If it’s been customized for a wheelchair/lift/etc? They’ll be lucky if it’s that short of a window. It’s more likely 2 months to get paid plus several months for the vehicle to be bought/modified appropriately.

That’s a terrible idea. You should read the thread on my comment discussing the cost, and why hitting them with a lifetime of debt is a bad idea.

Can we ban the Navy from purchasing any more ships until they can successfully audit themselves, and account for the billions of dollars which have gone missing? 

Hm. That’s a mistake I know better than to have made. I wonder if it was auto-correct, if I just wasn’t thinking about it?

And really, this isn’t a commentary upon intellect, but a commentary upon a region known for not caring about dental health. If you don’t believe me, read into the dentists that were begging for…

If this truck is as nice as it looks, then I honestly think it’s worth about $10-15k. If you disagree, try finding one of these in good shape. It’s easier to find a living person with a full set of teeth in the Appalachia’s. Yes, rusted out, or mildly rusty examples can be had for $1-5k all day long, but taking the…

Indeed. I don’t know if it’s a cultural difference, or maybe an effort to place nice first, or what, but I would’ve sent it via lawyer.

This is what I was going to reply with. “You know what’s more unbelievable? Fancy David.”

Fancy Alanis? I anxiously await the Fancy-off battle between you and Fancy Kristen.

I would agree, other than the fact that I think there’s a need for a dealership to undergo a punitive price on this, beyond social media shaming. What he’s asking for is, honestly, fair. If this were me, that letter would’ve been delivered by a lawyer to their general manager, and been the basis for a lawsuit against…

Take your star, you awful creature.

Am I required to have a doctorate in Dentistry to buy one, or are they for sale to anyone?

I don’t know if “tired old humor” was an intentional pun, but it gave me a nice spin. :) 

Microtransactions. Exactly what I’m looking for in my car’s infotainment system.

I regularly see a car like this at the local grocery store. I thought at first it was a homeless person living in it, but then I realized that it couldn’t be: there’s nowhere for the person to sleep. It’s filled with boxes and boxes of paperwork (the kinds of thing a homeless person would likely ditch in order to have…

The answer, to me, is to take something vintage and overhaul it, like this:

There’s a silver one that I see running around regularly in the summer which is probably in a similar mileage range. It’s neat looking, but clearly a summer DD, as it’s got door dings, and the paint is sun-worn. Part of me is sad, but most of me loves that it’s actually driven.

How are leases destroying the auto industry?

I appreciate your prefixing that with ‘my opinion is,’ since usually I see this stated as a “this is the only way things should be done, and get off my lawn!”-style post, and while I would generally agree with your course of action, there are outliers.

When I bought my (then brand-new) Jeep GC, gas was close to $5/gal, and the dealership begged me to take a V8 instead of the V6. They had 2-3 V6's on the lot, one of which was spoken for, and the about twenty v8's, none of which were moving. They offered to sell me a higher-trim level V8 for less than the V6 I bought,…

Yeah. I’ve been restricting my searches to mostly trucks with over 125k miles. I’m finding that the ones which have been driven that much were actually used as trucks, and not just mall crawlers. Far fewer lift kits, and far more fifth-wheel hitches (not that I need one, but that I’ll take one used for hauling a…