Yeah, that’s the other thing. I’d have a really hard time spending in excess of $40,000 on a new Kia because--although the cars are quite nice--their dealership experience really hasn’t caught up. It is catered first and foremost at credit-challenged customers who will put up with all sorts of crap because they don’t…

So true!  There are screens everywhere already, and frankly I’m pretty tired of them.  Especially when they replace something like speedometer and tach.  Everytime I sit in a new car with just one flat screen for the gauges it just looks cheap and lazy.  Plus, screens in cars have lousy blacks, making everything look…

What color is the sky in the world where Aston Martin Financial Services allows you to transfer a lease to someone else? Because there are a lot of companies leasing $25,000 cars which won’t.

Why does it take having someone about to leave for us to get an article like this. This is the kind of shizz we need every freaking day.

I’ll let you in on a secret. Most rich people aren’t driving an Aston Martin. That is if we are talking about high net worth people with money in the bank.

Alanis, if there was ever a way to say goodbye, this is it. May the Heart of the Cards always be with you.

The world is littered with former athletes and other sudden millionaires that had no education in money management that end as poor as when they started or worse.

The other side of the coin is if I’m a buyer who wants one, and I just plunked down $60,000 on an overpowered 90's Mercedes, I’d damn well expect the dealer to let me keep it.

“striking colors such as light ivory, green-gray, sand yellow, Arab gray or canyon beige.”

He’s saying it wasn’t communism or socialism. Which is what so many critics of those systems don’t understand. They were called that to help appease the people, but the systems were actually authoritarian. Just because a system is called something, doesn’t mean it is something. Like North Korea call themselves the…

His horrific style of communism wasn’t communism at all. Just your run-of-the-mill authoritarian despotism. The revolution didn’t transfer the means of production onto the population. The proletariat didn’t rule the country. Much like Stalin’s USSR, it was just an ultrafascist state with red flags. It would be like…

Sorry.I can’t like those Hongqis.Not one bit.
It’s not just the ugliness. i’d feel like i was cheering for china’s mao’s horrific style of communism.

The problem is, even though it is actually rust, it’s so fake looking and even that it just ends up looking like flock wallpaper. I’m a sucker for ‘real’ patina on a vehicle (I’ve got a ‘72 Bonneville that spent 30 years under a tarp in a barn), but the faking techniques almost always look terrible.

I remember this. It spread to the import scene too. Saw a few civics and integras with rusted hoods 

Aaaaaaand the countdown to 2045 has begun 

Yikes. Another one gone who actually *does* car things.

Pretty soon this place is going to be Raph and Balaban hanging out in Torch’s basement wearing ugly sweaters unironically and talking about how the shape Ford’s next concept car’s turn indicator is a metaphor for how society is crumbling.  Or if Tesla’s CEO is…

wow rude?

Guys we know you are broke. We get it. There has to be a funding source. I literally can’t take a single more “How I bought a car for $5" “How I kept a cheap car going” “My adventures in $100 car” story. We are car guys/gals not junk car people. We are at peak petrol car; there won’t be another era when we can share…