I get your point, but I like the reporting as it’s a tiny little bit of deterrence. Seeing what can happen at 100mph when you hit a tree is sobering (no pun intended).

This is the internet sir. The only reaction allowed is to either defend or condemn this in the most extreme manner possible.

It’s common on campuses with limited parking, yes.

“but screwing over EV owners while you do it is just peak asshole.”

Most EV owners are peak assholes themselves from experience regardless.  Not saying it’s right that he did it.  I award him two stars for how clever it was though.

Meh.  There’s a pretty solid chance those parking spots and chargers just sit empty most of the time.

As an EV owner, I hope his tweets lead to his car being impounded.

Yeah, $250 for an annual parking pass is fucking nothing. Dude needs to put his big boy pants on. UC Santa Cruz was 950$ a year, for a motorcycle pass. 

If you have to borrow money to buy a 4th gen Honda Prelude, my friend you do not have enough money to own a 4th Honda Prelude.

I cannot agree with such a broad statement. I’ve borrowed at least some money for every vehicle purchase over $10K in my life, because I have good credit and liquidating investments to sink cash into vehicles is generally poor financial decision making.

If your debts have lower interest rates than your (post-tax) returns on your investments, then buying with cash is not smart. E.g., look at car loan interest rates and compare with S&P 500 index returns over the last, say, three years.

My credit union will finance just about anything and, as long as you’re financing 90% or less of the NADA value, charge like 2.5% for a 36 month loan (I think 60 month may be 4.5%). A credit union account should always be something that a consumer has in their back pocket.

The 400z is coming in a manual, so there will be plenty of opportunity for that. The 370 is/was a good car, it just needed an update. 

Literally in the second paragraph:

And guys coming out from under rocks saying “Man, I was just about to buy one with a manual - SAVE THE MANUALS!!!”

Now that it is “dead” the internet is free to remember fondly about the vehicle.

Hell, I own a home, but the electricity going out to the garage is buried and we’ve put a lot of time and labor into the landscaping in our backyard (retaining walls, concrete work) that the idea of tearing it up up to run a new wire to handle a level 2 charger seems like too much trouble given our plan is to…

I am soooooo not blaming him. My point is I think he is wasted on stupid slideshows. I realize he doesn’t want to do them.

He isn’t the one who gets to make the decision on whether or not AOTD is a slide show. It’s been pretty clear from the beginning that G/O Media (the owners of all these sites) requires a certain number of articles a day be in that format. Jalopnik has chosen AOTD as the article to fill that requirement.

Good to see you have a normal article without a slide show.