Toyota, please stop calling your performance line TRD. The middle school boy in me refuses to call it anything but turd and that can’t be good for marketing.

Nissan - they need to start making good cars again. In the past, Nissan was in the mix with Toyota and Honda with quality, recently their cars have been much less so. They are also ridiculously expensive to fix if they are out of warranty. I loved Nissan in the past, but my recent experience with an Altima and similar…

Checks out, 10 times the horse power of the original, 10 times the cost.

I don’t know. I think it might be in the running for at least a top 5 spot.

Now your just trolling us, David.

You need a new mechanic. $3,000 maybe for a rebuilt motor installed.

No they don’t. If you go to your neighbor and tell him you will wash is car for a $1, then they are not obligated to pay you minimum wage. They are not employers. Uber is a service provided to the drivers to book clients, that’s it. Uber drivers are small business owners (ask the IRS) and as such, there is no…

Uber is a service provided to the driver to be able to book clients. It is no different than a store using a credit card processor to process credit card transactions. The store is the client, not the person using the credit card. If these people want a job, then get a job. Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy services…

Or do, because it’s a free country and some of us might not support this BS. Drivers can choose to work for what these companies pay or choose to do something else. This is gig job, and you can’t take the benefits of that without acknowledging their are downsides too. Unionizing the drivers is the surest way to make…

GMC Envoy/Chevy trailblazer/Isuzu Ascender/Saab 97-x. The inline 6 is bullet proof and they were available with a manual. I have one (mine is auto) and it has been a great vehicle.

Where would you get parts? Who would work on it if there is an issue? Sorry, not only is this a CP, it is basically worthless.

Congrats, David! I still think this project was ill-advised, but you worked hard on this and I am glad you made it there and back safely. It did make for a great story, which I followed closely. I would love to see you go all the way on one of these projects and get them to the point of being a machine that a normal…

Better yet, Hellephant in project POStal! (your going to need a better welder and A LOT of steel). 

If everyone who sang the praises of manual transmissions actually bought cars with manual transmissions, more cars would still have manual transmissions.

I have spent a portion of my career working for entrepreneurs who are multi-millionaires. Many, if not most, started with next to nothing and built successful businesses. They sacrifice when others won’t, take chances when others wouldn’t, and worked harder than most are willing to. Most did have some lucky breaks,…

True, but my point was that spending as much as you can is the best way to make sure you never have wealth.

Nope, a budget is a plan to spend money. I have a grocery budget. While I could spend all my income on groceries, I have set a budgeted amount for my grocery spending. Saying that her car budget in $35K means that she has defined that amount as the most she will spend for that expenditure. She may have the means to…

Correction: people who buy the most expensive car they can afford, will likely never be able to afford purchasing a house on the beach in the OC.

Agreed, most people overestimate their ability to negotiate. These sales guys are trained professionals, and most people are going to loose if they try to beat them at their own game.

Well, for the record, I don’t think it is true. There are a lot of bad cops, and there needs to be some serious reform, especially with the way that they interact and treat minorities. There are way too many that have god complexes and too many are authority junkies. However, there are just as many out there that take…