You are still on the money today. 

WTAF, who signed on that loan in the first place? Car loans have become insane between eternal payments, high interest and the occasional negative equity.

NYC cost of living is insane. That 80 square foot apartment is the size of one of my bedrooms for the same as my mortgage payment for a 3 bedroom house in a resort town.

With sufficient inputs of speed, alcohol and favorable topography any car can fly, once.

Time for a Fisker  and Vinfast comparison test, battle of the half-baked EV.

Excel is good at some things but makes a bad database and also bad database designs. A good database designer and a good software engineer cost the same as a couple of aerodynamic engineers  and the payoff is a much more efficient build process.  They could probably find off the shelf software since a lot of…

Way back when either Car and Driver or Consumer Reports did a test and found that a,tonneau or a cap made a significant difference in gas mileage by cleaning up air flow over the bed. FWIW a canopy was the most efficient.  

Pretty good for a,driving around and hauling medium sized stuff truck, over optimistic for towing stuff. The 7500lb tow rating leaves that little engine flat out everywhere unlike my old F150 which only needs major throttle on hills. Also that 5' bed seems meager.

The CyberCucks are nonstop comedy. My 20 year old 2WD truck could do that water crossing without breaking stuff.

It depends on the 5.4. The early 2 valve is Car Wizard approved if you repair damaged spark plug threads with solid inserts and torque the plugs to 20 ft-lbs. The 3 valve and 4 valve engines are the disasters. 

If you cut it in half you get a decent engine. The slant 4 was the basis of the Dolomite Sprint engine and the Saab 99 Turbo, plus reasonably tough base model engines.  

1. the AMG M Class is,a flawed concept, supermotards are the only successful application of sticky low profile street tires on an off road vehicle.

I think it’s time to bring back Project Car He’ll. This looks even more scary than a Citroën SM with leaky hydraulics and a bad timing belt.

Then you will appreciate the joke "why did G-d  create WASPs? So someone would pay retail "

A good mechanic or a fresh banger are your fallback positions. Part of the strategy is cut your losses if something difficult or expensive fails. 

This proves the wisdom of bangernomics as long as you have space and resources for 2 or more cheap cars and supply of replacements when they break beyond repair. The problem is you have to be willing to drive an old vehicle and have a backup if it breaks. I have one good car from 2017 and two early oughts vehicles so…

My sample set is Oregon East of the Cascades where they mostly act like they have work to do. The Midwest is almost another country so your observation is valid

On the positive side, an 83 means K-Jetronic with an O2 sensor instead of Digifant and decent performance.  Mom had an 82 convertible and I had an 84 Jetta so I'm very familiar with these. The minus side is triple white Valley Girl color scheme and a damaged top. NP at $5000 ND at this price. I like them but in an…

I will stand by my belief Apple bailed because they couldn’t make a car with one button and a click wheel 

Yes, I forgot to mention that.