https://www.carsdirect.com/deals-articles/our-analysis-2018-vw-tiguan-259-mo-lease-fails-to-impress

I think you need to actually deliver a car before you can be considered a “car company”.

“...from about 150 recipes at the restaurant...”

It’s only taking photos or videos in class that raises FERPA issues. It doesn’t apply outside of the building where students are visible from public property.

It’s not.

As long as you’re standing on public property, anything you see can be legally photographed or videoed. Some states only make an exception to this if doing so might hurt a police officer’s feelings.

“So if you are open to brands that aren’t as popular right now there is still a chance of scoring a decent discount”

There’s pretty much no way to keep a bulkhead between the cab and bed sealed on this thing. And even if you could, the bulkhead would be right up against the tailgate in the “long” configuration, so you would have a big enclosed space that’s extremely difficult to load things in and out of.

Bit of a Freudian slip there...

Worst was going up to a bar in Canada back in college. After a thoroughly uneventful evening, my friend and I got horribly lost coming back, ran out of gas, and slept in my car. At first-light, we flagged someone down who kindly gave us a ride to a gas station and some garbled French directions back to the border. We…

This could have only happened to someone lazy enough to go bankrupt running casinos. He had a pretty much unlimited budget to roll out what should have been a slam-dunk product, but just couldn’t be bothered to close the deal.

Edit. On Jalopnik. That’s a good one.

Blame it on lean manufacturing. Back in the day a car would roll down the line with a build sheet and get whatever parts out of the bins. But that required a big inventory of parts. It was stupidly inefficient, and Pepperidge Farm also remembers how expensive it made cars. Now parts meet the cars as needed, which…

It’s because they don’t really want you to buy the car. Now that automatics return better fuel economy than manuals, every manual that gets shipped lowers the fleet average. My guess is that those add-ons have a low margin, and offering a manual wouldn’t make financial sense if they were included. Particularly since…

They probably also consider themselves textual originalists.

Not all TPMS systems use direct pressure measurement. Many use an indirect method based on wheel speed. It’s not as precise, but it’s much cheaper and also makes swapping wheels for the winter less of a headache.

The Saab parking mirror. A little button next to the power mirror controls would tilt the passenger side mirror down to look at the curb. Pushing it again returned the mirror to its previous location.

See also: honorary degrees.

Most of them are probably taking a beating, but that wouldn’t fit the site’s anti-dealership narrative.

There’s also some serious misunderstanding about use of the word “profit” here. Sure the difference between purchase/invoice price and sale price is up, but volume is way down. This only translates to “raking in profits” if you have zero overhead.