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Either way, cops have repeatedly proven that they don’t deserve any benefit of the doubt. Until there’s absolutely clear footage of Reed firing first, I’m gonna assume that the cops are lying.

Chicago police claim…

GTFO with $9500. In any sensible timeline this would be a $2500 beater at best. 2WD, grungy inside and out, and broken. 

I can see the wraparound windshield was a 50's element and the interior is early 60's space race, but the rest of the proportions are so far out of whack I can’t believe they committed it to metal and CF. It would have worked better as an exuberant pickup truck. Or maybe a full wagon.

Had a co-woker who always got designer things. They earned over $100K a year and complained they couldn’t afford a nicer trim on their new vehicle, which was about $1000 more than their current trim. $1K on a 36 mo payment would have been less than $30/mo. I can’t imagine how thin their credit must have been stretched.

The stretch where the typical car loan was less than 1% was a no-brainer.  You can do a whole lot more with your cash than invest it in a depreciating asset, plus you have the financial safety net if something unexpected happens.  I can see maybe paying cash now (although rates are dropping) but the “never finance a…

That’s how you do it. Cheap or free money and/or short terms. 

I’m just confused on this “his” decisions and “my” decisions regarding large financial decisions. I know not all married couples have combined finances, but the idea that a married person makes such a big financial decision in a vacuum is just silly. If you have your car repo’ed and your credit score takes a big hit,…

Her husband financed $78k for a 2 year old truck? I can’t tell if this is rage bait, or I’m just this out of touch with the general population.

And talk honestly with them about money.

All of these videos have a strong stench of fakeness, an attempt to get their name (and more importantly face) “out there” so they can become, say, an internet celeb. Social media fame chasers have made me skeptical of 99.4% of the crazy shit that’s supposed to be legit.

This is my brother and sister in law, they buy all this expensive stuff because they see my wife and I buying or doing things and then they complain about how broke they are and can’t afford to live in the big house with new cars with a new kid on the way. My wife and I do a lot of traveling and have nicer cars(not…

When I lived just outside Atlanta (Cobb County) there really was this ridiculous notion of social climbing and HAVING to keep up with the Jones. Or I guess you end up in Real Housewife purgatory? I knew women who made under $20/hour insist they had to have a Lexus SUV because otherwise the other moms would mock them.…

This is why you need to hug your kids so they don’t grow up, make stupid decisions in their life and then feel the need to brag about it publicly.

FFS if one trying to sell something, vacuum the floor for 5 seconds before the photo. This thing gives me the shag willies. 

A high 5 second 0-60 is now inadequate for auto reviewers. Wow.

While we’re at it, if your car comes with ridonkulous 19s or 20s, try to downsize - better ride and performance, potentially lighter wheel/tire combos, less expensive, shorter gearing etc - lots of benefits if you can accept the looks.

Just throw a dealer plate and thin blue line flag on it and you’ll be ok.

To be fair, I don’t think it’s possible to find any old American tradition that wasn’t either founded on racism or had long standing racist practices, but it is interesting to see the weird ways that impacted things still popular today. A certain dance style become a nationwide mandate because a rich racist confused…