1st Gear.... I guess I gotta eat my words from yesterday. This has to be the first post (at least part of a post) that isn’t entirely negative from Erik that I can remember in a long time. Thank you! It gets so dreary continually reading blanket, negative, throw the baby out with the bathwater, type posts. Hopefully…

If it were a union job, the post wouldn’t be up yet and the tire would have wiped out one of the eight guys getting paid $35/hour to stand around and smoke butts.

Reminds me at work back when we had walk up computers without passwords. An employee made the mistake of writing a cover letter to a resume on a walk up computer and leaving the file open. Next guy up did a search and replace on the word “Instrumentation Technician” with “Chicken Violator” and hit save.

These are the same people that tried to give Trump shit for saying “grab her by the pussy”. Their moral high ground is a pile of sand.

As a strong Trump hater, I cannot wait to watch Trump try to come up with shit to talk about for four days. The amount of stupid shit he’s inevitably going to say is going to be amazing.

“Bungles??! I thought you said Buggles!! Oh no!!” -Ford Marketing Exec

Neutral: I strongly recommend muting the word “Trump” on social media over the next week. The GOP convention is just going to be one long endless wail for attention. 

I have no idea why anyone would even buy a used Tacoma. Just buy a new one. They literally don’t depreciate. Put down a modest downpayment and you’ll never be underwater.

My takeaway is that the Changli’s quality is about in line with my Fiesta ST’s after 3 months..

He was born in South Africa to Canadian and South African parents.  I know that a few Republicans were dead-set on getting Schwarzenegger into the oval office after his success in California, but there doesn’t seem to be much appetite to amend the constitution to this affect when the rubber meets the road. 

I don’t think Lexus makes trucks....

How do I get a David Tracy only Jalopnik feed. 

“The tech industry pays more; the tech industry is faster paced with regards to innovation; the Big Three tend to offer slower upward mobility, and living in Detroit can be, well, cold and suburban.”

Neutral: I smoked a strain called brain drain. Honestly though, the brain drain is in GMs styling department. And the bean counters don't make it easy.

I can see it now:

The only one worth a damn is the Prince store in the Minneapolis airport.

Because screw people that work for themselves and own businesses, right? You don’t know her expenses to rent that apartment, or her mortgage obligation. Not only is that person out income, they likely have a substantial negative cash flow due to those expenses and mortgage payment. She probably has tens of thousands…

Honestly, fuck you.

Here you go. $25k, just under 80,000 miles, a manual, and you’re welcome.

I had one as a rental just over a year ago because it was literally the only vehicle they had.

After 2 days, I wanted to jump the median and drive head-on into a tractor trailer.  I’ve never hated a car so much.