I disagree with your conclusion, but love the logic, so you deserve all the stars you’ll get for this Good Take.

Please explain your logic. Or, in your case, your “logic.”

I am fortunate enough to be able to absorb the $23 a month I pay for this, and remember, these are franchise operations, so they are, in essence, small local businesses. 

That interior shot gave me bad 70s flashbacks. CP. 

Yawn. The only people scared by Marx now are die-hard members of the remnants of the John Birch Society. 

Last I checked, the M-W dictionary is not a peer-reviewed journal of epidemiology. Nor is it the WHO. But, yeah, scientists, what do they know? 

Hi, Ayn Rand. Glad you could join us here in our individualistic utopia. Things are just great here. 

I had a 2005 Focus. I quite liked it. But by the time it was used up, around 140k miles, it was pretty much beyond repair. It appears that this parts car has suffered the same fate. Why fix the engine if you leave other bits unfixed? A well sorted one of these for just under $3k would be a fine around-town beater. But…

Exactly right. The WD-40 as lubricant myth will never die, even though it should.

Wow, this is freaking brilliant. I love peanut sauce. Now I am going to make a ton of PB and J sandwiches just so I can empty the peanut butter. 

We got my wife a little blue Hyundai sedan a few weeks ago in a nice blue. I thought my wife bought it because it wasn’t grey, black, silver, or white. Now with my red (almost burgundy) CR/V, this is the first time our driveway hasn’t been monochromatic silver. 

I don’t disagree with you. But I’ve had dealer experiences that range from “awful” to “pretty decent.” With more in the latter category, honestly. For example, about 15 years ago, I bought a Ford Focus off the lot from my hometown dealer for about $11k, and then found the same car in the weekly paper listed for…

Sprung too soft? You never rode in a Mazda5. You may hate it. But a soft ride isn’t one of the things to hate. 

We just put our Mazda5 minivan out to pasture, after 165,000 hard, kid-hauling miles. It kills me that Mazda doesn’t still make that van. It was awesome: just the right size, good on gas, and people with kids should be required, by law, to drive vehicles with sliding doors. When hauling the kids in the van, we never…

He knows what he’s got. Unfortunately for him, so do we: a vinyl wrapped turd. Almost 12 large for this collection of horrors with over 200k on the clock. I think a real-life crack pipe is involved here. 

Holy shit, that green Z is just gorgeous. That’s all. 

Ahh, the good old days on planes, with $1000 coach seats to LAX (adjusted for inflation), but with all the steaks, liquor, and smoking you could stand. And the bonus crashing. Why, it was the Golden Age of Aviation (tm). 

Except when it is. And when their scanners are down. Or when the phone craps out. 

Probably a fake, but it ticks all the usual HR boxes, including the passive-aggressive tone and the author’s approximate (at best) grasp of the English language. 

[Insert list about just about every UN member state about here.]