Stories of its unreliability are overblown and mostly centered around the Quad.

Yours looks awesome. I love that color! I’ve always kicked around the idea of buying a XK8 but it’s the convertible top issue that worries me the most - can the top be altered to remove the pump and just be lifted manually?

Oh yeah, in the US it’s a huge issue still. In the backseat (especially in vans, busses, etc) it’s very common to not wear a seatbelt because it’s deemed safe enough. 

It’s west Texas. Means he got a late start on the days drinking if he was clearheaded enough to have his kid drive home at 830. 

The saddest part is just that wearing seatbelts could have likely prevented many of the fatalities. Even in the backseat, it should be automatic to buckle up every time. It’s ridiculous that this is still a conversation that needs to happen. 

They’re duplexes, which is common in the northeast. Two houses that share one wall. Cheaper than a SFH, less annoying than a townhouse cause there’s no middle section. Usually the two houses aren’t so different-looking; this neighborhood is a special late-80s/early-90s aesthetic. 

I walked to the train station once. Just once. It’s in an incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly area because of how it’s set back from the rest of the city. Hopefully they put some thought into it and tying it in with the rest of the Mt Vernon / Belvedere neighborhood.

I’m sure all of the cars are PPVs or similar police fleet vehicles; I don’t think Ford did a 250 version but I could be wrong. All of these prices are AMAZINGLY cheap. I don’t understand the outrage, guy knew he was getting a good deal with limited local resources in a small county and just didn’t jump through enough…

That’s really awesome. I went with Subaru for a variety of reasons, but Volvo has always been right up there in my mind. 

I’m just saying, the absolute bare minimum home APR was in the mid-2s. I refinanced in August of ‘20 for about 2.75% with a ton of equity and top tier credit. Up until recently, a car loan less than 2.75% wasn’t that hard to attain even with middling credit.

Surprising thing here is that a home loan can get a lower interest rate than a car loan (especially a few years ago). The best home loan rates ever got recently were, what, maybe 2% if you were a VA loan, but probably closer to 3% if you were a normal person. Just a few weeks ago I got 3% financing on a used car…

Lukewarm price with those miles. Maybe $14500 is where it should be.

150,000 miles. $17.5k. For a fifteen year old worst-version of the WRX. It has 150,000 miles. For $17.5k. I just…too stunned to speak.

Who are these people with “more energy” earlier in the day?

Anxiously waiting for the head to head with the Outback, especially in turbo-on-turbo action in the dirt and mud.

Knowing that the base Stelvio is RWD has suddenly made them a contender in my new car search. 

For such a small city, DC is a bitch to walk through. Crossing a traffic circle is like playing Frogger. This sounds like a great idea and honestly is better for security, too.

So you’re comparing a top option new model against the base of a slightly sportier model that’s essentially unchanged since the dinosaurs roamed the earth?

I imagine the Tesla brainstorming sessions are just a bunch of video game bros throwing out ideas to make the cars like what they drive in Halo. 

I can confirm that as a current GEICO customer, I recently priced around and a handful of other insurance companies were a bit cheaper for auto. I have a few other policies all together, so I didn’t switch because their Homeowners was still less expensive by a considerable margin (although my rate increased…