And yet if you're below median household income, total state and local taxes are lower for you in Michigan than they are in Florida. Income taxes aren't the only kind of state or local tax, in case you didn't realize...

Not exactly. If your engine repeatedly fails to start and you have to leave your car in the driveway, it isn't a safety issue, but if they can't fix it, it would fall under the lemon laws...

Lesson for the Mazda5 : If you aren't sure you can avoid the other car completely, steer into it (good marks for moderate overlap, terrible for small overlap)

Or even worse. "Financial"...

Yes, it is a real thing, and yes, it is a sign of the apocalypse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial…

Plaid.

Good news if you were hoping to buy a Chevy Cruze built in South Korea as GM and workers there came to an agreement, according to Reuters:http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/0...

Bad timing Nissan. Don't tell everyone you just made a bunch of money and then try to get your friend to pickup the check for dinner.http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/0...

I certainly used the supplied gasket, but it was a single blue gasket in my case, not a double one...

Really? I put them on two different cars (Taurus and Camry) and never had a lick of trouble with either. I've recommended them to family members who have installed them, and none have reported any trouble whatsoever. My car leaks oil... from plenty of places, but the valve isn't one of them.

Make sure its the fumoto one, not the fram junk. :)

I've wanted one in the past - my 97 Taurus had a transmission without a drain plug (Ford's response to too many quickie lube places screwing up an oil changeby removing the transmission plug, draining the transmission, then adding a few quarts of oil to the engine oil, and sending customers on their way with an…

Better that than this:

A better approach:

Volt sales > Model S sales.

Is that Musk laughing because he's never managed to hit his scheduled release dates either?

EXACTLY... and this woman was still driving it and claiming it was perfectly reliable.

In a survey of 2,000 motorists in Europe, a whopping 71.5 percent said they don't want the black boxes in their cars. That makes sense. Why would anyone want the government to track just how fast they were driving or where they were in a car? Frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't 100 percent of people saying that they…

Amen.

Thanks - I did use 3% not only to be conservative, but also because the 10 year T-note is yielding 2.47%. It doesn't seem appropriate to me to use a rate in NPV calculations below the T-note plus a bit. Technically, you're right, their cost really is darned close to 0%. Probably not more than 1.5% or so, if you…

I found it cheaper to buy new than used, and I paid cash. It was absurd - dealers refusing to go below $18k for a used 2009 Mazda6 with 35k on the odometer, even when I showed them I could get a 2010 with identical equipment and 4 on the odometer for $17.6k.