the laws allow loopholes. Any person would do the same

No matter what they call it, that paint job looks like shit. As in honest-to-god fecal matter. Ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly. Anybody who likes that color may very well be a closeted (or not) coprophiliac.

no such thing as an “affordable” EV.

EVs have been better than gas cars for a decade in nearly every way except price and speed of recharge.

You can count me in the ‘feeling betrayed’ camp ... I don’t do MMOs ... fuck online-only games, fuck multiplayer-only games. I don’t mind games where multipleayer or online is an option, but I have no interest in online multiplayer-only games. I just want to play a fucking game in my own time at my own pace without…

look like a WWII-era German Wermacht plane with the Nazi armed forces balkenkreuz decorating

“Cute” is what you call your friend’s really ugly baby and don’t want to hurt their feelings.

Keep the same amount of customers and increase profit, substantially, by increasing the price

just $2,000 more than a Ranger, but Hinrichs is right. They’re different trucks for different people

Wow, really digging for relevance there ... one article is 13 years old, the other is 15 years old. I suppose you can make an argument that it simply indicates the continuity/perpetuity of towing scams across this country. 

Interesting references .. I spotted the Malazan ref right away but had to google the Il Quora/Bezel names ... still can’t picture Roseanne in either situation.

Google later claimed its self-driving car was free of blame in the Camry crash incident, via the New Yorker, instead labeling it “an unfortunate single-car accident in which another car failed to yield to traffic.”

stupid people not following instructions

are above the rear window which means I can’t see a thing when it’s dark.

I can easily imagine a Prius being whipped through a high-dynamic emergency maneuver but I can only imagine how out of position the passenger was that he suffered severe spinal injury from a relatively simple non-crash maneuver ... he must have been totally out of place in the chair, not sitting properly / not belted…

Heh, just reminded me of something I heard in a news report way back then ... there was a guy (I think a mortgage broker) being interviewed about “predatory” lending practices ... he explained that his company pushed NINJA loans ... they were writing mortgages for people with No Income, No Job or Assets ...

Tom, this makes it sound like you’re blaming the consumer

our lovely government has made filing for bankruptcy harder and more expensive than ever

One of the saddest elements of this issue is so many people NOT filing bankruptcy. If you’re under water, in over your head, can’t afford insane APRs and the threat of repossession and wage garnishment then you should FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY. In most states, your wages, reasonable amount of savings, any retirement funds,…

Big schnozz sure, but “incredibly fragile”? Not on your life, friend .... many of those 70's cars had massive amounts of chromed steel in those noses (Pontiac was very famous for that ... and my mom had an early 70's Tempest with that awesome battering ram out front). Even the T-Bird has steel underneath that baby…