OOOOORRRR they could have given us the effing GTI or R wagon with a manual transmission that we were all begging for. (And many of us would have bought from the dealer the week it was available.)

Wouldn’t the mortgage be even better, then? Either you’re gaining 1% per year after paying cash, or you’re losing 2% per year on the mortgage while the money you would have spent earns 7-10% per year in the meantime.

This is incredibly myopic, while i get the “nice” feeling of having extra money each week since you don’t have to pay a mortgage, it also completely removes your leverage and likely does significant damage to your long term wealth. Essentially that “extra” money you have to spend is the present value payments of your…

If you want a good Clarkson fix right now, I highly recommend Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon. The premise is him trying to farm the 1,000 acres he bought in the mid 2000s, and which until 2019 a real farmer farmed for him. It’s Clarkson at his self-deprecating best, with much of the obnoxiousness that came through in later…

Why is this article so bitter?

Why is this article so bitter?

There are two benefits to the “floating tablet” type design that will ensure it remains popular: 1) it frequently allows the screen to be mounted higher, which puts it closer to the driver’s line of sight and 2) a separate screen is easier to swap out, either for the manufacturer when they want to upgrade or for the…

Depends on the candy bar’s density. Don’t take a Butterfinger right out of the freezer and expect to keep all your teeth, but as I noted below: a frozen Reese’s Cup is a heavenly delight that shouldn’t damage anything.

If you (not you personally, Claire, but rather readers of this article) aren’t putting Reese’s Cups in your freezer overnight for a chilly AM snack, then I don’t know what you’re doing with your life.  You need to level the fuck up and start living your lives like adults.  

I understand why cops might feel jumpy and scared. Any second, a simple traffic stop could easily turn into a shootout and they might not be going home tonight. That is a reality. Any human would be intimidated by that.

The rest of the car looks great. The wheels look like ass, which makes the car as a whole look worse than it would otherwise. It didn’t look good on the SN95, and it doesn’t look good on the S550.

Yea man, these are far from good looking wheels and the SN95 had other wheel options that were far more attractive. The three spoke polished aluminum option on the V6, the five spoke polished on the GT, and the five spoke polished available on the Cobra are all way way better looking.

I guess hindsight is 20/20 but a simple masking tape + permanent marker label would have solved this problem without costing any additional money. I also just looked it up and you can get a cheap urn for like $50. Although, I suppose that might not help much without a label, unless you had different style urns for the…

Commensurate* salary. I think the salaries you and I both live on already allow us to commiserate about not being able to afford said jet.

Sunflower seeds.

Sunflower seeds. The detail work of shelling/eating them keeps me awake and alert on a long trip almost as much as the disgusting spit-cup reactions of my wife in the passenger seat next to me.

Or the car person on that show has a thing for Broncos and found the perfect way to end up with buying it off the production company for cheap afterwards.  ;)

FULL STEAM BOYS!!!

I just hope it comes with stability control as standard equipment. Nobody wants to spin - flat or otherwise - in their new truck.

It’s often not quite so simple. With a very large company, it can be difficult to only make a small amount of profit: even a small profit per transaction, or per worker, or per customer, translates to an immense profit overall. To not have an immense profit overall, you’d need an absolutely minuscule profit per…