I enjoyed this. Thanks David and others.

Like you, I have record of EVERY PENNY I’ve spent on each of my automobiles from the day I purchased them. Records come in handy when something starts to go wrong. And how can you make informed financial decisions if you don’t really understand how much your previous decisions cost you?

Only two kids. One parent and one kid going one direction, other parent and other kid going the other direction, still works fine with a 2 seater. We do it now pretty regularly.
These are the same arguments that tons of coworkers wanted to bring up. I’m not being obtuse; I genuinely don’t see the issue. None of them…

I thought we all had Miatas and wagons here!

“Is there a reason for 2 identical tasked vehicles?”

Last I looked (some time ago, I’ll admit), KBB still marked cars with manual transmissions as worth less than cars with automatics. I’ve bought and sold at least a dozen cars with manual transmissions, and every single one has carried a premium over an automatic transmission car. This Kelly person is living in an…

I’m about at the same place. Finally ponying up for that same Shoei last year has made me realize what I was missing by still using bargain bin gear from 15 years ago. A nice suit has been creeping up my want list.

Was this reply even for me? You seem to be confused about what I said.

Remember that false equivalency thing I mentioned above? You just demonstrated it pretty well. One of those protests inconvenienced and annoyed people. The other probably spread a disease that is quickly working its way to becoming the leading cause of death. Neither of those impacts should be taken lightly, but they…

Maybe I missed something... Did Black Lives Matter have an organized, in-person gathering during a worldwide pandemic? If so link to some coverage here, and we’ll all happily call them idiots too.
Otherwise, GTFO with your false-equivalency bullshit.

“No, surely the head of research and development would not go on to say in his very next answer why Porsche’s approach to electric, actually, is better than Tesla’s. No! There’s no rivalry here!”

Every time I see a comment about TouchID, I realize that it must really work A LOT better for other people than it does for me. Pull your phone out of your pocket and have it already unlocked? HA! More like pull it out of your pocket carefully avoiding the button so as to avoid using up one of your attempts. Then…

As I said in another response, I was shopping for a Cayman when the 718 came out. I’m one of the many that thought the new engine was a downgrade, but it had nothing to do with the cylinder count.

As someone that was shopping for a Cayman at the time the 718 came out, I can confirm that the cylinder count wasn’t what turned me away from it. I just really prefer the throttle response of a NA engine in a sports car.

Oh yes, they’d throw a fit. And then they’d get over it and buy them anyway. With 0% down over 114 months. Because in the end having the newest and “best” is more important to most buyers than the count and position of the cylinders.

I think the Mustang and the Wrangler are the perfect demonstration: This applies to almost no cars at all.
If a new model properly captures the spirit of the original, people will get over a change in engine configuration. The purists will throw a fit for a little while, and then they’ll get over it. Because an engine…

Who says this hypothetical person’s actions don’t reflect it? That wasn’t in Mr. Dubble’s description.
But even if he doesn’t put his money where his mouth is, execution and robbing his family’s assets seems a little extreme.

Harsh punishment for sharing empathetic sentiments there.

I never called you racist. The first one I saw do that was you. But if I had to guess, I’d say those that followed your lead are doing so less because you object to Kanye’s language and more because you pretend not to see a difference between his and Larson’s situations and behaviors.

“No one is saying ‘Kanye and other musicians need to stop saying the n-word’...”
*citation needed