We had years when I was growing up that the SUV became necessary over a wagon for the ride height and 4-wheel drive alone. Several years of high-snow winter in a city that decided not to invest in snow plows made it impossible to get from our home to work/school/groceries, etc.

My wife and I almost bought a minivan once when the kids were smaller, but we ended up with a Ford Edge which worked just as well for us. We’ve had SUVs since without issue, and now that my kids are pre-teens, even the SUV is usually overkill.

The ever-expanding booster seat rules always get me. By the time my older daughter was 8, she was taller than my first wife was as an adult. If my daughter still needed a booster seat at that height/weight, then surely my first wife should still sit in a booster seat at age 48.

When I was very little, my Mom had a 1971 Buick Roadmaster station wagon, which had a lot of space, especially considering I was an only child.

There was a nice DB5 Aston in Goldeneye, though, that got more screen time than the Z3.

No. That was a Z8 in a later movie.

This is what I came here to say, but I knew having watched the episode a day or two late that I wouldn’t be the first.

It’s not a blanket “all future cars made in the US”. It’s a “here are some cars that are currently made here. We want assurances that for X amount of time, they will continue to be made here.”

I’m sure it is crazy common.... though in 30 years of car buying that’s the only time it’s happened to me.

I didn’t say it was a GM problem. I said we took it as a sign.

I didn’t shop GM vehicles for a long time because I’d had two in the ‘80s that were ultra-terrible. Then when I finally decide to give them another chance (actually, my wife was the one car shopping at the time), the car we’d picked out to test drive wouldn’t start.

Those doors are very dear to them.

I don’t care for the lane centering (it seems less “center” and more “a little too far to the left” in my car), but I appreciate the blind spot warning.

I can only point out what happened for the 100+ of tax returns I prepared for 2018. Their paychecks did go up, but not so much that they’d notice. Comes time to do taxes, they’ve withheld less, so the refund is smaller or they owe, but I show them the Tax Summary and show that their effective tax rate is lower (in all…

This is the Supra of my high school years (not this one specifically since I graduated in 1989, but the body style is the one I would think first when hearing the name ‘Supra’).

You still need income, though (and not only because the IRS will eventually determine your ‘business’ is a hobby and stop letting you take such deductions).

My wife and I each have a car that ran about $25,000 when we purchased them new. The payments on both plus insurance is less than 10% of our take home pay, which is about what the recommendation from some experts is.

Other than a relatively small-for-most federal income tax reduction, other taxes do seem to continue to climb. My property taxes, for example, have increased substantially over the last few years.

He’ll always be the fifth or sixth Young Shawn Spencer to me.

The issues would be less worrisome if the dealerships weren’t so uniformly terrible to deal with.