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“Millenial” (yuck. stop using that word please) here, bought a new Mustang this year - but I do admit I was Focused on a different car before I drove one and bought it on the spot.

I think a large segment of the population actually has no clue what has been accomplished in the modern muscle cars. There are plenty of…

Jimmy Kimmel might have beaten you to this by like... 6 months.

Yeah, I’m a little cynical that the aggregate data from 2007-2011 at one firm can be applied to give context or meaning to any individual performance rating.

http://jalopnik.com/volvo-v90-r-de…

I bought an orange Mustang and could not be happier. Do I care about resale value? No - I’ll either drive it forever, find another enthusiast who is dying for this color (which is being discontinued, of course), or crash it at Cars-and-Coffee. It’s a Win-Win-Win!

No conspiracy here - ALL of the major guys buy every one of each others cars so they can get a feel for the market. The design teams usually have unrestricted access to the studio, and even get assigned to drive the competition to really know what they’re up against.
If you think TESLA and Ford (Lincoln, really) don’t…

What, you don’t just save them in your phone or password manager? What a lot of work to remember a single 4-digit code. Or as others have said, just print your fake business card WITH THAT NUMBER, add it as a phone extension, or the last four of a phone number, or an address like 1234 Pin St. ugh.

I also live in that Central Indiana City. Young adult, no kids - but I would be really horrified of any sitter that worked for less than double minimum wage. Clearly they’re not going to be giving their full attention to the job.

I was cross shopping every sporty car in town last month, and noticed that a Golf R had sat unsold on the local (major city) lot for over a week - they wouldn’t even take the wraps off so I could look closer. That’s fair enough I guess? It’s not even a $40k car though... I test drove a GTI to try to get a better feel…

Those earplugs hanging from the rearview mirror (@2:31) are a great touch. That is not a quiet motor.

“Researchers?”

*sob*

I miss my red ‘89 Prelude so much... I could fit everything I owned in that car back in high school.

Today, I probably couldn’t even use it for my grocery run, since it only has like 10 cubes of cargo volume... but I think that says more about me than the car.

Now this is just wrong. Close when you need the house and no sooner, sure, but delay for the sake of the prepaid interest? That’s dumb, unless you have already sunk your rent somewhere else for that month and don't need anywhere to live.

I hated the plasticy plastic feel of the shifter on my first car, a base model Elantra, so I swapped in the higher trim version leather shifter.

Ok... So who’s actually holding them accountable? Clearly a marketing move with almost zero cost to them.

“Almost Always Based On This One Search I Did Online Today”
Come on. I’m all for tracking prices at several stores, but this ain’t that.
Besides, if Target were “Always” cheaper than Amazon, someone would already be all over that arbitrage.

Like most noise cancellation products, don’t rely on this for hearing protection. It’s good for reducing low frequency noise only - which might be a nuisance, but it’s less important from a hearing conservation standpoint.

Always wear earplugs when doing something noisy like riding - deeply inserted foam roll-down…

That’s an over-estimate. About 40 dB is about the maximum attenuation anyone can achieve from a deeply inserted foam earplug or a very large earmuff. Your bones conduct sound at levels around 40 dB down from what your ears would hear, so there’s a physical limit there.

Ten cent roll-down foam earplugs are the highest…

My “first” car was a 3rd gen Prelude... this was in the early 2000s, but to my junior-in-high-school mind it might as well have been an NSX.
I know they’re tiny, but as someone who could fit 99% of my belongings and 3 smallish friends in there, it was just perfect.