“it’s stupid, it will be mismanaged and only cause inconvenience for rich, not so rich and poor people regressively.”

Down with tachometers!!

You must’ve had a slow one! We hit an eye-watering fifteen mph at mine

It still blows my mind that I took the MSF, rode shitty Buells that never got above 10mph, and was handed my license at the end to go ride in 75mph highway traffic.

You actually believed that bit. I’ve talked to many people over the years that bought it and cite that as evidence to confirm their own biases, so you aren’t the first to fall for it.

My buddy in college drove a chevy truck from the late 70's or early 80's. Not in a cool way- in a “your grandfathers truck with 350,000 miles has been sitting in our back yard since he died and it’s what you’ll take to college, and the family of rats under the seat are gratis” way.

Anyways, we all came back from summer…

“Paying a non-negotiated price is literally treating you like a mark for cars.”

This strikes me as the kind of thing you go out into the garage and build over the course of a few years when you just can’t bear the idea of sitting on the couch and streaming Gilmore Girls reruns with your wife. But other than for that save-your-sanity value, there’s no way you’re ever going to see more than pennies…

I get the feeling that the sentimental value (with the mentioned connection to a friend) is much higher than the actual value. If you’re a dude who likes dragging this around to car shows and just letting it idle for other Boomer Dads to listen to or have such a spacious man cave that this thing would fit in it...I…

It’s the MB Tex. That stuff is damn near the most indestructible interior material ever made. Yeah, it’s vinyl but it’s good vinyl. I get the MB Tex over leather every time. 

perfect ‘high school kid’ car -  cheap enough that when it’s wrecked, it pays off in insurance claim, safe enough to operate, and big enough to haul a set of drums, guitars and amps to school/gig/friends while staying off the police radar. NP all day.   

I heard this said about Whiskey. Drink the whiskey you like the way you like it. You want to pour some Pappy in a glass with Dr. Pepper go for it. It’s your money and your whiskey. Who cares what someone else thinks about your, clearly perverted, way of drinking whiskey.

When I saw 317k I was ready to hit no dice, but this is a seriously well maintained and pampered car.   I think of the E class as the goldilocks of the MB line-up. The C-class suffers from cost-cutting measuers. The S-class suffers from complications and expensive stuffs breaking. The E class is typically the most…

Lots of fun in general is uncomforatble and complicated—taking on the challenge is what makes it fun. My brother is a skier—he spends lots of money to strap slick sticks to his feet and slide down a mountain. That is uncomfortable and complicated. My son, 10, loves climbing trees and sitting on random branches—much…

You seem fixated on the price and are having a hard time coming to terms that it’s not about the price.

It’s ok to say, I deserve to be comfortable and to be able to do a 7 hour drive without feeling like I just ran a marathon. It’s OK to say, yeah, I really don’t want to “feel the road” because the road is a poorly maintained piece of garbage. It’s OK to say, I want my partner not to hate driving with me. :)

For a lot of people, Just having A PRICE is a feature. Haggling sucks. It just does. It adds anxiety and awfulness to a process that does not need it. And it justifies the need for car salesmen. Which are 100% unnecessary. Because we have the internet, we’ve already done the research.

“Priuses suck.”

Honestly, most of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever heard about cars comes from enthusiasts and is best summed up as “there’s only one way to enjoy cars, and that’s my way.”

A+ Archer reference.