I’ll tell you a story. I’m an advanced care paramedic. The call was for a 2-car MVA on a rural road.

Indeed, the more common thing is anyone belted alive and anyone unbelted dead, but if you go up I’ve seen something quite similar, 4 passengers, 1 unbuckled that killed himself and 2 others.

Based on several real accidents. I’ve seen it.

It isn’t that far fetched, I’ve seen something quite similar.

I will post this yet again.

Exactly. I used to have a BMW 328, and one day it was in for the infamous valve cover gasket, the very nice E39 M5 next to it fell off the lift upside down when one of the sides gave. However the dealership was very professional about it, and they didn’t tell the poor owner that it’d buff right out and that he could…

That woman is clearly completely uninformed about that whole car buying process. Not only did she not care about the purchase price, a staple of people who only care about the monthly payment, she clearly doesn’t understand that a 15% rate would be high even for someone with a recent bankruptcy.

The build quality of the Mexican-built 2014+ Ford Fusion is vastly superior to the Michigan-built 2015+ Focus.

Of course, meth, what else?!

So my own PC has more redundancy and backup than fucking Lockheed Martin and the USAF?

To me, Kona Blue is a bit too purple, and Deep Impact a bit too dark. I really like the new Lightning Blue.

The closest you can get is the V10 in the E60 M5, quite easy to find in the 30k range and not as expensive to maintain as a CL600.

Ford’s MyKey has been doing exactly that, for free, since the late 2000s.

I unfortunately have to agree with you, fellow Canadian. In some sick twist, the system is especially bad on sex crimes, and particularly those against children. Another case in point, some guy in Montreal or Ottawa got arrested after raping his 8 year old live in front of a webcam, and got his 10-year sentence…

But wait, it gets worse. The keys were in a giant box, of which you could pick at any time, with no control whatsoever. In the 3 years I worked there, they lost over 300 sets. Out of around 900 employees, they had over 4,000 sets in circulation.

A 2014 car will very likely have been made in 2013, and first sold in either late 2013 or early 2014. Which means the car is now around 3 and a half years old. Which also means, would you get it today, that you wouldn’t have much warranty left.

I’ve worked in a big city EMS service that had every single vehicle they owned keyed alike - all 200ish of them. Still have one of those keys around, and I tested it recently - it still works.

I don’t know, Ford interiors are pretty damn great, with soft-touch materials everywhere, very comfortable seating and great build quality (since 2012 or so). GM is a whole other story.

Which will all be moot when after 3 years of expensive annual services you’ll have one bigger repair to make on the now-7-years-old BMW. And that’s not touching insurance costs.

Yeah, it’s actually quite a bit larger than an A4 and very close to an A6.