The average take home for the US was $52k in the US. That’s about $4300 per month. A $500 payment would be about 12% of take home income. That’s crazy.

Neutral: I just bought a new to me vehicle two weeks ago - a used MDX. I shopped for about two months across probably six or seven dealers. Only two seemed marginally interested in selling a car without games. One shocked me by being completely reasonable and fair and I bought from them.

My daughter’s namesake. RIP Ayrton Senna. 

I am trying to comprehend how tides would work and what effect the planet’s spin and orbit would have on a water world with no landmass. However, my brain isn’t great at envisioning this.

and finally, what exactly does a super bowl smell like ?

It’s also hard to view two Mercedes drivers as a true competition in the team orders era. Who knows if they’ll let them fight it out? I sure hope so, because that’s the only thing F1 could hang their hat on this season.

I’m not sure you could choose a place that has more hi-res cameras everywhere. They will probably figure this out pretty quickly.

I was responding to someone that was stating people were smug in assuming vaccines were safe. My point was that even if the risks were real (they aren’t) it’s still worth vaccinating.

Let’s just pretend to accept that there are actual autism risks with these vaccines, let’s even say all cases are related to vaccines (despite unvaccinated kids having autism) that would put the chance of autism at .4%.

That is crazy - you’re in your late 30's. At a minimum you should have a trusted physician that you visit annually for a physical.

I was at a Honda dealer this weekend and earlier this week finalizing a purchase of a car they got on trade (wasn’t a Honda).

Wait, wait, wait, you can fit 3 across in a WRX? I am having a 3rd kid and shopping cars. I didn’t think you could get 3 in WRX (2 car seats and infant bucket). 

If these claims can be substantiated Tesla’s safety personnel could go to jail as well as whomever requested the Doctor to change his tune. It’s not just about lawsuits for negligence with the company, but also people can be held criminally liable for safety violations and for not reporting accurately.

It’s funny until you deal with them not sleeping for the next month because they see “eyes” or some other issue sparked by the trailers.

Avocados. They should be sponsored by the avocado industry.

I have been getting quotes via Acura dealers on used Acura MDXs and they keep sending me these monthly payment breakdowns along with the OTD price.

We totally made 80k vehicles!

Yes, as a customer you would want to be able to introduce some subtlety to the process. Instead you are presented with the options of “Greatest experience of my life” or “Fire these people”. 

My recent experience shopping for off-lease Acura MDX’s has been disappointing.

100%. I was in college back then and our finance class had to make a fake portfolio starting with $100k. This was probably 1998 or 1999. I am pretty sure after the semester the worst performer was still up 20% over the course of 3 months and I am pretty sure I was close to 200% growth - it was so ludicrous.