With a little negotiating, he could get a new Volvo V60 T6 R-design wagon (what a mouthful). At 302hp it’s not going to be super quick, but at 3900 lbs it’s about 400 lbs lighter than the E63. Big enough to haul everything.
Even better would be the Polestar edition, at 362 hp, but even if you could find a used 2017…

Same age I really wanted Julie from the Love Boat to take a trip with me to Fantasy Island.

I think they do the $100 voucher if they’ve gotten multiple complaints. I rented a room at a place in Princeton. I get there, the host is not there, her elderly parents are who speak no English. There is a rule they’d never mentioned that you cannot have any food or drink in the rooms. Anywhere you go in the common…

Not really from hell, but it seemed like one long setup for a horror movie that never happened. This was just...weird.

Two years ago I rent an AirBnb in mid-town Manhattan - only $60. I get there, and there’s a very friendly older Russian guy - like, overly friendly. It’s a small apartment with a ton of beds, and a…

Voyager’s episode Distant Origin was from an alien species’ POV

The Borg weren’t truly alien? A hive mind?

Have I not taught you people anything? The answer, as always, is a Mercedes E350 4matic wagon. You’ll have to go with a bit more mileage (around 70K) to stay under the $20K price. But it’ll have plenty of cargo room, it’ll be great for burning up highway miles in comfort, and the six cylinder E class is about as…

I’m an idiot for thinking an active race track is a dangerous place and there are rules in place for a reason, and that ignoring them because of your emotions is a really bad idea.
Yeah, sure, you go with that.

Sonoma raceway

There are plenty of options for shipping a car cross-country. Be forewarned it’ll cost about $800-$1K, it will arrive late, and the skeevy looking bunch dropping it off will insist there is some extra $50 or $100 charge that wasn’t on the paperwork that they must have in cash or you’re not getting your car.

That’s really not much cargo room for a wagon. It’s the same as the trunk in my E-class coupe, and with the seats folded down I’d bet the Avant has only a bit more total cargo room. Better than the sedan, sure, but this makes me want the 6 more.
And 3950 lbs in a car that size? Without even the V8 heft? Again, to…

Locked emergency exit? I’d be giving the fire department a call when I got out. That’s something they needed to fix that very night.

This is a guy who went bankrupt trying to sell booze, beef, and blackjack to Americans.

During the Bush and Obama years playing hard ball with the Chinese was problematic because we needed them to buy billions of dollars of our debt EVERY DAY.

Actually, the first step to a negotiation is to either file a grievance with the WTO, or begin negotiating some kind of trade agreement. Not a round of tariffs.

Funny, I don’t recall any President having a fixer so crooked a judge issued a warrant to search his office and home. It takes a very, very high bar to get a judge to issue a warrant for an attorney’s office. And after a search of news articles about cases where this happened, in every single one that attorney ended…

Trump will talk about changing DC, he has no interest in doing it. Take those term limits. It would require a constitutional amendment. This is a guy who can’t manage to get his own party to pass any major legislation other than a tax cut for the rich. He isn’t even mentioning a plan for getting term limits in place,…

I don’t care if it’s from an old article. Every car review on the site should end with this, and call it a “PhilScore”
(yes, I know that’s not your name, but the joke doesn’t work with Philly)

Because what you want and what you think will happen can be different things.
Imagine that.

Yes, I remember the relentless drumbeat of how great free markets are, and government is terrible and should just get out of the way and companies are the job creators.
Then a Republican President bailed out the auto industry, government saved the banking industry, when those markets failed.
Then certain people went…