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Yeah but couldn’t you specifically just force choke them until you got the price you want?

I recommend my dad’s way of negotiation. Make a deal, say you gotta go home. Next day, ask for $1000 off the agreed price. Then make another excuse to go home again. Next day, ask for another $1000 off. Leave with another excuse. Come back the next day and the next until the dealer gives up. That’s your best price.

That “make an appointment” thing has actually worked out well for me. The salesperson has set aside time for me and has a couple of versions of the car I spoke to them over the phone about ready to go.  Nothing fancy either, I was working a couple hours away and my wife’s Saturn was on it’s last legs and she really,…

[...]does it really make cents?

Tangent: I don’t understand people who want to “save” the wear-and-tear on their very ordinary vehicles like Toyota Camries and the like. They usually end up spending more to drive other cars than the depreciation and maintenance costs on their own vehicle. In my mind, cars are tools, meant to be driven, not put away…

Not only let you turn it off, but change how it sounds. I know the Renault hot hatch let you make it any number of classic and performance cars and also included an F1 car and a UFO. I’m sure you’d never leave those on for long, but they embraced the tech and let you ave fun with it.

Those are not “jet engines” silly. Those are Girodyne SRB42 sublight engines. And they were heavily modified through the addition of a SLAM overdrive that rerouted energy for acceleration bursts.

A hardcore driver would still rather not get broadsided by a semi because he has a giant blind spot. This thing isn’t that great with rear visibility.

Hard to get excited about something I can’t buy for 25 years. 

Yes, on the Mazda 6 since 2014. As I stated in the article. 

BMW’s efficient dynamics system didn’t have a capacitor and instead used a huge deep cycle battery. I seem to recall that if you used it only on short drives it would kill the battery every couple of years and BMW eventually made it part of the annual service to replace the battery. That was fine when the car was new…

The relative savings of increased fuel mileage is also waning. Say, 10k miled per year at 30mpg with $2.50/ gas. That’s $833 a year in gas.

What is about these crossovers with no off-road ability that convinces you to pay a premium just so you can give up handling, fuel economy, and rollover safety?

Mr. 3008 over here...

Of course big wings are dumb, that’s why they’re good.

We got my wife a $25K GL450, we’ve already replaced the air suspension on both sides and a handful of other 4-digit items.

That’s the manual transmission of beverage dispensing technology.  

30 Budweisers is, like, a couple sips of wine.

Not gonna lie, when I saw the lead image I thought this was some specially designed cup for drivers to piss in while driving. But it's used for beer. Same difference I guess