Tax breaks aside, there aren’t any rare earth metals in the Tesla battery or motor. Lithium and cobalt aren’t that rare. Maybe in the speakers or headlights. There are more rare earths in an internal combustion car, since those require platinum for the catalytic converters and stuff like iridium in spark plugs.

Probably the best recommendations from the “experts” I’ve seen thus far... I’m a little disappointed. Where’s Jason?

That was the truly bizarre part, not even necessarily the murder. The original article I read at the time didn’t even mention where the guy worked, I just remembered the name because of the conversation my brother and I had.

There was this one time when our car salesman turned out to be a murderer.

I didn’t realize these were once so “affordable”. The top dawg 50 years ago was the 1967 Porsche 911 S, “as tested”, $7,255.00. That’s $53,921 in today’s dollars.

Thanks, Tom!

I would argue that Assad’s violent and outsized response to protests did more to destabilize his regime than the US ever did, at least under the Obama administration.  On the contrary, the US provided VERY limited support to the rebels, the majority consisting of food and non-combat supplies (although some weapons…

Interesting analysis, but isn’t it mostly irrelevant? The question is one of legality. I’m no attorney, but I suspect that franchise laws requiring cars to be sold through franchised dealerships violate the Interstate Commerce Clause.

Yeah I don’t know why I posted that one, not my taste at all. There’s a ton of options though, on Autotrader there’s over 100 listed under $80,000.

I’m with Tom all the way on this one. 997 Turbo with a 6 speed, asking price is only $69,000. Only 31,000 miles on the clock,

Lighten up, Francis. On the scale of “Terrible Things Done To Cats”, this is maybe a 2 out of 10.

Not my story, but my dad doesn’t read Jalopnik, so here’s his: When my dad was growing up their neighbor had a cat. This cat was guilty of many offenses, but the primary car-related offense was to stroll through mud puddles and paint my dad’s family’s car with paw prints. Every morning the cat was perched on top of…

Somewhat expected, when all the crap started going down you had to figure that heads would roll. Out of curiosity, who did Tesla purchase Grohmann from? Was it still owned by Grohmann or had he already sold out to other interests?

Also I should add, I have two cars - one is a 16 year old Acura I’m selling tomorrow. My current car is a 12 year old Infiniti G35 I bought out of a salvage auction and fixed myself. I can easily afford a car in the $20 - $25,000 range, but I’m way to cheap. I’m the last person in the world who would lease a car.…

Take it from someone who bought a sub-$5,000.00 car while in school - he should definitely lease. I spent $4,250 on an 8 year old Camry with 120,000 miles on it... and then proceeded to spend about $3,000 over the next two years to keep it running.

Luke, take $150.00 from your car budget and purchase one of these: A Bike Rack!

Knowing Oregon, I have no doubt that they consider this “practicing” engineering and that’s why he was fined. Although licensing boards in general are usually populated with mini-tyrants with Napoleon complexes. This law is likely in violation of the 1st Amendment, and is definitely a violation of common sense. …

Wrong. He’s an engineer, simply because he isn’t licensed in Oregon doesn’t mean he can’t identify himself as such.

I’m willing to wager he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Even if it deployed, there’s a chance he slid right off it... or it didn’t deploy, who knows.

Terrible sales from 2008-2012 led to a seriously over-inflated used car market. In 2010 I went to a GM (don’t remember which brand) dealer who didn’t even put prices on the cars, they printed a list out each day with car prices and the sales person had to walk around with you. 2-3 year old used cars were priced…