The entertainment complex is nothing if not predictable. One could be forgiven for thinking that there are only about ten plot devices available to writers at any given time, and every show must have the requisite insubordinate hero who’s smarter than all the officers, a party-hearty type with substance problems…

Nope. Only if one possesses far more money than sense. Shit, not even then. I’d hope friends and family would stage an intervention before allowing this purchase.

Nope. The leaks are harbingers of expense and a cracked sunroof that doesn’t leak is a good bump away from, “Jesus, find an underpass!”, which will inevitably be followed by conversations along the lines of, “HOW much?”.

It’s not a complicated thing to fix if planes are being boarded back-to-front. Of course, even the meekest Buddhist becomes an asshole once they join the flying public, so perhaps I overstate things.

“GNR Lies”, in this case means, “Grand National Reseller Lies!”.

I don’t really see what’s unethical about Musk buying into a company. I get that people loath the guy, but he’s under no ethical restriction to retrain his interests. He’s certainly entitled to his opinion about the consistency of Twitter’s enforcement of its policies. I don’t agree with him, but that conversation…

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.

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.