I really think you are right that character has something to do with it. For the non-enthusiast, most cars are just appliances. There may be some nostalgic component for hanging onto a car (“We bought that right after we got married” or “Remember when they boys were in car seats in that car?”) but if the car is an…

1. You need to change the oil more than once in three years of vehicle ownership.

I guess if the goal was to ruin a perfectly good car, you are correct.

You mean “The War of Northern Aggression”.

The best is the fake convertible top that includes a sliding sun roof.

Best skit ever about those stickers:

I think this goes hand-in-hand with their (millennials) inexperience in actually talking to people face-to-face. As you are pointing out, a shrewd lender or car manufacturer can take advantage of this skills gap and make a killing.

I cannot agree more with your premise. Replace the word “driving” with anything else, and you can see the absurdity in offering suggestions to someone with this mindset.

My dad told me this revenge story that happened when he was young.

I get the feeling some people at Ford had to know this was going to bomb. One of the executives in the movie kept referring to Ford’s $250 million investment, which is the equivalent of over $2 billion today. They knew their asses were on the line, and this movie’s subtle message was, “You’re going to push this car,…

I would strongly suggest reading the exclusions in your auto insurance policy before renting it out to others or using it for hire, a la Uber and Lyft.

Call me old fashioned, but if I were Greg, I would be pissed that my daughter was on on Tinder and more pissed that you looked for her there.

Gotta keep ‘em fat, dumb, and voting Democrat

Yeah, that ain’t gonna happen.

Not paying a claim would be bad public policy, but adding some sort of post-accident penalty (besides a rate increase) would be a good start.

I worked at a grocery store when I was in high school. One busy Saturday, I was outside gathering grocery carts when two of the “popular” girls from school pulled into a handicapped spot that was right up against the building. Trixie #1 runs into the store and leaves the car running. I tell Trixie #2 that they are…

Interesting car, but those steering-wheel condoms always freak me out a bit.

“It seems like just a few years ago (because it was, actually) that General Motors was attempting to push the Chevrolet brand in Europe in addition to Vauxhall and Opel as part of its efforts to own every market on Earth.”

Economic conditions will have a huge effect on the death toll. The following chart shows historical gasoline prices, with green line in “constant” 2015 prices. The price for gas in 2007-2008 was almost exactly the same as the current price, so not surprising the death toll is about the same, too.

Not this one: