Funny how the same state that labels their citizens criminals for owning a non-modified AR-15 "assault rifle" (it's not) turns around and says that their M-16s are "Essential life saving items".

My mom's jetta oil burner has fallen victim to the same fate. All in parking lots, all hit and runs. 4 times in 30k.

yes! I'm trying to sell my wife's Jetta now. She got t-boned years ago when she bought it new in cash after 5k miles. Now 80k later I'm trying to sell it with rust developing in the door sills. Awesome resale value. The rest of the car got the shit beat out it equally as bad due too her own faults and others of…

I, too, have found my 2012 Jetta to be a magnet. 4 times in two years. None my fault. Once was a cop! The WORST drivers around here in the Galleria area of Houston.

Wife had that problem with a Scion XB. I finally pleaded for the insurance company to total it, and they did. Bought a Volkswagen to replace it....

Tesla takes $1.2 billion from general tax fund.

I was watching CHiPs on DVD late one night in college after I got home from the bar drunk. My buddy walked into my room and said if he didn't know any better he'd have thought I was watching softcore gay porn.

Not pictured: high-and-mighty electric car owner, lecturing the steam-car driver as he shovels expensive, earth-killing coal into his vehicle.

"APPEARED IN A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE" has to at least double (triple?) the car's worth on Craigslist next year, right?

Yup. Though the fact that you are surprised by this tells a lot about your level of leftist insanity.

I vote Democrat so I'm counting on Social Securi.... LOL almost made it.

didnt mean to reply to you. i got kinja'd

And Gawker is a Cayman Islands-incorporated business which doesn't pay taxes in the United States, but is based in the United States. Clearly Gawker knows the US has some of the highest corporate tax rates around, so they'll do anything to help that bottom line.

A few months later, a reporter spotted Barry driving the Jaguar with its rear bumper dragging across the pavement in front of the Wilson Building. A hit-and-run driver had smashed into the car while it was parked near his home, Barry said.

So far no wrongdoing has been alleged, but at least part of the growth in the auto market has clearly been fueled by easy money and, having learned the mistakes of the past, it seems regulators are making sure it isn't too easy.

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Absolutely. Whenever I see a cop car on the side of the road with its lights flashing away, I assume there's no car in front of him unless I see red plastic unlit lenses.

Of course the title is misleading... it's a Gawker site... where CLICK BAIT is the journalism standard!

Everyone knows the old Benjamin Franklin quote- "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."