Chalk only costs $3,150.

The secret’s out: asking prices have doubled and tripled in the past few years. I saw a guy in my town driving a 550 recently and wanted to flag him down and say “hey man, you know that thing is worth a shit load of money now!” But maybe he doesn’t and maybe he’ll sell it for 2008 money...

I’m a Porsche-driving (okay Cayenne-driving) lawyer and I threw the $175 settlement offer in the garbage. What if I can afford a new GT-2 in 20 years and they see my name on the “took settlement cash” list?!

Is the “real” Top Gear not globally appealing as it is? Do we really need a niche ‘Merican Top Gear in 2017? The real one has an American and now we get a Brit? I hate to be such a cynic about decent car programming but I’m up to my ass in contrived story lines centered around vehicles at this point.

Steve Doocy*: “I heard Muslims often don’t wear wedding rings...”

And now he’s pissed about this article because he says it was off the record. So... a leak.

What I love about Trump is that he picks people for important jobs based on how they did in a Fox News panel he saw. His lawyers - charged with navigating some SERIOUS allegations, possibly even treason - are generally just injury guys from New York who sound tough.

There was some of that but also the Tax Man was calling...

Valuable lesson: always ask for labor compensation at various stages of completion.

Nah. But he did buy me several subsequent vehicles. We’ll call it even.

Nah. But he did buy me several subsequent vehicles. We’ll call it even.

When I was 13 my dad bought me a 1955 CJ-5 out of a guy’s backyard for $300. My friend and I spent the summer cleaning the carb, installing a fuel pump (to the tank under the driver’s seat), and doing other repairs with the Haynes manual.

That’s the biggest damn 8-month-old I’ve ever seen.

Oh for sure. Absolut has relied heavily on marketing too (and they ruined the damn blue dog art for me). And to your point: once you create a multi-billion dollar “super premium” vodka, I’m sure a good deal does go into R&D *now* but the original spirit began as, mostly, a gimmick.

An ad from a couple years ago - other pics show this one wearing “3 SWB” plates. It’s real. I would die if I saw that.

My favorite business story is that the guy who created Grey Goose was just a marketing genius. He saw that Absolut was generally the top shelf vodka available and said “lets just make something 25% more expensive with a fancy frosted bottle.” And now we’re up to our asses in “premium” tasteless spirits.

... Then you just buy a 911 - whatever flavor - and be done with it.

... Then you just buy a 911 - whatever flavor - and be done with it.

“Dismissed for failure to make plan payments...”

This article doesn’t even mention the worst part about repossession: getting a deficiency judgment against you once your car is repo’d and sold, when you still owe the money on the loan. I’ve seen people get judgments against them for $20k for a Hyundai that was repossessed & sold for $1,800. How do you even begin to…