Exactly. Same deal in New Hampshire - if I moved over the border I would not pay state income or sales tax, but my property tax bill would triple. And I would have fewer government services and generally worse roads.

You and folks in the handful of other states with no income tax that still charge sales tax will be all over this nice new provision of the tax law. The other states not so much other than in rare instances.

On Federal taxes? Kind of, sort of. You can deduct state and local sales tax paid or state and local income tax paid, but not BOTH. So if you live in a state with no income tax, or you paid a TON of sales tax for some reason, or had very little income tax, yes this is true, but in most cases you will not want to…

Not true in all states.

If it is the sort of car they would re-sell, most dealers will buy your car from you outright. But you are only going to get auction value for it, which is likely less than what you would get even as a trade-in.

I just sold my '13 Abarth to CarMax. I really didn't expect to, I just happened to need to be in the area of the closest one, and figured what the heck, might as well see what they would give me. Which turned out to be $13,500 - well over "book trade-in" per all the auto sites. Which was within the realm of what I was…

There are only a handful of vehicles that are sold in the US for police use. The police are not going to purchase something that isn't factory made for the job. As the old joke from the movie Blues Brothers goes - "cop motor, cop brakes, cop suspension, cop radiator, etc., etc., they are MUCH heavier duty vehicles…

Imagine taking 2015 tech back to merely 1915... Only 100 years ahead of us might be mind-blowing.

Whole or via wood chipper?

The whole "don't want to be stuck with the maintenance" thing is such a tired red herring. People lease these because they can afford to buy a new car every few years, and leasing is the most efficient way to do it. The biggest cost of a car like this is depreciation. Repairs and maintenance are rounding error by…

If one of these cars has ever seen salt, it will be a rolling rust issue. Absolute world-champion rot-boxes to give Italian cars a run for their money. With the worst part being they tend to hide it pretty well.

A friend of mine rented a V6 Camaro and took it to one of the local autocrosses. Engine seized up after 5-6 runs, right on the course. Turns out, it was a couple quarts of oil low - he swears the oil light never lit, or he would have shut it down then (I think he was just not paying attention). After letting it cool…

Not really stall. Usually they get stuck on the tracks - the tracks are elevated for drainage purposes, so there is a sharp ramp up and over them in the road. A long low truck goes up and over and gets hung up. Or the idiot truck driver tries to beat the train through the crossing...

Seems simple enough. There should be my money, the other half's money, then the house money. Each is responsible for 1/2 the monthly common expenses, savings, and investment program, whatever is left over is that persons to do with as they please. Proportionate to relative income if needed. No different than…

This is why I don't get pickup trucks. For 99% of the stuff that I would want an open bed for, I would not want to ding up my fancy truck. So to me it makes WAY more sense to either own or rent a trailer for those times when you need a load of crushed rock or mulch or whatever nasty substance. You can even make your…

It's for aerodynamics and thus fuel economy.

My Grandparents had a succession of Suburbans through the 70's to mid-80's, used for towing campers mostly. Grandfather had the first one (a 3dr) as a company truck and bought it from the company as he liked it so much. The last couple were diesels, and I took my driver's license test in one of those beasts in '86. I…

It's called British character son, keeps the upper lip stiff.

Both. :-)

AWD and automatic only in the US for the 328i/328d wagons. Otherwise I would have bought one, as I very much like the f31. And yes, equipped the way I would want one, $55K.