Sadly true.

Have some perspective for the times. Sure, that ‘82 FI Camaro needed 7 seconds for 0-60. But a Porsche 911 (or a Ferrari 308 for that matter) was barely faster than that. My ‘82 Subaru, a perfectly normal family sedan for the times, needed about 13-14. My ‘84 Jetta GLI, a rocket ship of a small sporting sedan at the…

We pay for all those things too, we just pay it less efficiently, and/or in other ways. And a huge amount of what we pay goes into the pockets of the executives and shareholders of the organizations providing those services privately.

Unless you live in the ass end of nowhere this is wildly overblown. After she managed to scrape the side of her new car down a concrete post <facepalm>, my sainted elderly mother was without a car for the best part of two weeks last year while it was being fixed - and I was in Maine with my automatic car that she…

It has to be said “that’ll buff right out”.

I just read about that one this morning. WTF is wrong with these people?

Is Costco the ONLY place you can get gas? Because to hear some people it sounds like they have a monopoly on fuel pumps in CA.

If you think anyone is choosing to buy a house rather than rent a one-room apartment, simply so they can have a charger, you seriously need to see a therapist.

*She* is fabulous! Reminds me very much of a dear friend of the family when I was a kid, Ernestine French. She was 85 if she was a day when I was in high school, drove a red Saab Turbo, and I do mean she DROVE it - like a bat out of hell (“what cop is going to give a sweet little old lady a ticket”?). Was a sports car …

That makes two of us. Though in my experience, kids from REALLY religious homes tended to be the wildest - they were just also REALLY good at not getting caught.

I completely, 100% agree with you. I was a danger behind the wheel of that slow-ass Subaru I drove in HS, but I would have been a Hell of a lot more dangerous behind the wheel of something with 4X the power.

It didn’t add anything new. It was slightly different, but every version of an airplane is aerodynamically different. “They all do that”, the Max just did it slightly more. It was in no way a big deal, and nothing to do with what the media latched onto that got endlessly repeated. “Wieght and balance issues”, “it’s…

They are entirely adequate. It’s a decently big four with entirely adequate power. Put your foot to the floor and keep it there, you will be just fine. It’s  only marginally slower than the Camry it’s based on, and faster than most sports cars of the ‘80s.

Inflation (and justifiable popularity) is a bitch - this is just what a decent one of these costs today. NP for one in nice shape.

My area of Florida actually has shockingly good sidewalk infrastructure all over the area. When it’s not hotter and moister than the Devil’s underwear (I am sitting here as the daily summer thunderstorm rolls over from the Gulf), it is actually very walkable\bikeable. And roundabouts where they make a ton of sense. Rt…

The oversight is going to hurt a LOT more than the fine, even if they get some minimal veto as to who the overseer is. That sort of thing is a gigantic pain in the ass for a company to deal with.

I VERY much agree that they are an end run around taxi regulations. And that is bullshit.

I agree with this ruling. Certainly they meet the very well-established criteria for being considered independent contractors in my home state of Maine. My gripe is that they are an end run around *taxi* regulations, because let’s face it, they are running a taxi service, calling it “ride share” and saying it’s…

It doesn’t matter. Unless you bought it *fully* depreciated, as I did with my Range Rover ($75K off MSRP pays for a LOT of repairs), depreciation will still outpace repairs for a LONG time in the majority of cases.

Have you listened to him talk? I would substitute “delusional” for stupid.