I'm gonna take issue with the Brodozer comments. I can't defend the rednecks who drag their knuckles and breathe through their mouths, but most I've seen in my life (disproportionately represented in places like central MD and the FL panhandle) are obnoxious, but usually covered in mud, scuffs, and probably deer…

Lease the 228i. Its the car you like. It's cheaper each month, and you always have a buyout option. Cars are improved every single year. The 228i is no doubt the better car than the 128i. If you're worried about building equity, then buy it out at the end. You'll be the sole owner and know where its been and whats…

So the front end looks...odd..

But that is really my point. You do not have to pay any over mileage charge. And no not because they will waive the fees for you.

You sound like my Dad - he opens up the hood on a modern car and says, "what is all this crap? Back in the old days, you could see straight through to the GROUND."

In before this entire site starts posting about how "Leasing a car is stupid and for idiots and for stupid idiots who don't like money"

Leasing (and buying cars that came off a lease) is one of the most clever things you can do if you're smart in what you're buying.

Any trailer that weighs anything even remotely close to 30,000lbs is going to have it's own brakes, so the truck's brakes only need to stop the weight of the empty truck + the tounge weight added (which for a 30,000lb fifth wheel with a 15% pin weight will be 4500#). That's still a lot of weight (probably pushing…

It's a standard that makes the ratings directly comparable. Whatever the weights are don't matter, just that they're the same. If you're towing 30,000 lbs, does an extra 150lbs (.5%) really make a difference?

Also in the Not-Acceptable-Recovery-Methods category...

Not all of us live in Portland you fucking hippie. I DD and twin turbo LMM that gets 11mpg and it is great. Nothing wrong with it at all. Drives down roads and highways just like your smart for 2 does.

WTF are most people doing with these things? I've towed big ass hay wagons around with the old Dodge Power Wagon's with the 318 and those wagons are pretty damn heavy. Is this to let people say they've saddled up the biggest baddest steed in the barn, because at some point the capabilities out weigh the real need…

There is too much ambiguity in "best". Also, best what? Compact? heavy duty? half ton?