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My grandmother passed last year during the height of the pandemic. Not covid specifically, as she was 98, but it might have contributed. My mother had been driving the Pilot since it was (almost) new, and my grandmother really liked it.

Mom didn’t like it. She likes pickups. So…

My wife and my mother would get together to kill me.

It drives like crap, gets absurdly bad fuel economy, and smells funny.

I realize since I am coming out of a Saab, these all seem like strange complaints.

I don’t understand the reference. I get the gist, but don’t know the source.

My parents just gave me their 64k mile 2008 Honda Pilot. I hate it.

But I’m going to drive it for at least 4-5 years, because this car market is nucking futs.

We should make it a contest! Like, whichever rich person commissions the most entertaining absurdity gets to be the last against the wall, come the revolution.

I kid.

But yeah, this is way better than other stuff. A good way to look at it, I think, is how many resources were consumed per unit of currency: not a lot,…

Look, I get that this is absurd in its excess. It certainly is environmentally irresponsible.

And yet... I don’t hate rich people because they are rich. Of all the things the obscenely wealthy could waste money on, this is pretty low on the offensiveness scale.

Because Elon Musk is too dumb to know when something is a bad idea, and too smart to listen to other people. Seriously, he’s like an idiot savant. When he gets shit right, he’s right all the way. But he has no clue that he has no clue about reality.

Came here for a Citroën DS, left disappointed.

Grady Smith on YouTube does some great work finding country music worth listening to.

When the light comes on, although if I can I will wait until first thing in the morning to get the most value for my dollar.

The Civic lost its original head gasket, and I just didn’t feel like fixing it. It was seriously beat up, too.

The Jaguar I sold, and I have no idea how many miles it had on it when it was totaled.*

The Saab still works, I just need to sell it. My mother and my wife decided my 4-year-old son didn’t need to be riding…

The fact it ignores Katy Perry’s ever changing hair colour bothered me. If this is pre-fame Katy, her hair should be mousy brown.

Thank goodness not a slideshow.

I put 333k on my 1990 Honda Civic, 250k on my 1991 Jaguar Sovereign, and 210k+ on my 1999 Saab 9-5. Not huge numbers, but I’m dedicated. The Saab got two cylinder head replacements in the last 60k, for example. Not gaskets, heads. And I have another spare one to go with the car when I…

I love this car. I want it in my life. But this is way too much money for a 30-year-old Camry, even with the Radwood tax.

Are facts not important? I thought that was the problem with Dolt 45 and his crew, a complete disregard for facts?

What is and isn’t an illegal machine gun is pretty important, as are suppositions about what the operators of the dealership did and did not know. Heck, that second bit could potentially be libel.

Jalopnik,…

Don’t we all believe that most car dealers are pretty much one step above organized crime, anyway? Or is that below organized crime? I can’t remember.

Criminal activity by car dealers doesn’t surprise me. But I normally would expect it to be related to their core business. So perhaps telling the employees to stop…

1. As has been pointed out, the post is misleading in characterizing the Aero Precision pistol as an illegal machine gun. The DIAS is the illegal machine gun, not the gun that houses it.

2. I doubt the dealership was running the guns, as it seems it was two employees of the dealership doing the illegal activity. There…

Just thought of another one. Happened around the same time, with the same group of reprobates.

We were down in Guadeloupe, docked in Pointe-à-Pitre. Now, there’s a volcano on Basse-Terre, and we thought we would go see it. Four of us had rented a car together, and set out following the signs.

None of us spoke French, or…