If you are considering any of the vehicles on this list and don’t drive the 3 before you make your final decision, you are doing yourself a disservice.

The 3 hatch is so much nicer and only a bit more though...

For a few months each year, the distances between the Voyager spacecraft and Earth actually decrease. [...]

It’s probably out of warranty by now. ;-)

It was discovered that the degrading diaphragm was clogging the tubes with silicon dioxide

I’m running an ad blocker so I don’t notice. I assume this website wold be unlivable otherwise. I’m showing 42 ads blocked on this page alone.

You need an ad blocker.  They’re even available on IOS devices now.  You’ll thank me later.

Those 114,000 miles have all seemingly been rough ones. I’d wager this thing has been beaten on it’s entire life.

I remember looking into these as a potential fun daily, I think a review called it an Evo for grown-ups. Survey said they were a reliability nightmare - timing chain problems, rear motor mounts, rear diffs blowing up, excessive clutch wear. And this was worse on the ‘06s.

Jessica Patterson bought a $15,000 Kia Rio in 2017 from a CarMax outside of Kansas City, Kansas.
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The lender then auctioned off the Kia for $13,800.

ProPublica has some of the best journalism humanity has ever seen, but it’s hard to visit the site because the stories absolutely enrage me.  I usually binge read stories and then don’t visit the site again until my blood pressure has recovered weeks later.

Sure, it looks predatory, but that’s only because they’re taking advantage of the desperate and vulnerable!

Well, it’s pretty clean, and that’s a great color. It’s not for ME, but it’s not a bad deal!

Who buys insurance for a $5k pay out?

Yep, those insurance companies are good at one, well I guess two things. Collecting premium and not paying out, those being their main operating goals. 

Slides 9, 10 + 11... ”Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.”

Even if the insurance company wouldn’t cover it, they should have immediately chosen to take the hit and pay for it out of pocket.

ADAB

The only good thing I can say about this is that it makes yesterday’s Tracker seem like a good deal in comparison.