Canadian cops aren’t used to being that ‘handsy’. 

Unless you’re specifically looking for an Evo, or for some reason an Evo X, there’s way more fun to be had for that kind of money.

Amtrak is a government service.

My only guess is that running a business that skirts local laws at every chance is VERY expensive.

The law has never fairly punished anyone (broadly speaking) for negligent manslaughter on the streets of anywhere that I’ve ever heard of.

As someone elsewhere eluded to, when a car is older, it really doesn’t take much for a car to be ‘totaled’ and a couple grand of body work is almost nothing.

Sounds like you need a VPN. 

Or how much over-spray is everywhere.

Have you ever known businesses that lose billions of dollars to stay afloat?

I’m usually the first one to point out that DUI enforcement, like everything else, has turned into revenue generation.

What they really need to do is have a ‘most obvious easy route’ option.

That sounds to me like he replaced an item that had reached the natural end of its life cycle.

He’s probably looking for ‘street cred’.

People that go out and buy new phones are only doing it so people see them with it. Just like most people with their new car purchases.

No kidding. Says fuel injection is the devil, proceeds to recommend the most insanely complicated carbuerated systems ever imagined. I’ll take a mess of wires over a rats nest of vacuum lines any day.

Where I live we don’t have yearly inspections, just when ownership changes, you can’t discount how quickly a car turns into parts or scrap when it needs $2k of repairs to get insured. That car with a value of <$3k inspected turns into a $500 parts car, or scrap. 

My brother drives an early 2006 Tacoma that’s awaiting a replacement frame. He would like to get a new one because the modern equivalent trim level is a bit nicer than his with unheated cloth seats. Then there’s the fact he hasn’t had a car payment in almost a decade.

A brand new car would be nice. But I’d rather drive a 5 year old car with AC. Even though as a fellow Canadian I only use the AC 2 days a year.

You would have to be out cold to sleep through landing and re-compression.

Both cars have their merits.