We’re always talking about how cars are priced way above their previous models according to inflation, but what about cars that are priced well below their inflation adjusted MSRP? For example, was a 2008 Subaru Outback better value than a 2018 Subaru Outback?

To be fair, though, his response is confusing, pedantic and, well, Musk-ish. “I prefer no titles at all” really means “I’d much rather be chairman but the SEC and others in my company convinced me to let it go, so I stepped down, but I’ll be damned if anybody else is going to be chairman, so NOBODY GETS A TITLE.”…

Your average consumer that watches seventeen minutes of F1 per year doesn’t give a shit about tire compounds. Your average F1 fan is already a fanatic and can tell you the exact chemical differences between C3 and C4. I think they’re just mad Pirelli didn’t make it MORE complicated so they could geek out further.

Peachtree City has an entire separate road network just for the things

Hey, don’t patronize us for being thrifty and buying used if you’re also going to regurgitate the same old ‘Don’t want if it doesn’t have three pedals’ adage. You’re just as guilty over the death of wagons as we are.

For the life of me I can’t figure out why the XF Sportbrake S is $71k and the F-Pace S is $59k. They have the same engine and the XF is arguably less car. At least they’re putting the 2.0 4-cyl in the Wagon, even though it’s going to be $64k ($10k more than the F-Pace 25t!). Jaguar is over here like “We can’t figure…

If it’s any indication, the ‘19 V60 will probably be a good lease too. We lease an ‘18 XC60, just picked it up in July. T5 Momentum AWD, MSRP of something like $49k, they gave us a cap price at invoice ($44k). Money factor was low, ended up at 3 years with 10k miles for $539 (no tax, we live in Oregon) with zero…

Speaking of dumb crowdfunding, have you heard about the meth addict that clawed her eyes out and has now raised $27k for a seeing eye dog?

I just googled it, and while I won’t say who, I’ll say it sounds terrifying - they achieved Mach 2.005 by flying up to 72k feet before pushing over into a shallow dive and punching it. 

The wheels and badges are forgivable (and removable). Dropping the car onto lowered springs and neglecting to put in a clean steering wheel before selling pushed me over the limit.

I’m more surprised you turned it back on a third time

Jesus, man. Remind me never to fly with you.

This deserves more stars

That line seriously fucked me up when the movie came out. I never realized it was BS, and I spent many nights trying to double clutch my ‘96 Volvo in an attempt to make it go faster. 

Yeah I’m not sure why Torch said ‘metal pylons.’ They’re clearly plastic lane dividers, designed to be run over and (usually) pop back up. Though they’ll probably fuck up your bumper and paint, they won’t kill you or disable your car.

Happened to my Dad and I test driving a Volvo about 15 years ago. It was a ‘96 850, accelerating to merge onto the freeway and the hood suddenly pops open and flies up, completely blinding us. Terrifying. We managed to pull over and shut it safely before driving back (slowly). The sketchy used car guy laughed and said…

That’s bullshit. Nobody in OR carries handle-less bags anymore; I don’t mind paper bags with handles and most checkers are really good about double-bagging by default. 

It’s not strictly a West Coast thing. Sure, CA has a statewide ban, but Anchorage, Honolulu, Boston, Portland (ME), Jersey City, Providence, Austin and Moab in addition to Seattle and Portland (OR) have city-wide bans. Granted, that’s like 20% of states... So yeah there are still a LOT of states without bans...…

Plastic?! Bah! Where do you live? Most major cities have banned plastic bags by now.

My brain hurts reading that