh, this is so well written and way more interesting than most of the stuff they post”... Great job!

I did the math!

Those wear items are covered, yes. 

It’s probably like a lease, you just pay tax on the payments.

It depends on where you live. I’m near Philly, auto insurance is $5-600 for an additional car, per six months. And this is with no accidents, all sorts of discounts, etc.

I’m a fan of blind spot monitoring (which usually comes with rear traffic alert/braking) and maybe front auto emergency braking. Radar cruise and LKA are more annoying than anything. LKA on a twisty non-highway road drives me nuts.  

I’ve driven an Outback that yells at you constantly to pay attention, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE, if it’s not happy where your eyes are pointed. Annoying as heck. If you want me to pay attention to the road, fewer beeps and lights and vibrations please. 

Holy shit and congrats! Very well deserved to be a front page author. Your technical articles are the best. I’m very excited to read your stuff!

But they’re not. Debt is debt, be it bonds or private notes. The schools have gone into some type of debt to build / furnish capital expenditures and need student dollars to pay this debt. Whether it is “tuition” or room & board or fees is immaterial - they need revenue, especially in the face of decreased state…