5) Guess how much it’s going to cost, because apparently that’s how paying in advance works?

Hey, I give them props for doing something. Japan’s declining birthrate has been a thing for 2-3 decades now.

I think that’s scummy AF, even though I’m actually pretty neutral towards dealers, unlike most people that hate them to death. I used to work for Reynolds & Reynolds and I worked with dealer software; I understand them more than most of the public.

Let’s not forget Once Upon a Time in America! Leone is up there with Scorsese IMO.

The fact that she was frustrated enough to consider buying a new car just for one simple issue is not an advantage to take. You may get a few new car buyers that way, but if your service department’s MO is to ignore basic  problems just to frustrate owners enough to trade up, you’ll just lose both service customers…

I saw this before, what a weird video. Which employees saw this in training? Clearly this can’t have been for external consumption.

Yes, I don’t mean to be unfair to the writers- it’s a good thing that they store voluminous information covering news releases, engineering details, history, and the relative cultural perspective of some of the old cars. I think the quality of the writing is usually pretty good, which is why I go there to learn…

I’m using “slapdash” as shorthand for the very real effects of cars being of poor quality due to bad design and assembly, which you can choose to blame on their boneheaded management, icy labor relations, troubled times, or whatever.

Ah yes, Austin Rover online... as soon as I saw the detailed writing replete with pictures of an arcane variant of a BL car, who else could it be? From the most slapdash British automaker springs the most fastidious British car fans.

This is a FANTASTIC idea. I would binge the hell out of that show.

Skip every scene with Potts and his kids and it’s not bad. I really like the way Goldfinger and his wife chew the scenery, while Grandpa and the bumbling Vulgarian spies were hilarious.

Fast food isn’t all the same, and McDonald’s is regarded by most as far ahead of the curve on automation, adherence to procedures, and removal of human decision-making. This usually means extreme consistency, but errors have a tendency of not getting checked by anyone.

I thought that everyone acknowledged that this was true already. Peach was fast enough, controlled well enough, and could FLOAT in a platform game. I used her for 80% of all levels. Feels like cheating, honestly.

I honestly hoped this would be a tip about how to keep the goddamn lids from getting gummed up so you can “reach” your mostly full jar of Marmite that you occasionally want.

That’s cool that they made a $100k fast German luxury wagon. What isn’t quite as cool is how these unicorn cars are used as a metaphor for the fickleness of wagon buyers who mostly can’t afford to even consider something like this.

I mostly agree, but there are exceptions. Sometimes you need to get somewhere fast and don’t have the money at the moment. Family members in other parts of the world approaching death, for instance.

It warms my heart that they still produce the Niva and that it has not changed.

People are yelling at you because you’re a raging asshole. It’s independent of any points you may be making or disputing.

It’s remarkable that he was convicted of any kind of murder charge. Kudos to the jury. There is no place for a person in society who thinks he can kill for this reason, and the prosecutor obviously should have gone for murder one.

I think that cliche that you need to replace a bad habit with a good habit has a 21st century corollary: an addictive behavior can only be usurped with something else provably addictive. Is reading novels addictive? I guess it was for me at a certain age, but I’d have to put in a LOT of conscious, continuous effort to…