I made a comment to my team this morning that I must require some level of unique events to track time (‘2wks ago, when I was down in the MD office for the test’) because, since I’m not really doing anything*, everything blends together and I can’t pinpoint dates.  Maybe it’s interactions with people.  I ride my bike…

Unless things have changed drastically, owning an Esprit like that should be pretty painless if you turn your own wrenches. Just don’t break the transaxle.

I bought a pretty rough ‘86 for $5k years ago (15?). Ebay’d it for $8900 a number of months later. It was pretty fun.

That describes a drive my wife, daughter, and I took from Agra to Delhi in December. We were in some kind of minivan, it was dusk, and people, animals, cars, and tuktuks were everywhere. The driver would casually pull out, pass a swam of - everything - then swerve back in. Some of the tuk tuks drivers apparently liked…

Watch the big banks. They sent their people home when the administration was still no-big-dealing COVID-19. They (well, the 2 I’m familiar with) split into A/B teams for limited on-site work. Teams hand-off every 2 weeks (or whatever) with no personal interaction between them.

My friend’s golf club did the same for paper products and cleaners.  Win-win, as the restaurant suppliers are hurting and don’t have a good direct-to-consumer mechanism.

That’s actually pretty nice work for random tech at a chain store IMHO.

People can’t wrap their minds around the time component.  You might point out that NJ has had more COVID deaths in six weeks than the past three years combined for seasonal flu.

That sucks.  Sorry to hear it.

All this screws the little guy the most. Do you think JPMorganChase is going to push 234k employees to go to the office because the Orange Man said so? No way. They moved everyone they could out of the offices before he even admitted there was a problem, as did mine. My wife works for a company with 250k employees.…

I finally installed an adblocker on my home laptop because you simply could not use the site anymore.  I whitelist everyone BUT Jalopnik.  I really don’t want to but it’s that or don’t read it at all.  Which will be the final outcome, I guess.

That sounds a little like Porsche’s Slate Gray, which I really liked on my 996 GT3 but others described as “silver with some shit stirred in”.  :)

I wish I had thought of that when I bought my Golf Sportwagen.  They put it on crooked!  Ah well, one less thing to get pulled over for, I guess.  Or maybe incentive to get a GTI or R front bumper?  Hmmmm...

You didn’t do a full analysis. If you pay off at 60 months, then start putting the payment into savings, at 84 months you have $13,800. I come up with 14,400 for your approach so $600 to the good - after 7 years.

The median household income is $62k-ish.

They had them in NJ in ‘15 when I leased my old one.  Decent selection.  Noone wanted them.

Exactly. There are THREE of them on AutoTrader within 100 miles of me. VW has no interest in selling one more e-golf than they have to.

“man, I’ve always wanted to do something like that.”

A friend of mine used to sell motorcycles.  He told me that buying in the off-season (when I thought the bargains would be) made it tougher to get a deal.  He had all the time in the world to work on the deal.  On a busy spring/summer day, he might, assuming stock was good, sell something quick and cheap just to move…

Similarly, the 1995 base stripper 318iT was $19,900. $34250 today, or $1000 less than the incomparably better 230i, which has a better 0-60 time than a 1995 M3!