I had the experience of being given a Rogue as an “or similar” alternative vehicle to a requested rental. It was so boring I don’t even remember what my original rental vehicle request was. I don’t even remember where I drove it or why.

I was a lot boy at a Toyota dealership when the first of these arrived, and when it came time for a run to the DMV, did I sign one out? Why yes, I did.

“We’ve come to the point where American business expects all profit to be privatized and all risk to be socialized.”

When did we become giant coal slaves to “the economy”? Must keep consuming, must keep consuming... even if it is bad for us... because the economy. Must feed the beast.

..... have you looked around lately?

Gentleman (and ladies) we all will be 89 someday. Hearing that fucking is still a thing at 89 brings me nothing but joy.

A 99 year old man goes to the doctor saying “Doc, you gotta help me. My 27 year old supermodel wife is pregnant, what am I going to do?”

How do people farm and do construction in parts of the world where oversized North American pickups are not prevalent?

People who do tough dirty work for a living NEED a chrome-plated, $57,000 Sierra HD? Hmmmmm

I think we all realize that trucks are necessary for lots of jobs, and are thankful for their utility.

LOP at a real farmer moving produce with a light duty pickups. 300 round trips with an open bed later and his produce has all rotted.

Vans are more practical for pretty much everything you just mentioned.

I was wondering the same thing but he could just mean the mortgage payment

We have a culture and a market that punishes large corporations for cash-on-hand. Until we change the idea that long-term security and rainy day planning is “inefficient”, they will never operate by the same rules that people should operate by relative to personal finance. This crisis is exposing the worst of the…

I don’t wish bad things for a single worker or anyone dependent on them, but it’s hard to watch all these companies that work only for the next quarter’s profit, and don’t care one whit for the long term impacts of their behavior, panic at not making money for 2 weeks, and to not experience a little bit of…

I agree. An expansive lexicon is paramount to producing properly pleasing prose.

you two make a good pair. 

I love Jalopnik and its posters, but damn, sometimes some of them act like $25k+ for a car ain’t no big deal.

I have a friend at a Houston area GM dealer. He says that his sales area is busier than normal.