Gorgeous car, wow!

Moose hits are way dangerous. Not only is the moose itself dangerous if it does not die, but they are quite tall with a high center of gravity. This means the topple when hit, and often onto the roof of the car hitting them. Do not want.

Okay, gotcha. I'm a little boggled that anyone would want to buy one of these after LEO's have beaten the shit out of them. Caprices and Crown Vics can take that sort of pounding. Not these.

Did you miss the part where I said that talking risk reduction does not somehow prevent talking about not raping people to my sons? What, exactly, is your point here?

"She deserves what she gets."

A viper gets loose at the rear and it's news?

In cases of breaking and entering, no one says "well, your door lock wasn't very good, so you probably wanted someone to break in." In cases of theft no one says "well, you were wearing nice, expensive clothes, so you probably wanted someone to notice you and steal from you."

As soon as I saw the grating and the construction I thought it might be the Berkeley. The St Pauls sign and glimpses of Tide stadium proved it.

Why? They're pretty terrible compared to the caprice and corwn vic. The charger doesn't have the ass to survive police work. Most of the cops I know that have them as cruisers hate them because they're constantly breaking down. The city maintenance guy I know definitely bitches about how weedy they are. We've got one…

Oh, and the dealership's owner might not mind hail storms, but quite literally everyone else that works for the dealership HATES it. Large hail losses create an assload of non-profitable extra work for just about everyone and disrupts the flow of business. The owner might line his pockets, but everyone else gets…

As an independent adjuster, I am juuuust fine with hailstorms at dealerships. They're a pain in the neck, sure, but it's generally a pretty good chunk of money for me.

My plumber's name is Loic. He's a little french badass too. Maybe it's got something to do with that name.

Awesome. Would've loved to have gotten this claim.

A few years back I was in a towyard and parked next to the Benz I was writing was a year old WRX STI. Whoever had it slid it sideways into, and over, a curb or berm, because all four wheels were laid flat. And by flat, I don't mean the tires were blown. I mean the suspension broke at the upper mounts and the wheels…

What this guy said. NHTSA and IIHS are under no onus to protect the next buyer. To protect themselves I'd not be surprised to see them brand the title of the car post test, as that makes the car *less* likely to be rebuilt. But once they sell it to a slavor, it's the salvor's liability to make sure that no unsafe…

Many years ago I was on the Jersey turnpike heading for a weekend in NYC in my crappy tercel when a medium duty truck to my left-rear decided he was going into my lane NOW. His front bumper lanced my left quarter like a boil in an almost textbook PIT maneuver, and suddenly my world went very, very loopy. I spun in…

I know a SWCC team. Friend of a friend. Guy really is all that and a bag of chips. 100% warrior through and through, as well as being humble, personable, and giving. Anybody that'll let some yahoo he barely knows pull the trigger on a $9000 rifle (with a $3000 scope) is a good joe in my book.

Going to say this one again, in a short post, hopefully for maximum impact.

This is a VERY applicable question. The first level of investigation would be to assure that you, the car's owner, did nothing sketchy with the car to modify its' decision-making processes. The second would be to make sure you were not operating it in manual at the time of loss, or otherwise mussing with it. Assuming…

To people who cannot imagine binary lose-lose decisions, your lack of awareness of how accidents occur does not constitute a lack of lose-lose decisions on the part of reality.