Buy the damn minivan!

(1) The automotive holy grail is *not* brown in color, diesel, manual, and a station wagon.

It should be AT LEAST as expensive and difficult to get a driver’s license in the US as it is in Germany. Real driver training or you can just stay home, walk, or take a bus. And I don’t give a shit about the poors. They are fucked anyway.

Everyone thinks the BRZ needs a turbo. It does, but what it really needs is a rear hatch and maybe some T-tops.

Old cars suck! They’re dangerous and bad for the environment. They’re also always worse driving than I remembered. These days, whenever I get into an older car they feel so damn loud and slow. They should be relegated to the garage and left off the streets.

Gas taxes should be higher. Like, much higher.

Well things would be different if the bobcat wasn’t being aggressive and trying to attack his wife/the pet. I don’t know how I would react but I would hope I would punt that little fucker like I’m trying for a 50 yard field goal, and if it came back, like Bernie Mac used to say I’m gonna beat it till the white meat…

It was an aggressive and likely rabid bobcat, you do whatever you can. If you want to hammer throw that thing, go for it. 

1st and Neutral: It isn’t going to happen. 2030 will come and go, and gas car sales won’t be banned in Washington. 2035 will come and go, and gas car sales wont be banned in California.

If there were a 2-door version with a 5' bed, I’d put down a deposit today. As is, I’ll be waiting for this to come out before buying anything new. 

I don’t think it was worth Subaru’s time to slog through horrible sales for another 12 years just in case the idea might finally catch on. They can always tack a bed onto the Outback now if the idea takes off. 

my Ford Sport Trac has a 49" bed and it’s much more useful than a wagon. With a topper it has lots of room. With tailgate down and a bed extender it gets to 72", long enough for me to sleep in the back. A field-dressed elk fits in there easily and washably. I did that once with a minivan and the blood never really…

Sometimes the truckers would also tie an onion to their belt, which was the style at the time.

what the fuck did i just read

I worked for one of the big 3 (or maybe big 5) dry van companies in the early-mid 90's. We had a few trailers which were insulated, with vent doors front and rear, which we called “potato trailers’ because these were specially requested for loads of potatoes we used to haul out of Idaho. When it wasn’t harvest season,…

I saw a truck just this afternoon with that door open on the back. I wondered what it was and theorized the exact answer you found. Flash forward 4 hours and here’s your article.

That’s kinda her whole job. Also, if any of those products are at all attractive to you, factory ext warranty especially cuz you can’t buy it elsewhere, it might be worth it to negotiate.  She would probably be happy to make $300 rather than zip.

No Christmas card for you, prudent shopper.

Just bought a car yesterday and the finance person made some huge assumptions before meeting with us. She had the paperwork drawn up with zero down and 72 and 84 month options with helpful breakdowns of monthly payments including all of the extended warranty and add ons they offer.
I told her we were doing 10k down…

Here’s a hot take: you shouldn’t be underwater on a car loan. So if you suddenly can’t afford the payments then you can sell it and buy a much less expensive car, hopefully pay all cash with the equity left from the last car and have something until your situation changes.