Chips and the kind of disgusting ranch dip that too many people around here slather on veggies.

Because they’ll slip off the bead if breathed on by a sparrow.

And the other reason the “mini serve” states are SUPER ANNOYING: the very talented attendant inevitably bashes the nozzle into some part of your car other than the filler neck, leaving a scratch or gouge.

Wait, you drive a Range Rover, and you mentioned an Escalade, and you mentioned a **QX80** for crying out loud, and you complain the LX is gaudy?

Most younger people don’t have any net worth. I don’t have any, even though I have plenty of assets and no revolving debt, because of a truly ridiculous amount of student debt.

This is a good way to think about it. For me, it’s right around 30% per car. And I have a history of replacing cars after 5-6 years. So that’s something like 5%-6% of my salary each year.

Would go up depending on income.

There are buyers out there who care about those things but also want family utility. Not many of them, but they exist. I’m one. Right now my family car is a Forester XT. This looks to me like the most compelling replacement I’ve seen yet. Cheaper and more reliable than the six-cylinder Germans. Faster, less…

Streaming audio over bluetooth is the most overrated feature ever, unless you like audio that sounds like a phone call. The only “bluetooth” that matters is for phone calls. I’ll happily plug in a cable to get reasonable audio quality.

That $40K MSRP one will go out the door for $36k within a year. I’m probably going to buy one.

Damn, there are going to be a lot of first and last dates here.

That may depend on your city of residence.

Here in Washington, where we have less salt and less rust, those plates are only for 30+ year old vehicles. They also come with restrictions on how you can operate the vehicle. You can only drive it:

Just bought an ‘08 LS460. More expensive than this one, but with way fewer miles and in better condition.

That’s not the law that matters. Instate tuition applies a different rule from most residency rules.

Again, the registration IS void in Colorado if you move out of state. Just because you have a sticker doesn’t mean the registration is valid.

I’m not located near any military facilities, and neither one of them appears remotely military (they look more like hippies), so I doubt it.

Portal axles. 130 mph.

“What if you found out you had to move right after shelling out 700bucks for yearly registration?”

It’s called use tax rather than sales tax when you bring in the car from another state, but yes. Unfortunately for me Washington has one of the highest rates in the country.