I went out around 9:30 last night to get gas in the Woodbridge, VA area to get gas. Took about 30 minutes at a station with 8 or 9 pumps. People were being assholes, but it wasn’t a mass panic. A lot of people around here have to drive more than 30 miles a day, so I wasn’t terribly surprised by the crowd.

I got an unsecured auto loan from Lighstream in 2017 at 2.59%. The only “restriction” was that I bought a car from a dealership(which I did).   But since it was unsecured, I was free to spend the money anyway I wanted.

I don’t know if this is in the same category as “if it bleeds it leads”.  From an engineering perspective, everything prior to the explosion may have been groundbreaking. But for the average person, a vehicle unexpectedly exploding sort of negates everything else it can do.

I think the list is pretty good for Minnesotans, even though it should be painfully obvious. I encountered plenty of drivers that never mounted decent tires, winter or otherwise. Not having decent tires, not avoiding skidding, not leaving enough room, and not being prepared is exactly why the ditches are full cars…

Haha! You missed the joke! You must be old.  Thanks for the laugh!

The extra crazy part is those same people are the ones that FIGHT against programs like universal healthcare because they don’t want to “pay for someone else’s problems”, but will happily send money to a megachurch because Jesus told the preacher he needs a private jet.

This sounds more likely. We love the Hellcat All The Things plan, but they will only sell in volume in the US. But in the US, no one wants the small fuel efficient FCA offerings, they don’t really do electric/hybrid, so they are rapidly painting themselves in to a corner.

Bob Lutz explains it all in painstaking detail.

Who wants to buy a 15 year old car for NEW car money?

I replaced plenty of those Taurus head units. Metra made a dash kit for these cars.  It included 15 feet of wire harness because Ford was already using the NEX approach - the factory tuner and and speaker connections were mounted under the back seat. 

This is a motorcycle that I could see myself purchasing this year. On paper, it meets my needs, and its affordable. But I’m 5'11 with a 34" inseam, and currently approaching 240 lbs. with all my riding gear on. I’m very comfortable on my Triumph Sprint, but I fear that this may be too small or too slow for my…

As far as the ownership...that is concerning. I’d certainly want to hear his story.

As a former car audio installer, I would have high-fived that dude.

They aren’t that hard to find if you are looking for them. And this one has the all too common Cambiocorsa transmission which is a pain in the ass to use, expensive to maintain, and unreliable. If it was a true manual, then maybe its worth $25k.

I test drove a sedan when they first hit the market...it was shockingly dull considering the hype of it being a “3 series killer”.

Because just comparing horsepower sucks so much.   The v8 in the SS made 323 lb-ft of torque compared to 262 in the M3.  They were designed with different goals in mind.

I was even more disturbed by the piece of regular old carpet under the urinal in the other men’s room. Best case scenario is that its part of a booby trap and is just lo0sely covering a deep pit.

We don’t have the preponderance of young buyers like we had from the ‘60s through the ‘80s who drove the market for sporty cars.

Unfortunately, that means roughly $12,000 into a Frankenstein Porsche project based on a 986. There are plenty of well sorted Boxsters for less, and that’s about where S pricing starts. The 3.4 would be fun when it was working, but I’d rather have a bone stock S...those cars are damn near perfect out of the box.

All the Stars...I think Kendric Llamar and SZA would approve.