They don’t learn any lessons that way. To dealers I am as much a tormentor as a teacher of lessons. I’ve worked at one, left very quickly because even though this was a top-tier dealer it had totally garbage business practices. Having seen both sides, and knowing how brazen they are about wasting people’s time and…

I like when I can get the dealer to actually feel bad about what he’s doing to me. On the inside I’m laughing at his puny attempts to dishearten me. I’ve been through some real shit, nothing you can legally do to me in a chair in the air conditioning is going to affect my resolve. 

Oh it’s pretty mundane stuff. I have found tho, that there are some pretty good maneuvers to be made at the very end when you are talking to the finance manager who tries and sell you an extended warranty. Seeing what concessions he’ll make to sell you an extended warranty (which they will do for about 20 minutes…

I go to the dealership on purchase day like I’m going on a multiday hiking/camping trip. I’m there to annoy and frustrate them. I break them down. I’m certain that every dealer I’ve ever worked with short of one has wanted to physically harm me by the end of the transaction.

Keep telling yourself that. I’d prefer people not even know what living in a country enjoying overwhelming prosperity looks like. Stay where you are. Because there are still plenty of people who are willing to make great sacrifices to come here to barely scratch out a living (relative to the rest of us), who will…

If you’re 6'7" and have a kid, and Subaru Legacy is actually not that bad to drive versus the other options. Sure the sedan use case is getting a little bit narrower, but it was the most popular configuration of car 10 years ago, where most automakers put their most effort, it didn’t just go away completely overnight.

OK, so don’t give people feedback and just keep things to yourself. I’m sure that’s what they had in mind with internet commenting.

 While yeah, this would be mortifying, you knew the risk you were taking when you grew it all the way down your forehead. No one made you do that.

No I don’t and I haven’t much, but I give Jalopnik and David the benefit of doubt and every time I check in with this series I can’t get excited about it. Hopefully it can be seen as feedback from a long time reader and commenter that loves a lot of what Jalopnik does, that this one just doesn’t do it for me. How’s…

I just mean incredibly possible in the larger sense that most automobiles on the road could do this with nothing more than a few tanks of gas. It’d be one thing to restore a rare piece of design unseen on the roads to surprise and delight and share the living history. But almost no fucks will be paid to it in the 1800…

I do work on cars, they’re just never remotely this far gone, so while I’m really into wrenching, do it and watch it a lot, I just can’t relate to this, I guess. I think it’s more that I don’t care if he’s successful. Like it won’t be a sight to behold when he’s done. It won’t be a fun or impressive vehicle.

I’m sorry, but I fee duty bound to report that this has got to be the dullest restoration series I’ve ever come across.

When my mom was 17 she was in a protracted legal battle with a cop who charged her after he clearly slammed into the back of her car due to inattention. Took until the 4th judge to look at it and charge the cop with the accident, but even he didn’t charge the cop with anything in regards to lying to cover his own ass.…

This is the thing, of all things, Jeremy Clarkson has been severely wrong about. Series 10-20 or so are rife with example of Jeremy claiming this V12 or that V12 was the end of an era, the last of its kind, nothing but turbo’d V8s from here on out.

You’re right in that someone could say set up an EMP pulse or something and shut the car down. What makes this threat different as well as many cyberthreats compared to traditional crime is that it’s much easier to do while incurring less expense and leaving less evidence. When the price of entry goes from device that…

I work for a data security company rife with Tesla drivers. I’m not worried so much about the data loss as someone being able to kill my car remotely. It’s all fun and games until your car stops and goes dark on some remote Alabama back road.

Very few people on road received any sort of training or licencing to drive with level 2 autonomy.

Then what chance is Buick on?

Look, I’m not passing judgement either way for you to be on the contrary. It is startling though. Some omissions like intermittent wipers aren’t even going to save you weight, it’s just annoying. (They may offer intermittent wipers in current base models, I’m not going to bother to check, but for many years that was…