Great post. Capitalism can be constrained and directed by taxation and regulation, except when the owners of capital constrain and direct the authors of taxation and regulation. Corruption is giving capitalism a bad name.

Yep that’s how I bought my recent car. I searched all the dealers in the area for what I wanted and what had been in stock for ages but not in service via our dealer network database. Ended up finding one that had been around for 8+ months. Emailed the dealer, said I would be coming later that night for stock # 12345…

I’m tired of these f**king misleading titles. Police are not “monitoring your neighborhood” with your video cameras. They are asking people to provide video when there is a nearby crime. I’ve registered my cameras with the police and they’ve sent me an email once for video (I didn’t have it. They waited too long).…

Happy Labor day bro. 

Cops are probably gonna be a whole lot less excited about this surveillance footage when it fills in the missing time when their body cams were “accidentally” shut off.

I wish this got bumped into the article, GREAT point and honestly one I didn’t think of. 

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

No worries. I'm off to troll a Cummins board with my grammar pedantry. 

Huge loss... what a badass woman. Rest in peace, Jessi.

I never realized until now just how much of a bad ass she is. Rest In Peace Jessie.

This is actually a great suggestion, and Torch would be a great host. He has an incredibly wide range of interests, and it could be a travel/cultural exploration show through a car lens (sort of how Bourdain did travel/cultural exploration through a food lens).

Here is my pitch, Torchinsky’s Tour.

One day, I was driving a VW Golf TDI diesel in Vermont, and stopped at a self-service gas station. When I began filling the tank, a man from three rows over started frantically running towards me waiving his hands.

Yellow = off-road diesel, no? (Tractors, excavators, generators, equipment in general) Too much sulfur content to run in road-legal engines without expensive repercussions, one way or another, if you’re the cheaty type. 

Diesel USED to be the yellow nozzle, not green. Green is fairly recent as far as I’ve been able to tell.

I dunno if you’ve seen the news in the last 30+ years, but we’re closer to third world than first world.

It may have been a BP gas station. When they have both nozzles at the pump, they tend to use green for the gas nozzle. I understand green features prominently in their branding, but it’s idiotic when green is used to signify diesel everywhere else.

Only compare the price of diesel to premium, because if you weren’t driving a diesel VW it would be a GTI.  

Would have liked to see Mazda stick with and evolve the Mazda5. Good size for the city.

So Toyota basically wants to make a modern version of the 1st generation Mazda MPV, which could be equipped with part-time 4WD system with a locking center differential and a 4 corner load leveling suspension that would raise ground clearance in 4WD.