This was epic. As a tech nerd and a car nerd, this was a 10/10! The socialist propaganda bit made me shoot coffee out my nose. While I certainly don’t always agree with your takes, they are always entertaining. FYI, your post about the cars at the Lane Motor Museum have inspired me to check it out, so my boys and I…

I’m torn on this one, but went with CP. I had a red one that was not a M-sport, but mine was automatic (don’t judge me!). It was a fun car to drive, but under powered and the fit and finish were cheap. Now, if this was one of the 323 ti, then we have a whole different story.

I think in these situations, the golden rule applies, “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.” So, in this case, I think you are fine. A note would have been nice, but since you couldn’t, I think you did the right thing. I would have appreciated it if it was my car.

To the last one, if you are at a place financially where you are upside down on Kia Optima and are worried about financing another car, you should not be buying any car, much less a more upscale car. Cars are a depreciating asset, and if you keep playing that financing cars while your underwater game, you will end up…

They try to get job security by staging a strike that has cost the company 1.6 billion dollars? So if I am GM, I can keep my production in the US and deal with employees that are already getting higher wages than workers in other companies and deal with the UAW, or I can move my plants to another country where I don’t…

The word unsafe implies that the activity is legitimately dangerous. I don’t dispute the fact that new cars are exponentially more safe and in that way better than older ones, but that does not mean that driving an old car is “horribly unsafe”. Staying in bed on a given day is much safer than walking down a sidewalk,…

Experience is survivor bias? The fact that the vast majority of people who rode in old cars survived the experience and suffered no major injuries supports the fact that driving and old car was not significantly more dangerous that driving a new one when compared to legitimately dangerous activities. I can’t tell you…

I am not arguing that it is not good that new cars safer. I am glad they are. The comment stated “Don’t ever get get in an accident in that thing!” implying certain doom if you did, and that is stupid. Going over Niagara falls in a barrel is dangerous, driving an old truck is not.

I know that is hard for people who live in NYC to understand, but only 2.6% of the population of the US live there. 97.4% of the US and an even larger percentage of the world population that this publication reaches could not care less about some stupid street in NYC. This blog dedicates an inordinate amount of time…

This is a huge issue. Everyone who rode in cars made prior to 2014 is dead now because all old cars are death traps. In fact, I must be a modern miracle because I daily rode in cars made in the 60s that didn’t even have seat belts and I am still alive. 

As my parents can attest, if there is an unexplained small hole in a metal object, a BB gun was likely involved.

I am making the assumption that the crap comments below are from US citizens, which may be untrue. But most US citizens are fine with protecting our VP even if we disagree with their politics. I guess present company is excluded.

You would almost think that union bosses had a history of being linked to organized crime or something. Oh, wait.....

Jimmy Hoffa had different choices in weapons.

Until the rich upper management shuts the plant, moves it to Mexico because profits aren’t what the stock holders demand. The fat cats at the top are still rich, but now the working class guy is out of a job. The UAW still has his dues. The union leadership are still raking in their 6 figure salaries, and don’t think…

Yes, in some cases. The problems is that the UAW does not care at all about the health of the company. In your scenario, the workers have a job. The union comes in and forces the company to pay higher wages and benefits, which they can not afford to do and still make the profit margins their stock holders demand, so…

Wow, what a compelling argument for your point of view!

Why have automotive manufacturing jobs been going to Mexico, Canada, and other countries? The answer is the UAW. The only thing that union does is fleece their members pockets, then drive their jobs out of the country after taking their money. The minuscule benefits that the UAW has provided for their members has…

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All the crackheads in the comments saying this is not a fun car to drive because it is not the SI have obviously never driven one of these. They are a little under powered, but that can easily be fixed, and they are a hoot even if they are stock. They are not going to have impressive numbers, but they are a blast. If…