Don’t forget the commemorative coin.

I got it.

$60,000 in 1979 is $226,000 in today’s money.

You know you’re in for a hot take when journalists is in scare quotes.

A nickel!

But robots don’t buy products.  Who’s going to buy your stuff if humans are deducted from the revenue cycle?

I work with those types of people.  When your job is your whole identity, they don’t want to give it up.

Initial Quality = It was nice when it was first new.

Precision engineered.

Kind of like when “extreme” lost all meaning in the 90's.

“Easy to get in and out of because you’re fat and have bad knees.”

I should have picked up on the username.

Comes in white, sparkly white, silver, darker silver, black and a slightly different shade of black.  Dark blue is $2,000 extra and no dealer will stock it.

Former detailer here.  I absolutely loathe Armor-All.  Especially on seats and dashboards.  It’s slippery, reflects too much light onto the windows making it hard to see out in waning sun, and within a couple weeks the heat from the sun starts causing a milky film on the inside of the windows.  Just use a surface…

Where you referring to this article, or was it just a coincidence?

We went to the US Grand Prix this year and commuted each day from San Antonio to Austin. We passed one of these along the way and I was in awe at the size of it every time.

Chevron, especially after they updated it to the folded chevron style.

I like the AM PM logo because it reminds me of their monster truck.

I used to like TrueCar and even used them when we bought our Cadillac CTS Coupe, but they’ve changed.  Now you can’t see prices without submitting an official request, to which they immediately sell your info to four dealerships who then start hounding you daily.  I had one dealership keep contacting me over and over…

When I was going through the process with my Tacoma, the dealership gave me a checklist of all the stuff I needed to bring back to complete the transaction.  When I came back at the agreed upon time with all the stuff on the checklist, my salesman said, “Wow, you actually do what you say you’re going to do.”  At first…