Renault has offered 4 wheel steering for a long time now even in their compact cars - no one really cared all that much. Now that Mercedes and Audi do it in their land barges, it’s a big deal all of a sudden...

Cars have been around for over 150 years, yet we still don’t have globalized crash testing and vehicle regulations.

They actually opened a dealership several years ago here and that was my first question. Not so much the affordability but who wants one? The only people driving them are the help, and if you are under 70, you probably don’t have a chauffer or chauffeuse.

I hardly see how giving the Spirit of Ecstacy BELL BOTTOMS will modernize their image.

Are we just gonna gloss over the fact that they worked with a company called Pentagram?

Actual Silicon Valley tech worker here....
There are good and bad things about the industry.

A: The good:
1: You can get paid VERY well. A senior engineer can easily clear $250-$500k a year. Now imagine a couple both making that income and the cost of living is less an issue

2: Yes- the level of innovation here is very…

Since May 1, 2020.

What, you expect Lifehacker to write articles for the bottom 80% of income earners?

Yeah, I’m inclined to agree now. At the time, it was all I knew, and it worked out ok, I guess. The rates I got were marginally better than my savings account, so at least I was earning something.

401k is NOT the place for a down payment. You will not be able to get that money back out before you retire. IRA is also a bad choice.

IMHO, CDs are fucking awful right now. The rates on them are NOT worth locking your money up for years at a time. I would not recommend them to anyone. About the only sane reason to get one is to force yourself not to touch the money, and I’d argue the CD is a band-aid around the real problem.

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The problem is, you can’t. For a comparable 3 row “SUV” from any other manufacturer, the sticker starts at $10k more to match the standard equipment list of either the Hyundai or the KIA. Combine that with a solid design that rivals most of the segment, and you have a pretty good incentive to wait 6 months + for an…

Because the Telluride beats those in every comaprison test. For the price you can't beat the interior quality, space, and innocuous driving characteristics. 

What’s confusing to me is that pretty much all of those guns look to be highly illegal to possess in the California. I’m going to have to assume they’re plugged up, inoperable replicas just for display, but still.

Oprah gave the world Doctors Oz and Phil. Never forget.

I don’t get it, either. These thing have had sticky high prices for a very long time.

My car cannot be better than my clients

Very interesting. Mitsubishi still sells to this segment of the market everywhere, but they don’t advertise it and certainly not to the same level as they did in the early-00s. They still have the Mirage, but that seems to be aimed at the aforementioned cheapskates.

You would be wrong. The Galant was the poster child for the era when Mitsubishi lost their mind on subprime buyers. Most of these cars that didn’t go to fleets were basically given away to people with bad credit that would never pay a dime of monthly payments on them, then resold as used cars on crazy subprime loans.…