I never put regular in my Trans Am, Corvette, Camaro or CTS-V. Those cars recommended premium for maximum performance, which is why I bought the car to begin with.

Optimal performance == optimum fuel economy.

I mean, sometimes they do, but you’ll know it. An APR-tuned A6 really, really needs 93 or you’ll regret it. 

My 1991 Lexus LS 400 (handed down from my sister the doctor, the original owner, to my dad to my uncle to me) took premium, and as I was driving it in 2013 I figured it had earned it. I loved that car. It had a built in car phone. It was like driving the Batmobile. It gave its life when it was T-boned right behind my…

Octane slows the flame front in the combustion chamber (thus resisting knocking). So if there’s any effect at all with high test where it isn’t required, the effect is negative.

The only car I’ve ever had that required premium gas would run on low test without pinging by retarding the ignition timing.  The power loss was noticeable but not a big deal.  If I was just commuting then sometimes I’d run 87 in it.

I’ve had people come up to me at the pump “You know you’re just wasting money on the premium stuff” while I’m pumping 93 into my upgraded turbo, tuned GTI.   Go away, faceless drone. 

Alternatively, premium is better for cars that don’t needs it.

“optimal performance” /= “need”

Fun fact: of our first 12 presidents, only two never owned slaves.

Both named Adams.

Same here - there is a Target and a Walmart across from each other in my area. All of the awful people I’ve seen (line cutting, yelling, no masking, etc) has always been at the Walmart. One time, I saw a Trumptard with a giant Trump flag on the back of his pickup truck drive into the Walmart parking garage and get…

in fashionable yoga pants,  quite often, yes.

Don’t be obtuse. If you’ve shopped at both you know exactly what phatplat is talking about.

“Hell is other people” , Jean-Paul Sartre

But, it's still Alabama that's why.

I’ve bought two cars in the last 15 years and they were both from Carmax.

You do know that’s not Bradley in those photos, right? 😒

I wonder how many of these you’ll get.

Correct, a digital deed to a digital property you will never physically possess because it lives in a server you have no access to. You don't even get usage rights so outside of scamming dudebros I think it's just another way to pay for thousands of dollars worth of illicit goods with a bit of cover.