Not true at all. Some companies include them on effectively all their cars (mostly disposable German cars that you should get rid of before the warranty expires), but almost everyone else has them either as an option or with a delete option. I'm looking through the configurators for a bunch of cars that cost under 50k…

Really? How much does it add? I thought that it ultimately hurt resale as they always end up leaking.

Sure, Kia and Hyundai made pretty pitiful excuses for cars for a long time but that is no longer the case. They're very competitive within their segments, and offer one of the best warranties in the game.

When I'm on the East Coast I always driving like an octogenarian in a gutless car. There's no other way to drive there safely, especially in the metro areas. In fact, I protested the stupid that was driving in the cities there so loudly that my employer either forced their local salespeople to drive me around when I…

The problem is that all traffic courts are kangaroo courts. If they actually had to prosecute you like they do most people for crimes with similar punishments, they wouldn't be able to bother at least 95% of drivers. I expect a freaking jury if they have any possibility of punishing me with jail.

If you think that's bad, try Phoenix, AZ. I refuse to return to that cesspool of a state. They have huge freeways marked with ludicrously-low speed limits and speed traps EVERYWHERE. They extorted many hundreds of dollars out of me for driving with one of their specially-marked rental cars (the state has stickers for…

The run between Vegas and LA goes from reasonably fast (75-80) to insane (flow of traffic 95+) for reasons unbeknownst to anyone. I have no idea why it varies so much, but having made that drive dozens of times I assure you it can be quite wide.

Seriously. The only time I saw a ticket in years of driving in CA was for ludicrously exceeding the speed limit (35 over) and the cop knocked it down to just a fine because I wasn't driving recklessly, just reminding me to drive safe and keep it within 10 of the limit. 15-20 over is a normal speed on freeways in metro…

I don't go below medium rare, except with fish.

Curious. I have a weird habit with guns, cars, and bicycles - I buy them, enjoy them, then leave them with someone that'll enjoy and use them. Of course, I also know that I can call up my buddy and "borrow" that built truck or go shooting, while my parents will always have a decent car for me when I'm there.

You probably are Gen-X. See the discussion. They cooked the years for a headline.

It's also confusing when you notice that the young end of the 18-year group are in college or just starting careers. If they really want to give useful stats, they need to produce a purchases-per-1000 number for each age group for every year they're comparing.

You're forgetting the comically inflated dream values on houses that are now decades older than when they were last purchased and often in terrible shape. We're not stupid.

Seriously. 10+ years of living with your parents before you're out of debt (maybe 20+ years in some cases). You do need a car, though, so that's the big purchase.

My recollection was that they already separated ~78-82 or ~80-84 from Gen-X by the mid-late-80s, when they called us the "MTV generation". Later they turned those after 1980 into "Echo Boomers" as they noticed a small boom starting around 1980 through the early 90s. The "Millennial" moniker was added in the late 90s…

Nobody born before 1980 could be, but it gets fuzzy up through about 88. If you don't remember a world before you had PCs at home (not counting drugs or other causes of memory loss), you're definitely a Millennial. That said, I don't know why they stretched us and squished Gen-X so much, except to get a fake headline.

I bet more examples of this era of Camry made it into the second decade of the next century than any other car without a 3800 under the hood.

The same thing is going on everywhere, especially for Japanese cars. They lose so little value that you can often get a new one for less than a used one with the same options. The entire market is upside-down.

Now, with all the other things I liked about the car, the infotainment system was the most backward part of the car. It was, by far, the most difficult thing to use and required a lot of manual searching to do many common tasks.

By the way, that "Pre-Safe" thing is really cool. I've never seen anything like it in any other car.