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Why would they ground the aircraft immediately without any information related to the type or cause of the crash? Nobody does that. Frankly, I’m surprised that you don’t feel sorry for your Union Brothers and Sisters working for Boeing, as losing $600 billion in orders will certainly mean that thousands of good union…

Two things:

Miatas are like Corvettes. Nobody drives them. Ever. Audi TTs get sold once the owner figures out they are hot trash and by the time they get to the ninth 16 year old first-time-driver, they have right around 205,000 miles and about as much in repair costs over the total life of the car.

These engines really weren’t any noisier or harsher than the direct competition. The four-banger in my Grandma’s Sable was so loud you couldn’t have a conversation on the highway. Every Mom with a Grand Am had either this or an Iron Duke. My parents had both. I could hear the older Grand Am with the ID down the street…

When you’re moving the volume CarMax was moving, timing was everything. 90 day lot lizards went to auction at 120 days.

I think his conclusions about profit compared to other used car dealers is way off, but that’s based on my experience with the company 13 years ago. Back then we had around a 10% profit margin because of the labor time put into inspecting and refurbishing vehicles for resale. We pulled the front and rear fascia on…

I worked for CarMax about 13 years ago, and have sold 2 cars and purchased 3 cars from them since I quit. The trick is knowing how their pricing model works for both sales and purchases.

You’re comparing oranges and tangerines. A short-bed 2019 F-150 is .3 inches longer than a 2010 Ranger extended cab. Of course a 2019 Ranger crew cab is going to be longer than a regular cab, short bed F-150. The 2019 Ranger is not physically as big as any comparably equipped full-size truck made in the last 70 years.…

Just fine. There is a point where the income received exceeds the cost of production. That is called profit. When a company is able to tune the cost of labor in production to the point where they can make a profit, that means they are profitable and worth investing in. The fewer employees a company needs to produce…

Somewhere in Michigan in February, there is a decrepit Saturn waiting to fall through the ice in April.

I wish people would stop saying this. The new Ranger and Colorado/Canyon are not as big as full-size trucks were 30 years ago. Not even 40, 50, or 60 years ago. You need to go back to the early ‘40s to get close. All full-size trucks can carry a 4x8 sheet of plywood between the wheel wells in the bed. The only small…

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I’m hoping the headline was an attempt at sarcasm given the cognitive dissonance between the 1st and 2nd gear conclusions today.

Because being a minister owning a ferrari is about as far from what Jesus seemed to be trying to do as you can get without killing people.

You can probably part it out and get your $500 back sooner than it would take to dump $3,000 into rebuilding the engine and trans enough to trailer it out to Moab. But some men just want to watch the world (and their checking account) burn.

Because it is there.

Dale Sr. was well-aware of the HANS device and flat-out refused to wear one. He was just old school like that. Car of Tomorrow, killswitches, and mandatory HANS usage all came as a result of the deaths in the 2000-2001 season across all NASCAR series. Kenny Irwin, Jr. was the only other death in the top-tier Winston…

Strangely enough, I still feel this way about the ‘92 Corsica that I bought in high school and kept until halfway through college. I drove it all over the country to college and summer internships, with no cruise control or cell phone and a Discman on the dashboard. 3.1 V6 with a 3 speed auto was a highway beast back…

Perfect? Debatable. I grew up in a loaded ‘82 CC Wagon. $25,000 in 1982 loaded. This one is barely one step up from the fleet-queen Impala trim. No bumper rub strips, corner indicators, or spoke wheels, and the gauge package is base. The original stereo is long gone. It’s a nice California car, but not the perfect…