I read this article with a giant sigh. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO CONVOLUTED? Every damn show is trying to be Game of Thrones. Like The Witcher, which would have been a perfectly fine show as “Henry Cavill being sexy and killing monsters” but instead tacked on an incomprehensible plot and mythology that made the…

I did too, but I don’t remember it being a PITA. Took about 15 minutes, tops.

In my state (MO) dealers can’t sell used cars without a current inspection. Licensed dealers can issue a temporary tag, but to get actual plates you have to take a title application with the old title (signed by the dealer) yourself to the DMV (and also pay all of the sales tax yourself, in cash). DMV will issue you…

A presuit settlement demand is...pretty normal and not “blackmail.”

Just for giggles, I submitted my DD for an online quote from one of the big national used car retailers. I was given a price of $1,200.00. All of the online listings for the same car are in the $10,000-12,000.00 range (I’d place mine at the lower end due to mileage). So, yeah, they’re making a real nice profit.

I had a CX-5 as a rental a couple of months ago. The non-turbo 4 is pretty meh. I’ve owned Mazdas before, so I would be interested in the turbo version. That infotainment system, though...the rental person had to give me a tutorial on how to use it, and even after driving the car for two weeks it was not at all…

My first girlfriend had a 76 Nova, albeit not with the fancy roof and only the 305 v8. It was a piece of junk. Not even the nostalgia of young love could persuade me to buy one.

will not click on slideshows on general principle

It seems to me that a fairly simple workaround, that the Carvanas of the world should be getting right to any moment, is for Carvana to make you a short term $20K loan so that you can buy out the lease yourself, coupled with a contract to purchase the car from you immediately afterward for $23K. (Or for a finance…

My first car was a 1985 Pontiac Grand Prix. I am 100 percent confident that this car has enough squeaks and rattles to drown out the burble of the V8.

As I told a friend, this is a movie that is perfectly entertaining as long as you don’t think about it too much. It is formulaic and derivative, sure, and the emotional beats are utterly predictable, and the “twists” you can see coming from miles away, but it is well put together and does its job in such a way that…

It was corny as hell, but was mostly mindless middlebrow entertaining by-the-numbers sports movie.

Not buying, but selling. A couple of years ago, I was selling an old beater, a 1999 Honda Civic. It ran and drove fine but the A/C didn’t work, the trunk lock was broken (could still be opened from the inside trunk release, but not from the outside), and it had some battle scars from being driven by a teenager for a…

This is now on my shopping list. I don’t NEED a big-ass truck. I don’t tow anything, ever. But it would certainly be handy for the half a dozen or so times a year I need to transport a few bulky items. That it’s a hybrid, and at this price point, are huge plusses.

This is all part and parcel of the longtime overarching conservative political strategy of “create a fake moral panic so the people don’t notice the massive transfer of wealth to the upper class taking place right under their noses.”

Their job is to protect their members’ jobs, not consumer choice.

It is literally not possible to be rich and white in America and NOT be tied in some way to institutions with a racist past. It’s not Ellie Kemper’s fault she was born into such a family. 

What kind of collision results in both an airbag deployment, and also the right rear door (and only the right rear door) being repainted?

My dream two-car garage is the garage at our actual house, cleaned out of all the furniture and boxes of crap so that we can park our actual, boring daily driver cars (Honda Pilot, Volvo S60) in it. Someday, my dream will come true.

Gee I wonder if we should listen to these same corporate interests when they talk about the “uncertainty” of the research on climate change.