It’s all fun and games until a nosey neighbor calls social services on you for child neglect. It’s 2020. Kids live at home forever and sleep in an adult crib in their parent’s bedroom.

The salesman doesn’t care at all which trim level he sells you. It rarely affects their commission. With some manufacturers trim might affect what manufacturer bonuses the salesman can get, but at the dealership level, trim doesn’t matter at all.

You can try the old switcheroo by pretending to want the extras from finance, but when you renege in the finance office, don’t be surprised if they just cancel the deal. At a certain point, pride comes into play for the dealership personnel, and sometimes they would rather give up a low profit sale just to prove a…

I’d like to see a study of how many drivers Uber wrongly deactivated based on cheap passengers sending in false intoxication claims so they can get free rides.

It’s amazing to remember that I paid about $24k for my Acura RSX-S all the way back in 2002. I’m not sure if I am more amazed that Honda is selling a nearly identical car 18 years later (in size and power) or that the price really hasn’t changed in 18 years (adjusted for inflation, the 2020 Civic Si is way cheaper…

The used market for trucks is very strong. 12 year old pick ups with over 100k for miles are still well over $10k in my area.

Yes, but Gen X also worked through school - at a job, or 2. I used to live on campus, then every friday afternoon, my dad picked me up and brought me home. I’d work 2 12 hour days at my job, then go back to campus. Later I also got an on campus job. So yeah, my student loans were less, but it still took me years to…

“The problem for Ghosn is that, even if this is all true, that doesn’t mean he didn’t break the law. If you alienate people, they may try to figure out if you committed crimes. If they figure out that you did commit crimes, “but the crimes aren’t really why they were out to get me” is not a great defense.”

Cadillac called. They need your help naming their new models.

Japanese brands get a pass on recycling old platforms. The Camry was built in the same platform for 3 full generations, until the new model that just came out. Same with most Infiniti models. They’ve all been on the same FM chassis since 2001, only in the last few years have the newer models been built on newer…

Your commuting method of choice should depend on where you live. For the life of me I can’t understand why anyone would want to drive into Boston or NYC every day for work. 

The question about deals on manual transmission cars really depends on the car. if you find a random compact sedan with a manual, and that’s your thing, you can probably get a pretty good deal on it. But a sports car or sports sedan with a manual, probably not.

The difference is is that today uber has no worries about the running costs of all the cars. They have totally offset that onto the drivers, and they don’t need to worry about whether the driver is turning a profit or not. Once they own the cars themselves, making each car profitable becomes important. I could see…

The hitch for the ride share companies is that they hide the scope of work and pay for each “job” they give to the drivers

And those generous holy grail western european countries are desperately trying to reduce their social welfare spending - see riots in France over using the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Self driving cars was just a con to get more VC money. If and when self driving cars actually come along (and can go anywhere in any conditions - ha!), sure there will be savings in what they pay drivers, but those savings are offset by the huge capital expenditure for buying millions of cars, and then all the…

Yes, this should’ve been at least a top 20 list. So many of the cars on your list really deserve the public shaming.

My point was that paying the extra money to go from the hybrid to the plug in wasn’t worth, because you would never make that money back in gas savings. 

I just checked cars.com. 2017 Fusion Energy plug in hybrid, 30k, no accident for $12,999. Ouch.

This car was class leading - in 2012... And that pretty much sums up all of Ford’s recently departed sedans. The Fiesta, Focus and Fusion all came out at about the same time, and at that time had class leading features. But Ford let them all rot, giving them new grills and not much else since. So of course, now the…