Oh, they had a name for it. The “Rainy Day Fund.” But my point was that they purposely withheld their financial ability to offer their employees a small salary increase and then tried to play dumb when the people working for our best interests pointed it out to them. So forgive me when I don’t believe people that say…

Our union was able to get a look at the company books. So during negotiations where the company is telling us how broke they are and don’t have a dime to spare, our negotiators could point to multiple accounts that held hundreds of millions of dollars each that were not earmarked for anything.

I had a 2012 manual as well. I just found his argument counter-intuitive.  He opens with “good luck finding one” then says that lots are full of them to the point they are covered with dust because nobody buys them.

I went to test drive a MazdaSpeed 3 one time and it had a dead battery. The salesman actually asked if I wanted to test drive a standard Mazda3 instead, like they are equivalent to each other. Like I was being particular and could only test drive a blue one or something.

Ah, thank you.  I knew it was some type of valuable metal.

Don’t try to dissect his hyperbole.

You seem to be very angry about this and even though you were very rude about it, I will admit that I misunderstood your post.  I thought you were trying to say that different neighborhoods that weren’t part of New York city were being lumped in as part of the city.  Thus I was saying that anybody that doesn’t live…

I’ll have to check my various accounts, maybe shift some funds around, but I think I can put up to 50 cents down if needed. With that being said, I want an additional 3 cents on my trade in.

I’m sure the person you’re renting their personal car from is going to be thrilled watching you drive away as you slip the clutch, grind the gears and bunny hop down the street.

I want to say one was named Traxxas. Long before the RC company existed.

Not even remotely the same and you know this.

For a while around here they were stealing catalytic converters from (Tacomas?) I think.  Crawl under with a saws-all and cut it out.  I think they contained copper the meth heads were pawning for drug money.

My boss had a full headlight assembly stolen from his Dodge Ram.  Just came out and there was a gaping hole.  I told him I thought it was an auto body shop that didn’t want to buy a replacement, but probably still charged the insurance company for a new OEM part.

Nobody but New Yorkers care. That’s like people around here giving the, “Well, technically San Francisco isn’t in Silicon Valley.” It doesn’t matter. To the rest of the world, it is.

I’ve seen people driving around with car alarms going off and my first thought is they are dumb and/or old and don’t know how to turn it off. I never think, “Oh, that car might be stolen!”

I kind of thought the same thing.  Isn’t the point of buying a crate engine is that it comes with a factory warranty?  For $30,000 you can get a speed shop to build you a hell of a custom engine.

Eh, just chop an old 308 in half and put that in there.

Very honest indeed. The usual answer is, “I need it to safely merge on the highway.” I respect people a lot more if they’re just honest and say, “I don’t need it, but I really wanted it and could afford it.” Versus trying to backward engineer a reason you NEED four wheel drive when you live in Phoenix or you NEED a…

No, they just buy Bentley’s and Rolls Royce’s that depreciate 75% in four years.

Negative. The bank owns it, I just pay to live here monthly. I’m essentially a renter that is responsible for all of my own maintenance and repairs.