This is Jalopnik. The only thing a contributor needs to know is that dealers suck. How they function is irrelevant.

With average inventory at about a week’s supply, I don’t think it’s possible for the bubble to burst fast enough for anyone to get caught significantly overstocked.

“A four-door Volvo 240 would have been much more practical and about as good on gas, but they were niche players, at best.”

But there was a Pontiac version if you wanted sporty.

But, remember that X% was based on looking at how many of the early vaccine recipients, who were surrounded by unvaccinated people, developed a case. As vaccine uptake increases, the exposure landscape shifts. If you reach 100% vaccination, then all infections will necessarily be breakthroughs, but if the vaccine…

While the vaccination rate in India is low, their case count during the last surge is thought to be short by as much as a factor of ten. The lack of a big delta surge probably just means that it isn’t good at re-infecting people.

“same level of virus in their noses” No, it was same amount of viral RNA. RNA is what we can measure easily, but it’s not the same as viable virus and cannot be used to conclude whether someone is or is not able to infect others.

It certainly helps that most modern manuals pretty much are automatics. Hill assist so you don’t have to rev coming off of a stop, plus automatic rev matching to make you feel like your fancy heel-toe moves are actually doing something.

If he thinks that the spare tire is full sized, there’s no chance that he knows about the telescoping steering column.

More importantly, you can’t get the manual with the 2.5, only the 2.0.

I think the governor made it very clear that anyone who spoke up would be fired.

The used car market always has some distribution in demand for cars of different ages and mileages. For the next decade there’s going to be a rolling dip in the supply. It’s not going to throw things off to the point where ‘21s are selling for more than ‘22s at the same instant in time, but a ‘21 will most likely sell…

“As we have said before, now is a great time to shop for a car if you hate getting a good deal or having any leverage.”

Not that I’d pay for either, but I’d rather have to live with that painting than having eaten the meatloaf at Mara Lago.

And that unidentifiable aroma wafting from the HVAC is terroir.

“Nothing is better than an Alpha!”

Yeah, there’s no “jumping to safety” or “bailing out” here. The momentum of a human body going in a straight line at 55mph is such that it’s going to keep following that line no matter what kind of ninja moves you think you might have.

I think about the only difference is that on a motorcycle, he would have been wearing a helmet.

You can’t get a true “base model” sedan any more either, but inflation-adjusted prices have held fairly constant. I think most of the average cost increase in pickup trucks is the move towards almost all crew cabs and the near death of the compact segment.

That’s true for cars, but not for trucks: