^^^ needs more stars

Am I the only one who felt the book was manipulative? It just seemed cheap with its emotional tugging.

GSL-SE is the best driving car made up to that point in time. So, please find one.

More of a “C” shape on the new ones, instead of a flat blade. Every styling update to the S550 has been a step back (long nose, fussy tail lights.) 2015 was perfect then they keep stepping back from that.

I’ll grant they’re in the style/era. But those are a Mercury/Buick level execution of the same idea. I’m sure they’re fine wheels, but stylistically they are not on the same level.

Get the Liberty, it’s a good Jeep. It never deserved the derision. I’ve owned CJs, TJs, XJs, Liberties, and a few Grands, the KJ Liberty was a fine Jeep. For that matter so was the WK if you really have issues with the Liberty.
The KK Liberty, on the other hand, felt amazingly heavy, slow, and soft. I don’t know why…

I’ve tried to find an answer to this but can’t: I moved from a large employer with an HSA plan (that actually worked really well) to a small employer with a plan that isn’t called high deductible, and there’s no HSA with it.
I still have my original HSA account though, and am spending out of it (to pay deductables on…

I’d like to know about interior materials/road noise/features and toys vs. price/value.
Mid-$40's will buy you a lot of nice conventional vehicles, a mid-tier Continental perhaps. I’ve been in a Tesla 3 that was priced in the mid-$40's, and it felt like a nice enough compact luxury sedan. It didn’t feel like it should…

~8k Jeeps (rough number due to variable fuel load and unknown weight of gear in them. Right ballpark due to scale visits)
~4k trailer (per the title)
~7k truck (per regular visits to a scale while working)

Yep. 20k GCWR limit and I was just under 19k (20k rounded for the story.) As I said, I learned that was too much for me. And for the trucks brakes when the trailer wasn’t helping enough on that grade. (On flat ground the tb setting felt fine, no push no drag... for the grade I should have dialed in more.)

I was 1,000 lbs under rated limit. But, yeah, not at all comfortable stopping that much weight. 5,000 or 6,000 on the trailer is no sweat, 11-12k was too much. Pulling it was no problem though. 5.9 Cummins is legendary for a reason.

I was pulling at just under 20k lbs GCW (Ram 2500, two Jeeps, gooseneck trailer) when my brakes decided to get hot coming West out of the Eisenhower tunnel. I ended up ~200yds short of that ramp, had just enough brakes to stop it once I realized it was no good. I was: coast to 40mph, pump... coast to 40, pump... coast…

As several have responded, I’ll add to the pile and point out that Sync3 passes through to Google (or whatever PA you have on your Android) or Siri without issue.

Next week: Carlos Ghosn arreested for being arrested, thereby depreciating Nissan stock price and Japanese consumer confidence to an impact of ¥80,000,000,000 to the Japan GDP.

Next month: Ghosn arrested for being arrested for...

Japan has this shit down.

I won’t fight you on your Marco take, but I grew up in the 80's/90's and Michael was definitely a top tier driver, and definitely cursed at Indy.

There’s a difference in the financial planning that goes into it though. Your math as a consumer should be different. The mileage commit becomes even more firm, I would suppose (leases are still firm, but will often forgive if you purchase) and I would expect other things to factor in... it’s a different animal,…

That’s an argument that rests on seeing anything above minimally viable as luxury. It’s worked for sports stadiums, it works for cars where minimally viable is mandated by the government. But for things that are debatably necessary in modern life, and not regulated, you’re basically arguing for dystopia. The outcome…

If you can’t buy it in the end, is it still a lease? Just sounds like renting with more steps.

I honestly thought you were a pen name; like FK, a fever dream of one of our regular Jalopnik writers. I have thoroughly enjoyed your articles, Kavi, and will miss reading them here.

Reporting on Ghosn has mentioned for months that Greg Kelly showed up on the day of the arrests on a separate, corporate, plane. I don’t buy the “just found out” line at all.