A quick Google says that they range from mildly alkaline to as acidic as a PH of 2 - which WILL melt your skin off eventually. Though for those, the 200F water will kill you first. Seems the highly acidic ones are the hot ones. So chances are, this one wasn’t particularly acidic.

Idiocracy was not meant to be a documentary, yet here we are.

105F is barely hotter than the typical hot tub. I doubt the water was “melt your skin off” acidic (though there ARE hot springs in Yellowstone that are literally boiling hot and nearly that acidic). I would be more concerned with crashing into one of the alligator-filled canals around me. At least there, you won’t get…

Jaguar had a good run. I will miss them when they are gone.

Historically, the way the industry has generally worked is that “MSRP” is set rather higher than the price that the automaker really expects to sell the car for. And occasionally dealers got lucky and a car was either really hot and didn’t need to be discounted, or they had a rube come in and say “I want that one, how…

For whatever reason, Toyota is building VERY few Siennas. So yes, they are very hard to get, and sell before they come off the truck. With markups. So I would call that just as normal as the latest hot sportscar having a markup. Don’t want to pay it, buy a Pacifica. There are LOTS of those with nice discounts on them.

Smart criminals don’t get caught.

Love the interior, like but don’t love the exterior, at least in that light. HATE the wheels. Can the black wheels thing end already? 

This car should have been available with a turbo from the factory from day 1. A WRX gets you a turbo AND AWD for only $2500 more, base price to base price. They certainly improved the engine from the awful original, but it is still a car begging for more power (and especially, more torque and better power delivery).…

Being an enthuisast has nothing to do with it. I know how business, in particular *resale businesses* work though many years of comparable experience. It’s really not hard to play this game as a buyer as long as you have realistic expectations. You aren’t getting a deal on a scarce car anymore than you will get a deal…

I don’t believe you. I travel all over the country for work. I have homes in Maine and Florida. Dealers EVERYWHERE are advertising discounts.

ROFL - awesome. And as a bonus, maybe you can get a contact high. “Breath deep, it’s free”.

I’ve owned my ‘11 328! wagon from new - 13 years now. The only thing I have had to replace on my dime is the battery - at nine years old. I’ve only had my ‘11 128i for five years, but it is proving similarly anvil-like. I had to replace the antenna due to sun damage.

A point that seems to be lost among many. For sure the Republicans are getting some court decisions that align with their wants and dreams, particularly around the actions of the bureaucratic state that the Constitution never really contemplated, but the Supremes are by no means rubber-stamping everything they want.…

Because there weren’t two entrenched political parties back then. They did not foresee the rise of the two-party system 50+ years later (and what those parties are and represent has changed massively in the past 175 years too). There really were no political parties when the Constitution was written, just a bunch of…

Why bother with somebody else’s inevitably half-assed frankencar. Just buy an e91 BMW that is a better drive and came from the factory with a manual in the first place. More usefully sized too. And an instrument panel that isn’t idiotic.

I can assure that when my local dealerships had *zero* new cars to sell, they were not making record profits.

Because dealerships save the automakers almost unfathomable amounts of money, and massively spread risk. Sales and service are *expensive*.

More Daimler management... The Germans really aren’t good at playing with others after an invasion.

They really weren’t right back to the ‘60s.