How does Airbnb protect you from someone stealing your grandmother’s China? I honestly don’t know, it’s a good idea, but there must be some insurance program if Airbnb, VRBO, etc. can all do it successfully.

...because many buyers still have antiquated associations with wagons as big, boring family cars—the proto-minvans...

I think the case you’re trying to make is don’t take a high-interest, high-value and long-term loan to pay for a used car. I’m stuck in that pickle now and after about two years I’ve finally gotten my loan amount below my car’s value, by making monthly payments 30% higher than necessary. My car is an ‘07, so the hard…

Right. If you have the cash now, invest it and take the low-interest loan. Especially if you’re buying new and can secure a 0% loan. Even if you took half your cash (say $5k) and put it in a 2-year bond, you’d make about $200. Use the other half to pay for the first 2 years of your car payments.

You’re forgetting the first rule of Oppo meets

Pretty sure Musk’s ‘flamethrower’ is just one of those fed through a reinforced supersoaker body and attached to a camping sized propane bottle. You could make one for less than $50

I think you can just say “Hey Urus!” and then tell it what you want it to do.

The HOV lane, while great during rush hour, is a hindrance during off-hours. Prius and Leaf drivers have no idea it’s just the fast lane from 9 AM to 3 PM and on weekends. And everybody else in the second to left lane drives slow, because they’re not actually in the far left lane, so there’s no reason to hurry.

It’s nice of people to pee in jugs instead of, you know, just peeing in the gravel/dirt. I’m with you though - every Pick-N-Pull in every state I’ve been to has pee jugs somewhere. Veteran junkyard puller checklist: Sockets, mallet, pee jug.

I can’t wait for people to start realizing how easy it is to upgrade 4-cylinder turbo’s. $2k for a bigger, colder intake, FMIC and upgraded exhaust on an Accord? Hell yeah

Horizon offers one complimentary drink on all their flights, which are generally short and shitty because they exclusively fly turbo prop Bombardier Q400's. It’s kind of a joke though, because half the time it’s too bumpy for the attendants to walk the aisle.

Whatever you do, don’t accept the free Mai Tai from a Trader Joe’s bottle they offer on Alaska flights to Hawaii. It’s awful, even for free booze.

RV’s are surprisingly easy to drive. We rent a 30+ footer every year and drive it from San Francisco to SLC, then to Vegas and finally back to SF for a bike race. No accidents, although last year our muffler fell off and we ran it over, someone lost the gas cap and we broke a light fixture. As long as you remember…

Disclaimer: Not my truck, nor do I own a truck, nor would I lift my truck if I owned one.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. If you ignore per-accident statistics (which is largely unfair because a LOT of people commit suicide by train) and look at deaths per miles traveled, in the US in 2015 1.15 people died per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. In the EU in 2015, the average death rate per BILLION…

You’re forgetting that people crash their cars very, very frequently

No, it doesn’t, but Portland doesn’t salt roads and has almost no plows or gravel trucks. Also, it typically snows about an inch and then either rains or warms and re-freezes, which creates a lot of ice. If it just kept snowing we wouldn’t have problems. It’s also practice - people in Oregon are absolutely awful at…

Yes, I don’t follow him on Twitter so I was unaware of that. Looks fantastic.

I’m hoping rally conversions on street cars (a la 911 Safari) becomes the next crazy. I’m currently debating throwing smaller rally wheels with big tires on my MS3 and lifting it an inch. Would be a seriously fun mountain car.

Only to David Tracy can moving a car INTO the garage and removing the hood be considered huge upgrades. That’s Step 1 for 100% of us that own an (unoccupied) garage.