My wife and I have a joint account, so I’ll never get to experience the magic of letting her find out that I fucked over our finances on Christmas morning. The transaction with the Lexus dealer will be followed shortly after with her calling to ask me if I’ve lost my goddamn mind.

You need to get out more. In Europe I traveled between countries almost exclusively by train and it was frustratingly simple.

How is “Cars retaining the most value” not a negative when deciding on the best used car buys?

Can the IIHS tackle DRL LEDs that are so bright the driver thinks their headlights are on even when they’re not? I run into this all the time now, because dashboards are always lit, even with the headlights off, and DRLs are so bright the owners think their lights are on. I’ve been stuck behind someone without their…

Well done, and beautiful in a vacuum. As an automotive interior, it is jarringly tacky. Overly ornate for its own sake. Baroque.

This is the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen coming out of a luxury brand. It looks like the doodling you see on a middle school girl’s notebook, or on a pair of white converse someone drew on with a sharpie.

In the context of 50% of Americans still support Trump, supporters of this guy on Youtbe make a whole lot of sense (to an outsider like me).

came to say the same thing. that last speed bump test in an alley between people’s homes. how easily would it have been for some kid to come run out into that alley while he’s blasting down the middle at ~30mph. this guy needs his license taken away. 

Glad someone else notice that import makes don’t have a large presence outside of mid to large cities. Now the rural population may not seem as important than the cities, but there are still a lot of people that live outside cities.

Am I going to be the only one who thinks this guy is a moron doing this on public roads? Especially a burnout and hitting the nitrous on a road lined with peoples personal cars. Or damaging speed bumps in a retailers parking lot. That and I just cant stand his presentation in general.

That’s a quite a claim, but wrong regardless. The average buyer is educated and very aware of what is out there..simply put most buyers who do purchase a Focus or Cruz simply buy it because its what they need and it makes sense financially. I am not saying some don’t buy them because its all they can afford, but…

Diesel* Electric. That first part is key. Also, fixed routes make it very easy to have the needed fuel (Diesel) available along pre-planned stops.

“Hey honey, look outside - i just spent nearly sixty thousand dollars of our money without telling you!”

This is what gets me. Most people will be financing these gifts. So you’re making a decision for the household finances with only one party’s input. Seems like a terrible gift.

Surprise! Here’s a car payment. :)

I work downtown and I don’t know how people daily drive some of these things.  IF they can scrape into my parking garage, they extend 3 feet beyond the end of the space.  If two end up parked across from one another you probably need some sort of United Nations intervention to negotiate backing out.

I think they’ve mostly gotten taller, to where you can’t reach into the bed, and you can’t see over the hood if you pull up next to one. Blame it on big wheels, needed to house bug brakes, needed to one-up the competition in the towing wars.

With regards to the retiring car buyer, retirement is a financial status, not an age. If retiring significantly affects your ability to buy a car, then maybe you’re not ready to retire.  

Maybe they’ve been right all along and cannabis is in fact a gateway drug. Because this thing is a product of something much, much stronger than weed.