I actually really like points! No BS. If they go bad, it's five minutes and five bucks.

I was happy with 650rpm, back in the day.

David, you are a hero

Did I just read a non-Jeep article?

Obligatory “No low-ballers, I know what I’ve got”

‘90s Ford Escorts are selling for $3,000 right now. Fucking PT Cruisers are selling for $3,000 right now. Old second gen Chevrolet Equinoxes are staying up at the $7,000 price range, and tenth gen F-150s are selling at around $5,000. Shit’s going nuts. I can’t find a good beater for under $2,500.

You don’t have to tell me about housing. I’m in the market right now and it’s obscene.

Of course cars are in demand, this pandemic showed the folly of public transport and how it is a constant gamble of making yourself ill. And the folly of bicycles too, because you try it a couple of times and arrive at your work place stinking and dripping in sweat [or, if you live in a northern state, a free shower…

Fuck it, I’ll do it.

Perfect car for my next LS swap.

I wonder how EVs are sold at the Buy here pay here lots, “Check out this leaf, its got one of the smoothest engines around I think its a turbo 4 cylinder, gets great mpg.”

Eh. Authenticity is over-rated. Very few musicians are truly “authentic” and the few who are or ever were part of whatever socio-economic class is “supposed” to make music like that will quickly stop being part of that class as soon as the become successful. Unless you’re main music consumption comes from listening to…

Most sales people can’t answer detailed questions about any of their models. I have never been on a lot shopping where I didn’t know vastly more than the sales person about the car I was looking for. These guys/gals float dealer to dealer and rarely stay up on current/detailed product info. They know a few highlights…

Could have just needed a new cylinder head and a tune, could be the front half of one car and the back half of another car welded together and painted to look like it’s all the same car.

“I’m not yet compelled to pay the higher markup than to waste a few hours haggling at a regular dealer.”

What’s sad is Carvana is barely batting over .500.  The bar is so low that they are being insanely successful for being mediocre. 

I think by this point if you can only get screentime on OAN, you’re probably absolutely on the wrong side of whatever issue you’re involved in.

“Why should a salesman go out on a limb for a customer?”

At least the whitewall situation is easy and (relatively) inexpensive to fix. You don’t really know what’s hiding under that wrap.

I always liked the style of them, actually, but I think that a wrapped car is a big warning sign of problems under the plastic. Then again, I’m dumb enough that I came *this* close to buying a Jaguar convertible of the same vintage two or three years ago. Thank god my mechanic talked some sense into me. He said…