Keep it in the family, amirite?

Discounting craigslist (because the only downpayment I had was credit card), I’ve been through this and it sucked. If I could have done it again, I’d have bought a way cheaper car (last 2 years and pay for 2 years cheap), also bought a bicycle or a place closer to work or fun, and worked on my cash and credit score.…

An umbrella tall enough for dudes to push is the best purchase we’ve made. $29.95. My kids both hated strollers after 6 months old, but both still ride in that thing on long walking trips downtown, and it’s been to 6 different cities in airline luggage compartments. Easy to carry up and down the subway even when it’s…

You are correct about that. Memory sticks get cheaper all the time with more storage and it’s easy to drag and drop files. Memory sticks are the best for cars.

And if you are spending $14 on macaroni and cheese make sure to pair it with a slice of cheese pizza and some grapes for the full toddler meal.

UHaul calling someone else out for being a poorly maintained road safety concern - talk about ironic.

My brother had a red ‘90s Cavalier. I had a blue ‘90s Escort, that didn’t even have a tape deck, just a AM/FM radio. Riding or driving in that Cavalier felt like heaven! A friend had that Grand Am, looked exactly like the one pictured. That thing was basically a racecar compared to the Escort.

No. Not in cities. Traffic engineers are only concerned about moving traffic efficiently. They don’t care about the neighborhood, about non-drivers, about real estate values, etc. If you aren’t looking at everything as a whole, then you shouldn’t be deciding such things.

Texas has annual inspections - I’m pretty sure my windshield wipers and tires have failed inspections 1/3 of the years I’ve been driving.

No doubt. I drive this route and back twice a year. From Flagstaff on is so bad, you love getting to Barstow CA! Needles CA is probably the worst place in the US. East, Flagstaff is good, Albequerque and Amarillo are decent, everything else is terrible and far apart. If you’ve been to Amarillo, saying Amarillo is…

A very small number of people pay millions of dollars for exquisitely maintained classic cars, many of which are essentially unmodified. This maintenance and storage is not cheap nor free.

This has been tried in the retail industry and failed pretty miserably and even got the CEO who introduced this fired.

For $12 billion, they could give away 200,000 $60,000 Cadillac cars. I'm not sure of their annual sales, but wikipedia says they sold 150,000 vehicles in 2012, so approximately 200,000 on the high end is their total annual sales.

"Work ethic" just means "working hard", so you could say berating a producer for 30 minutes and punching him was Jeremy working extra hard, since probably all he was slated to do during that time period is eat lunch and stand around.

That seems like a really dumb design. It'd be like if God designed your face to take a punch with no visible damage.

I had a '95 XLT, bought in 2000. Multiple transmission repairs, rusted door locks, interior door handle broke off, that Firestone tire thing -one blew and destroyed the entire side of my car, other random repairs -once stranded in a parking garage at 9:00at night because some thing that prevents the car from starting…

He didn't correct her punctuation, she misused the word 'casualty' which basically means 'injured or dead in a war' for 'casualness', as in 'business casual attire' and he asked her about it.

The Arctic Monkeys have no middle ground. They only write awesome songs and terrible ones.

That article is from March 3. It can't explain past sales, only sales moving forward. It's also insanely poorly written, but I'm assuming that WF's total auto loans were $29.9b, and 10% of that is $2.9b, or 145,000 loans at $20k a piece.

I suspect the real answer is that lenders are dialing back on the sub-prime lending so, people who could get a loan last November can't today.