It’s not (sic) if they are using the correct spelling for the language they are speaking.

I have no way to know whether she’s fun or not, but she’s absolutely right. These ads are glamourising [sic not sic] the exact behaviours [sic not sic] and attitudes that are destroying our climate and environment and will be killing us at an accelerating rate. So I guess I don’t give a fuck about her personality.

Yeah, I was wondering whether those were from the sources cited, or added by the author of this piece. I can’t imagine anyone is going to be terribly confused by British spellings.

Ha, what the hell is with the multiple “[sic]” notes here? That’s how they spell stuff over there. It’s perfectly acceptable.

I have never had the slightest issue with a car insurance claim. Geico, State Farm, AIG, even Progressive back in the day treated me perfectly fairly and competently. Including when my mother’s car was totaled in the hurricane last year. Geico paid me 50% more than I ever expected for that ancient Camry, and the whole…

Nope

Look up Crash Network insurer report card. They survey body shops on how well the companies work with them, if they try to cheap out on repairs, etc.

I'm sorry but this is not true.  I was in a head on collision three years ago when an old man passed out at the wheel.  The car was totaled and we had a payout within two weeks.  This is just Elon Musk grade insurance.  

Jalopnik style book requires obvious errors/typos to drive user engagement

This it’s actually a diverse interesting collection. Contrast that against the one I watched on Shmee150's channel, its a huge Porsche collections, but it is THE definition rich guy boring collection. It’s all Porsche which is fine, BUT they are ALL white, or almost all white, and ALL delivery mileage, which mean this…

It’s not the figuring out, they know how. The problem is, they had signed a deal with their OEM navigation supplier Tom-Tom to have vehicles equipped with navigation be restricted to corded smartphone mirroring to try and encourage owners to use the baked in nav.

This is a good point to factor in. The last piece of heavy equipment I bought was a Kubota Excavator. New ones were being offered at 0% interest. Used models had a higher rate. Combine that with good resale value and it cost the same to buy a new one. 

The “Toyonda Tax” and its PNW cousin the Subaru Tax is why buying a high resale value used car is a poor move. The mythology of Toyota,  Honda,  and Subaru greatness drives up used values. I saw this in 2016 when our 2014 Mazda5 was thousands cheaper than a Subaru.  Not only that, the drive train is stone reliable and…

As a long-time advocate of buying 3(ish) year old vehicles and never buying new, I’ve been telling everyone who asks me for the last two years that buying used is a suckers game and that for the vast majority of cars you are better buying new at this point. Unless you are willing to compromise on certain things, you…

This is true but it also doesn’t take into account interest rates which will typically be higher on used cars vs new - so that may actually be a wash.

When I bought a new Ford Escort Pony, one of the reactions that I heard was “American Cars are junk, you should have bought a [five year old ] used Japanese car instead.” And “You are a fucking idiot for buying an American car” from a friend’s dad who bought the Toyota LE Van, a total piece of junk that is also…

For sure and this is not the first nor will it be the last time that source has pubbed an advice article where it looks like they just made some stuff up.

That’s a valid point...but the original article never mentions that they are just comparing new MSRP to what seems to be “theroetical” prices on 5 year old cars that just aren’t what the market represents. And while the hybrid models typically command over MSRP, the gas powered cars like Camry, RAV4, Tacoma can be had…

Disagree. If you want a vibrant downtown, you need people that live there. They will be the ones frequenting the restaurants, bars, theatres, etc.

I live on a pretty narrow street and it’s not really that big a deal. You get the occasional horns when someone is stopped, because you can’t go around a stopped vehicle, but vehicles just don’t need to stop and block traffic all that much. People just do it more when there’s wider lanes because they expect people can…