<calls entire country stupid while using poor/lazy grammar and questionably cohesive sentences>

Good thing your opinion literally could not matter any less. Please, just go home. You’re welcome to stay but it will be nicer with you gone.

Also they are driving on the left.

If you don’t have kids yet, then if you do they will never drive.

You have a point, but even if HFC isn’t remotely interested in cars, I want to make sure he/she at least understands how and when to do basic maintenance. What he/she does with that knowledge is up to him/her, but he/she will know how to change a tire and use jumper cables safely, how to tell when he/she needs a brake…

Unless you live in a large (NY, LA, Chicago), every kid will want a car and the nicer the better. If you grew up in a rural/suburban area like me, you start thinking about what car you’d like to have when you’re 14. Not interested in cars is like saying a kid would be fine wearing Payless shoes and Goodwill shirts.…

walking?

I have an Xterra I’ll sell you. Dependable, safe and she can drive through flaming gas station pumps with nary a scratch. 

Give the kid a $1,000 beater and have them pay you back. Have them learn how to fix it.

I can’t believe how many kids these days have brand new cars to drive around with. Not to mention all of the iPhones and current gen game consoles that came before it.

I get it. As a soon to be parent I want to give my child the best…

I don’t have kids yet, but someday, I probably will. When Hypothetical Future Child turns 16, I will not buy him/her a car. I might match whatever he/she can save up, but I won’t buy his/her car for him/her, and I definitely won’t lease one. You see, HFC, if you buy a cheap used car, and if you maintain and take care…

I have three coworkers who have leased their teens cars. One did the Cruze lease (son wrecked it; had to get another), another an Elantra (daughter hated driving a Hyundai; is spoiled brat; drove mom’s BMW to school) and the third a new Civic (daughter wrecked it two days later).

What, because you don’t care that means no one cares? Dont fucking comment if you don’t like it.

Tony Zhou does a nice breakdown of why Edgar Wright is such a great director

Hot Fuzz is underappreciated by whom? It’s amazing from beginning to end. And any movie that has a former James Bond getting hit head impaled on a miniature clock tower is clearly a masterpiece.

I think you should re-read. He replaced/rebuilt virtually every system for the long term. He used better parts. Things partially worn or known trouble spots were addressed. It was a system reboot. A better initial purchase would have all those same systems in different states of decline. Addressing those issues as…

I also wanted to come back and say that this article is awesome. More stuff like this please Jalopnik!

Car pictured. Second owner of a 2009 Mini Cooper S, only about 52k miles on the clock when the timing chain tensioner failure happened.

Are Minis REALLY that bad? Come on, BMW and all but second gen cars can’t be that bad, right, right?