The point of the article seems to be; At what point do you forgo submitting it to your insurance company and file a lawsuit? Makes sense that many people are unsure of where the tipping point lies.

You would do well to understand that the Patriot system was designed to shoot down planes. The fact that it was good enough to also intercept missiles was an unanticipated bonus. I would imagine that some reprogramming of the software was needed to adjust for the uprated requirements.

Good old 4-60 air conditioning:4 windows down at 60 mph.

I found out about the motion sensor a/c control around 1986 at a hotel in Detroit. I like it cold in my bedroom, so I set the a/c pretty low. I woke up in a sweat and as soon as I sat up, the a/c turned on. Took me a minute to figure it out. Pulled motion sensor off the wall and jumped the wires. Nice cool room for…

Hey. You do a “swoop and squat” in front of a bus, you deserve to get waffled.

Guy’s biggest mistake was not having David Tracy as his co-pilot.

I used to help a friend of mine on his used car lot in the late 80's/early 90's. Green cars were magnetic as in they stuck to the lot, never to leave.

No. Just their pockets.

The A-pillar, C-pillar and roof-line remind me of the current model Mustang. This might make for a good “pissed-off look body kit” for the Mustang.

I’ve been using the “What’s behind me is not important” line ever since I saw the movie. It’s especially upsetting to my passengers when I say it as I’m backing out of a parking space at the mall.

“David is consistently a fool, consistently making bad decisions and showing very little common sense. Consistently. It angers me.”

This era XJ6 was the first four door car that I ever liked and would still love to own one. To call the looks “classic” just don’t do it justice. The line, proportions, and scale are perfect.

Back in the 80's I used to help out on my buddy’s used car lot in Somerville, NJ. Green cars were poison. Every one he bought stayed, docked to the lot like a land-locked QEII.

It’s for those who feel that repairs aren’t expensive enough on the VW.

This is not necessarily a bad analogy. There wasn’t a day went by that I wasn’t telling my kids something to the effect that, “You didn’t come with a set of instructions and I’m making this up as I go along. I’m not always going to get it right, but I love you.”

WHen my wife and I had a similar conversation her response was, “Why? Do you want to disappoint two women at the same time?:

This was common knowledge back in the Pleistocene Age, when I was a kid. You could take a car at MSRP right from the lot, strip it and (exclusive of labor) sell the parts for significantly more than the car sold for new.

Running a PC with Chrome. Works just fine for me.

Mike FTW. This is America-a land of opportunity. The more money you, have the more opportunities exist. It’s his money-let him spend it as he sees fit. If anyone needs to justify this, they are overthinking it.

“...thankfully, there’s this one from Buick.”