Came here to say this.  :)

Yeah.  I mean, the fact that I still own my 350Z after all these years tells me that I didn’t make a bad decision.  I love that car and it still brings a smile to my face when I drive it.  I just hate that the market has fallen out on them to the point that most people driving them these days are high school kids who…

There are some days that I regret buying a 350Z instead of an S2000 back in the day.  At the time I daily drove a (stock) Civic and figured I already had one high revving, low torque car.  I wanted something beefier down low.  Now, though, I see which car has held its value better.  And I want something high revving…

None of these recommendations seem to take into account the fact that kids (younger kids especially) will absolutely *not* wear a mask all day long. Good luck getting a K student to wear a mask for more than 15 minutes at a time. Many of these kids can barely use the bathroom properly.

Haha. I had that level of status at one time. I spent over a year straight checked into the same hotel room at one point in my career. I never used the guaranteed room perk, though. The one time I looked into it, I realized that a guaranteed room didn’t guarantee a reasonable rate, and since this was for personal…

Hey. Before my last cross country move I had a “whole house garage sale”. The first person to arrive bought my piano and gave me cash with a promise to pick it up later. Two weeks and multiple phone calls later guess what was the last piece of furniture in my house?

Pre-COVID I used to make frequent trips to another city for business.  My preferred hotel chain has been “text enabled” for a while now and this is why I love it.  They generally send a text the day of to ask if I need anything.  And if I’m running late I can text from the plane (assuming wifi isn’t broken) to let…

Or PS4 to PC? Christ the asset pop-in problem is such a downer on the PS4.

Anybody know how to search more than 1000 miles from a zip code?  It’s the most frustrating thing about their site.

Yeah.  But none of them care.

I would probably round that number down to 60% or so.  Having a kid has changed my perspective on how much room you need for those damn rear facing car seats.  And how much space a god damned stroller takes up.  I’d say that this car is not suitable for anybody who may need to transport a kid or kids under 3.  And…

I know I’m taking the bait here, but as many have pointed out there is no way that Hertz could have foreseen their business going to zero and staying there for this long. Hertz made $168 million in 2019 and $225 million in 2018 off of $9.8 billion and $9.5 billion in total revenues respectively. The fact is, they were…

And this, my friends, is why I am always hesitant to buy a former rental car. As P.J. O’Rourke once put it - the fastest car in the world is a rental car: http://www.heretical.com/miscella/reptile.html

I just wish Hertz had some of the 400 bhp models on fire sale right now.  That’s on the short list for a new car for myself.

You should probably ask the accountants.  But I’d hazard a guess that they do it because they make money on them.

FFS, what is with this letter and number trend these days.  Can anybody keep the Infiniti line straight these days? 

Random anecdote: when the 1994 mini-series was airing, I was dealing with one of the worst sicknesses I’ve ever had. This includes one night where I was running a 103 degree fever and my parents had to rush me to the emergency room.  It was very surreal to watch this mini-series from the couch where I felt like I was…

I for one am waiting for better deals on new cars that don’t involve extra long loans. Or that involve extra long loans plus cash off the top. And that may never come, and that’s fine too. I’m in no rush to buy a car that’s going to get driven once a week.  But as somebody who was in the market to buy a new car before…

Nah.  Musk is more of this generation’s Howard Hughes - somebody who got rich from some really great ideas in his early years, but who lost all his marbles soon after.

Well that’s a matter of opinion that is heavily based on where you’re going in the LA area and where you’re coming from.  My home airport used to fly direct to LAX but not to any of the other LA area airports.  So, guess which LA airport I would fly into.