I’m sure you understand that Twitter uses NDA’s and firings to suppress unwanted discussions?

Unless Toyota has something in their dealer agreements that enables them to curtail excessive markups, there’s not a ton they can do about it, except (maybe) screw the worst dealers out of allocations.

My complaints about today’s trucks are well illustrated by this truck. It’s a work vehicle, fitted out like a work vehicle. You would not worry about getting in this thing while wet and/or filthy. As long as the heat/AC/defrost works and the radio and BT adapter work, this is a NP, given the insane market.

Herbie? Are you shitting me?

A) Nice handle

You really need to contemplate reliability along with capability. It doesn’t matter what the thing can do if it doesn’t consistently run. And so, which of these vehicles would one buy if one lacked endless funds or a readily accessible squad of military mechanics?

There are better choices out there. Even with the low miles, I wouldn’t be too confident in the multiple parts on this car prone to failure. I have to be honest, too - I hate bright red cars and the driver’s seat would drive me up a wall until I could get it re-done.

That’s much more of a US thing.

The fact that he bought both cars is an indicator he may have had bigger problems than his driving ability. However, perhaps his subconscious realized it was riding in a Tempo and simply did what was necessary.

If you bought one of these, much like becoming a contestant on The Bachelor, “...for the right reasons...”, it was awesome. I lived in a very large city, had to regularly transport bulky, sometimes wet, often dirty shit all over the place and the Element was fantastic. You could park it, hose it out, beat the shit out…

The root of many a PNW traffic problem can be found in a VW minibus. In, because some stoned kid romanticized one of the single shittiest cars ever and was, thanks to laws against road salting, able to buy one. Or, some old stoner who gives not a shit that the thing can do 10-15 mph uphill and goes 0-30 in about 10…

Any VW collector’s wealth is transient, at best. Poor life choices.

Some? What, a few 60-day old vehicles?

...or “Love Hurts” or “You Make Me Feel Brand New”...

Alfa-Romeo Stelvio. 2018. Ridiculous.

I think we should get one thing out of the way...these things were slow and handle poorly compared to today’s cars. Before buyers’ appetites changed, cruisers like this were extremely popular. Speed limits were capped at 55mph, so a comfortable ride was a premier consideration when buying any car.

I’m sure that’s exactly the language they used, too. “Sexual get-together. With cocaine.” Sure.

They might have gone a bit too far with the enigmatic genius, especially when they didn’t really develop his interactions with the machines. All you really got from the character was that he was an asshole who could dance.

A corporation that courts a certain market and certain potential employees, and who absolutely creates content for a certain audience should understand that, as one of the larger employers in the state, they had a business obligation to oppose the bill. As much as I loathe the “corporations are people” trope, this was…

It’s a scam. I worked in risk management for a company who owned “riverboat” casinos. Even though the facilities were “technically” boats, the effort necessary to prove that these buildings could float and move was substantial. Nonetheless, the various states and municipalities agreed to the scam in exchange for the…