1st gen Volts are literally the *BEST* everyday used car value on the US market right now, bar none. Not only are they nice (regular) cars in every way, they’re sub-$10k cheap, damn near bulletproof reliable, have a fraction of the maintenance costs of non-PHEV competitors, and pretty much pay their own monthly…

Perhaps your comment is /s, but the OP’s was certainly hyperbole.

This! “Temporary Employee” is a legal definition for workers, not just a colloquial term. And it is beyond legally dubious to categorize a three year employee as one. Make them part-time, if their job doesn’t warrant a full benefits package in the employer’s eyes, but they need to be a “full organic employee” after…

I certainly don’t think they should provide that level of compensation for menial jobs (though I know some do) and I’m generally not pro-union, but at the same time “Temporary Employee” is a legal definition, and it is legally dubious at best to categorize a three year employee as one. Make them part-time, if their…

I’m not sure where you’re getting that demo. I travel extensively through the southern Midwest states for work and nearly every blue collar guy under 40 drives a domestic pickup, especially those in the farm industry. In TX and OK the white collar Millennials drive them too, but they’re $80k mall crawlers not work…

Labor law, trade, and industry safety regulations all deal with how union member employees and their employers interact, or how the employer is regulated by the government in the context of the workplace environment it provides to its union employees. This is not that. This is a union sticking its nose into the AOR…

The Millennials on the coasts don’t want to drive domestics, to an extent (tons of Millennial pony car drivers in SoCal). But the Millennials in the heartland, mountain, and big sky states very much want to drive Big Three’s trucks. 

You’re correct that this is relevant to the task of urban fire fighting, but its not within the bailiwick of a union, whose mission should be solely to advocate for its members with respect to their employer-employee relationship. Regulation of roadside infrastructure is a concern for the city council, transportation…

Add to that too much superfluous, gimmicky tech in the Mustang—settings, configurations, modes, variable color schemes, 4-level deep infotainment menus, etc.

Many buyers want a basic, analog sports car with the legally required items (backup camera) plus Bluetooth, and maybe Android Auto/Apple CarPlay.

with 480-700+HP does it matter? ;-)

I understand the difference between a documentary and a drama. I listed those specific movies because they are dramatizations of real events in history, known as docu-dramas or historical dramas. In most of them, the actors portrayed actual people, *NOT* fictional characters, as you assert—see Henry Hill, James…

So then please tell us you’ve never patronized a single Scorsese movie, Sicario 1 and 2, Silence of the Lambs, The French Connection, Heat, Cannonball Run 1 and 2, or any other movie that “exists because of illegal and dangerous activity”?

I’ve never rented an Airbnb first hand, but I have stayed at a couple rented by family, with no issues. There are some great ones out there and some great hosts, but each one is its own animal and the differences vary widely across the global portfolio, up to and including outright fraudulent listings. You never truly…

They’re the ones who conflate objective interior quality with subjective style and appearance. Looking at you, C7 interior naysayers...

Respectfully, your numbers are WAY out of the box. I live in San Diego—have lived here since 2007. Lived in LA and the Seattle area before that, going back to 2001. So I’m quite in tune with costs of living in all the expensive west coast cities, save for SF, which may as well be in its own parallel monetary dimension.…

Depends on what your priorities are. But yes, I think it’s more than I’d want to spend in the given scenario. Especially when I know that GREAT new cars can be had for significantly less.

Everyone here, including me, has been a bit vague in our terms, so let me be more specific. The example was a $50k/year income. It wasn’t clear if it was intended to mean total household income for a family, or a single person’s income.

A financially responsible single person making $50k/year anywhere in the US will no…

Zero money from my parents and paid-off my own relatively moderate student loans.  My only leg up in the housing market was being VA eligible, as a veteran.

I’m not saying it’s a fiscally wise idea, but someone making $50k/year should not be *struggling* to make 60-month loan payments on a $35k car. If they are, they’re overextended somewhere else in their finances. Further, no US household making $50k in total income should be having kids, period. At that income tier,…

LA or not, if you’re not able to make $600/mo work on $65k/year then you’re overextended somewhere else in your finances (or you have an unusually large retirement contribution set up). Until my current job, I made $35k-$75k since graduating college and my new cars all fell between $30k-$45k, all performance cars.…