It’s not ‘just the length of the loan’ - besides compound interest you’re also taking a car with a 3 year bumper to bumper/5 year powertrain warranty out to 7 years. So after that 5 years, you’re not only paying $550/mo for your car, but you’re also paying for any major repairs. With the 5-year loan, you can sell the…

Care by Volvo is such a f-ing ripoff. We lease a 2018 XC60 ($46k sticker) for $539/mo, and insurance is a bit over $100/mo. And Volvo is saying an S60 at the same price point is $775/mo? Hard pass.

Finally people are figuring out that it’s just a scam helping billionaires pay for their stadiums so they can charge us money to watch their events and drink beer while they and the players rake in millions in revenue.

Your model works incredibly well for someone that has a garage, doesn’t pay for parking and knows how to wrench. But if you live in NYC, SF, or some other big city, you’re going to end up paying for parking and insurance before even factoring in the cost of the car, maintenance and fuel. Someone that needs a car for…

It would have to exist for people to buy it first. This is a pipe dream - Bollinger will build like ten of each and you’ll never hear about it again. The B1 has already been delayed a year, apparently because they were designing a pickup instead of actually assembling something.

Wearing nitrile gloves changed my life. They’re a few bucks for a hundred (or free if you know someone that works in a hospital) and you just throw em away when they break, when you’re done or if your hands are just sweaty. At a few cents a pop it doesn’t even matter.

Um, yeah I’m personally not opposed to hearing the echo of my own poop. That’s pretty baller.

Oh yeah, I’m the dipshit. Keep telling people it’s OK to drive around with a headlight out, as long as they have their brights on because they’re too fucking lazy to spend three minutes and $25 replacing a non-essential part. 

Nissan messed up. Having the arrow point forward could have meant ‘forward distance remaining’ AND ‘your filler port is in the front’

You would call headlights ‘nonessential’? I would call ‘being able to see while driving at night’ pretty essential. 

You’re so very right and that makes me so sad. Because while I adore the Ridgeline, it’s so very ugly and much too large for my purposes. I’d rather just have a DD sporty sedan and an early-90s small pickup for weekend hauling duties. 

It sounds like part of the issue is constant one-upping. Everybody is trying to come out with the next huge, novel concept so they can make billions of dollars (like how all the startup EV’s keep trying to beat Tesla and failing). I wish they would just work on developing existing technology to make it better and more…

I would be f-ing shocked if they pulled that card, considering their entire marketing scheme is ‘drive this thing anywhere,’ but they have to find a hard stop somewhere or else they’ll be filling warranty requests for every single broken weld, whether it’s legit or because Joe Schmo tossed his JL off a 30' dune and…

Until FCA starts excluding people for off-roading their Jeeps, thus negating the warranty

The only thing dumber than putting your entire savings in one stock is putting your entire savings in a single call option. On a highly volatile stock. God I hope someone didn’t actually do that.

Someone that lives in my neighborhood has a Commodore. I ran past it in their driveway the other day; didn’t look close enough to see if they just re-badged a Chevy to make it more exotic (is that a thing with the SS/Commodre?). I plan to loiter around their house a lot over the next few weeks and see if I can get…

That’s because the Raptor suggested has 170k+ miles, is 8 years old (for an average of 21k per year), already on its second owner and is a luxury performance truck that the owner claims has never been driven ‘like a truck’ or ‘hard.’ I’d run for the hills from that thing, unless you’ve got an extra $10k laying around…

Yeah. We have an XC60 and I’ve noticed the same thing. It’s never centered in the lane and it brakes way too abruptly - I always think I’m going to get rear ended. Plus the emergency braking is way, way too sensitive (I turned mine down). I only use auto pilot on long, straight freeways with no traffic.

It also won’t engage below certain speeds. I have a Volvo XC60 and when we got it, the system brake checked me twice in two days. It didn’t need to, I saw the stop, but I was trying not to emergency brake for fear of being rear ended. I turned down the sensitivity for that same reason. 

It looks like Yeager also wrote the Wikipedia article on the Miles M.52: