rental cars are frequently used by drug and weapons traffickers.

There’s still no flag to say it is contract violation vs. a car jacking.

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Actually its something much more mundane: insurance. Police departments can have their insurance rates skyrocket if there are many injuries, so the training today emphasizes officer safety over everything else. Including the safety of suspects. Its been taken to an insane extreme. Its also a major reason they are so…

If you drive 15K miles a year, your fuel cost with this are about half most cars for a savings of around $750 a year. This is really not a bad investment at all.

Did you confine yourself to North Carolina in your cite I was responding to? Nope. Nor should you, these are usually decided on 4th amendment grounds (federal).

On average, how many vehicles a day does a drag strip handle? Compares to, say, a road?

My first car was this, a 1975, badged as an Opel 1900. Had a shop rebuild the transmission, but it shifted really hard and jerked. Shop admitted they couldn’t figure it out, refunded my money. About the 7th or 8th shop I went to, the mechanic said oh, nobody uses the right little pressure thingy (can’t recall the part…

Drive the Accord for another six months and bank $2K a month. Now you’ve got $12K, walk in to do a lease deal with that kind of cap reduction. The interest rate (money factor) will be pretty much irrelevant as the amount financed with be at most $8K over 3 years. Payment will be low, so save up and you can buy the car…

A ten year old VW is a maintenance nightmare. This thing? Expect every hose and belt to disintegrate, seals to leak, and random electrical and sensor failures. Quite unsafe, both for being slow and for not having the engineering of newer cars (crumple zones for example.
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Utter nonsense. The first case cited in your link is in Wisconsin. Let’s confine ourselves to just cases there. All of these are cases where the court ruled the cop was mistaken about the law, the stop was invalid and any evidence was inadmissible

Sure, we’ll only use it against terrorists. Uh huh. Like those provisions of the Patriot Act that we swore were only for fighting terrorism.

Cops certainly can pull you over without probable cause. It may or may not result in whatever they find not being admissible as evidence - but even then, many idiots consent to a search. But there is no law that actually says they cannot pull you over without probable cause, its merely a barrier to anything that…

In my experience, the more expensive the car the more casual they are about such things. Helping a friend find a $10K commuter? They want to run my license, the names of nearest relatives (yes, really, at a Volvo dealer), perhaps a credit check.

Want to drive a $70K car at a BMW dealership - no need to see my license.…

If you’re trying to save money, you look at used. But comparing them? They aren’t comparable. One has zero miles, a warranty, and you know the maintenance history. They aren’t comparable. Really, I can say a ten year old Mercedes E class AMG at $15K is cheaper than a new Civic at $20K, but they aren’t comparable.

I would think these would sell to real estate agents and lawyers who need to project an aura of success. I knew an attorney who did nothing but DUI cases and bought a 5 or 6 year old Bentley, made him look very successful. He told me that in several years of specializing in DUI cases he’d gotten many reduced, but only…

I didn’t say you get hired for “taking a few courses online”. I said there are fields in which you can take courses online leading to a certification. And with a certification in a particular field you can get work. You’re making a straw man argument. 

I have the poor man’s version, an E550 coupe. 90K miles and dead reliable for all of it. Quiet, quick (0-60 in 4.8), huge trunk. I do a weekly commute 0f 250 miles each way, its perfect for that. The S class maintenance isn’t a nightmare like, say, a 7 series, but it is a step up and not worth it on older cars.

First, comparing new vs used it silly. “If this cost 30% less they would be priced about the same”. Second, good luck fining a Slingshot used. Cycletrader shows 2 nationwide

Because in California motorcycles can use the HOV lane and during rush hour don’t pay tolls (you can also lane split, but I don’t think you could in this thing).