Seriously. I drove a Fiesta for a while when cash was tight and I was not even a 1/3 of that payment on a monthly basis. It was underwhelming but for a couple of hundred a month it was reliable basic transportation. I was smart enough to get it in a stick, and accepted the fact that it was a source of jokes from…

So...exactly what Lawrence suggested in the article?

“pair things down”

That is... in no way a comp for a gas station.

And you are a person that is hard to take seriously.

While fuel prices may be having some impact, the available inventory could be an issue as well. I’m a sales analyst for a major automaker. Earlier in the year we saw unusual increases in less than popular segments, simply because that’s what still had inventory. I’d imagine the used market could be seeing the same…

I’m OK with being called an idiot. I was an idiot. I’m also nearly 11 years sober, which doesn’t invalidate my misdeeds but at least shows that I did, in fact, address my alcoholism.

I am, to my shame, a 2-time loser. And as such, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that no system exists outside of full automation that can keep drunks from driving while also not screwing over normal, rational drivers at the same time.

Basically every online media outlet that in the 2000s and early ‘10s was an edgy independent outlet is now publishing endless low energy content and literally all written in the same exact voice and perspective because 100% of these people are spending most of their working day on Twitter.

I remember reading a side show yesterday bitching about how Caddy XLRs can be totalled by a rear tail light going out. It doesn’t use replaceable bulbs and the replacement LED assembly is no longer available.

Not sure I remember the exact story right, but that is going through my head when I see Kia’s complex tail…

The scale of these things is unreal.

Get out of here with your damned reading skills and stuff.

Repairman - making a guess as to the root cause without any information regarding the accident, I bet lockout/tagout procedures were not properly followed.  Happens too frequently in industrial accidents.

Who says German luxury cars have no sole?

Agreed on all counts.

This generation of HiAce vans was a very popular model in Finland. Rust did like to eat them but otherwise they were very reliable. And nearly all of them did have a column shifted 4-speed or 5-speed transmission.

“Elon Musk” + “bad stock market thing” = instant likes, whether it makes sense or not.

dad jokes!

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see where things go from here — just a passing look at what happened a decade ago.