Anyone that uses the word "investment" when it comes to purchasing a car, I immediately write off as completely clueless.

I like how you guys are talking about having $20k and $40k and I'm just here like "Oh cool, I can afford gas today."

if "fiscal responsibility" was at the top of my list of priorities, I wouldn't buy a car at all. I'd move within walking distance of work and rent/borrow/zipcar if I needed to.

You eat depreciation costs every time you buy a car, new or used, cash or otherwise.

Please Tom. Maybe the headline itself is just too strongly worded, but this is dumb. No offense Tavarish, I enjoy your writing.

But while you're straight-saving for your $20,000 car you have no car. And money sitting in a savings account is decreasing in value thanks to inflation and today's shit interest rates. You might make it work if you're investing it, but that's another debate.

I don't disagree with the sentiment that buying a used car is, in many ways, more financially responsible than buying a new car.

Wow, you are extremely misinformed. "free roads" for trucks? Not even close.

Exactly. And now most of those companies are offering $5000 or more sign on bonuses to get people to drive for them. Sounds great til you see $.33 per mile. Then you have to wait up to a year to see that bonus. They've resorted to hiring fresh cdl grads at $400 a week training pay to fill the void. Oh yea and most of…

As I've mentioned in a different discussion awhile back, the sad state of passenger rail in the US belies the importance of freight rail. We've still got something like 140,000 miles of usable railroad. It carries 16% of our freight tonnage but 40% of our ton-mileage. That disparity suggests that trucks and…

Who said anything about congestion? I didn't.

I have a CDL and made great money til the economy to a dump. They cut back benefits, eliminated runs and let go of drivers claiming the trucks were broken. We were treated like crap, lied to and had our pay docked. Traffic held us up and we arrived late, we got docked. A box was damaged, we got docked. Brakes locked…

This is a fucking awful joke.

"I didn't spend a cent repairing my Ferrari!"

So based on the looks of that Cooper, someone just donked the shit out of their lawnmower.

When is your first scheduled Buttrape Service?

Those are actually mufflers. We use them in the car testing world on both the intake and exhaust sides. They can be used for all sorts of things. Many times a vehicle is muffled up to study the radiated noise of the engine or transmission or any assortment of other things without the intake or exhaust being in the…

Inclined to think that the two orange things are microphones. Given that some of the passes in the video are with the engine shrouding and some aren't, wonder if they're trying to isolate different noise sources - in this case probably the knobby tires. Certain countries (Switzerland most infamously) are way touchy…

I read this list and it dawns on me, no one on Jalopnik ever owned an Aerostar.

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