You don’t need full coverage if it’s the other driver’s fault, as their insurance would still payout the value of the vehicle if it cost more to fix than the vehicle was worth.

Lol, zero accidents that they’ll admit to. Due to a screw up, they leaked 5 gallons of radioactive coolant in to the sub requiring them to ventilate the surface and treat 5 crew members for radiation.

Aaaaaahahahahahahahaha. Doubling down on the stupid now? Suddenly the legal definition isn’t good enough because you’ve “never heard anyone” use that term?

Maybe, but I’ll settle for higher-priced programming charging more, and lower-priced programming charging less. Sports was an ungodly-expensive aspect of cable, and yet most people didn’t actually watch it. Something like $10 out of your cable bill went directly to ESPN, regardless as to whether you watched sports or…

Well, but the thing is that just because I can afford a $40,000 car doesn’t mean it comes anywhere close to “fuck you” money. And the longer I live, the less reasonable spending ~40% of your annual income on a car seems. I did the math a while ago about the cost of owning a car (say, a relatively conservative $5k/year…

Considering model year cars usually come out the fall (or even summer) before, there’s a good chance that this actually came from the Reagan years.

If this were $3k I’d be all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake.

For me it almost ticks a bunch of different boxes, but comes up short on each one, hence, No Dice.

Especially since a Tesla Plaid is faster to 60.

I honestly can’t fathom exactly how much money I’d need for $4,000,000 to be “fuck you” money.  Maybe somewhere around a billion dollars?  

I went to a suburban college (so relatively open spaces for parking), and you’re absolutely right about the nickle-and-diming bullshit. Ungodly expensive parking. I worked in the dining services, and we were expected to clear several million in revenue to put back in to the university’s accounts. Same with the…

Needs more than an inline 6 to be worth that price.

I’d guess any mid-size city in the US? Priced accordingly it would be the perfect little runabout for anyone who doesn’t need to go on the highway (or major arterial streets) for their job. It would probably suit my needs for ~80% of my driving, and it’s that low only because I like going to Costco and the *good*…

Depends on how competitive the market is. If there’s only one or two manufacturers left, sure, they’ll keep their monopolistic behavior and fuck over the consumer.

Naturally she’s probably a “5", with her clothes and makeup probably a “3", and with that attitude she’s somewhere deep in to negative territory.  

I’d buy that in a heartbeat.

FYI, much of the $10k is depreciation, not just car payments.

Yup.  It’s part of the reason why there are still shortages of things like outdoor sporting equipment now, because nobody wants to order a ton of stuff and then find that either a) their own products suddenly got far more expensive or b) their competitor’s products suddenly got far cheaper.  It’s insane.

The secret is that automakers don’t give a shit *what* the standards are as long as they’re predictable and applied across the board. If every manufacturer needs to hit a higher standard, then prices will increase for all of those vehicles and no manufacturer will be at a disadvantage to everyone else.