1st Gear: I’ve bought three brand new Toyotas over the years. Each time the F&I dude tried to sell one of those maintenance plans, and each time I pulled up their own website and showed them the coupons that are always available for the same services that result in them being cheaper than their plans. (I only do this…

Or the heartbreaker: someone freaking out after getting a text from a loved one who survived the collapse but was drowning in their car. 

Another snowflake cowboy that’s all hat and no cattle.

I wish they’d at least used the concept’s body-color trick on the front end to make the grill area look better (and kept the bigger graphics).

So... thirty+ years ago. I remember gas at 50 cents a gallon too; not really useful information today.

Is it? It seems pretty spectacular to me. I seem to recall a loan payment of about $180/mo on my wife’s new Yaris back in 2007. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than what this is going for (yes - leases are typically lower than monthly loan figures). Throw in zero due besides the first month’s payment at signing…

Ah gotcha; that makes sense.

I honestly thought the glow in the dark tags were a mandatory part of the law. Didn’t realize it was optional.

Went from a Toyota to a BMW.

This one must include money owed from trade-in. Not that dealer markups aren’t a thing, but come one.

Toyota:

All I can say is I haven’t seen a single team searching bags yet... But I guess I don’t actually head inside at Times Square or GCS or whatever.

Yeah - you have to have a license to even have a gun in your home. Then a separate license to carry.

This has always been my big issues (and the issue with open carry). LEOs and others go through weapons retention training and can still have their weapons taken. The average chucklehead with a six-shooter on their hip, or even a 9mm in a pocket doesn’t stand a chance.

It’d argue the gameplay interaction is just an example of finding a reason for something they wanted to do anyway.

Thank you!

While you’re correct, it’s still more info than we’ve had access to so far. It would’ve been interesting to “test drive” something brand new and scan its battery health too.

Oh definitely - something actually resulting in death is orders of magnitude less likely.

I’d argue a significant misunderstanding of the idea of “simplicity” at play if replacing a manual lever (or knob or even mechanical buttons) with obvious manners of selection with haptic buttons on a glass screen is believed to be more “simple”.

It’s all about resources. They could spend that money scouring river beds or they could buy more tactical gear.