You could get an airport with all the buildings for $3 million out in the sticks. Once. Now you can’t because private equity has been allowed to run rampant across all aspects of life. There are some places in the US where you can still get a few acres for relatively cheap, but your neighbors are cooking meth in a…

I had the worst accident of my teens in a white Pontiac 6000 that was owned by a priest. He brought it into the shop for a brake job. He didn’t want all the brakes, just the minimal - front pads swapped out ASAP. They were down to the metal, so the fluid probably was low in the reservoir. Long story short, I forgot to…

You don’t/I don’t see these every day. I do see BMW 2002's quite a lot, which this is sorta like the Japanese version of, so that makes it even better. Look at the interior and the friggin headliner of all things. Aside from a good cleaning and mechanical work/tires/etc, this doesn’t look like it’s in bad shape. NP. 

You are not supposed to wash it __without a hazmat suit__.

OK it looks really horrible with those wheels, like something that will be blowing stop signs and red lights all night, but for the person cross-shopping used AMGs and used Bentleys, this is a great price. Set aside the $50k you saved not buying the Bentley and use it for maintaining this one. NP.

This is most likely. This is the kind of thing the dealerships are unable to figure out because it requires thinking instead of replacing failed parts.

It’s an opossum in the bell housing.

In general, I’d start at the load (starter) and work back to the source, checking voltage and current. However, I bet in this case there’s nothing wrong with the wiring. Diesel engines have high compression. They need pretty good starters to crank that engine. If there is a mechanical issue with the engine, the…

40%! no, that’s a bridge too far. For used cars though, the sticker price can get inflated RAPIDLY when it comes to signing time. I have seen stuff like 13k -> 20k and 23k -> 32k. Of course you have to strike out the line items and say “come again?” a few times before you get it down to JUST taxes and document fees.

No car or truck ever gets delivered for the sticker price. Always add a percentage for:

I agree. The aluminum panels will hopefully never rot, and the steel parts that are prone to rusting are all visible - the frame and some other pieces that things attach to. If they do show rust, wire brush them and spray then black again with Rust Reformer or whatever. I have the 3.5 NA V6, which probably won’t last…

I just got a 2015 F150 with cloth bench seats, tactile controls, and an in-dash cd player. It also has a column-shifter instead of the stupid console shifter. But it is 8 years old, so maybe it doesn’t count. It still feels way too good/fancy for a pickup.

Thats the thing - I rented a 9-5 for a 500-some mile road trip once. It was great. But the reason I rented it was because the other option was a Cadillac Cimarron with a loud exhaust leak that topped out at 60mph. The Saab would do 115 around trucks without complaint and it had really good seats. At the rental place I…

“why Lucid made it”

At this point, how hard can they scrape the bottom of the barrel? They’re trolling the celebrity detox clinics for warm bodies.

I don’t understand it either. If you see ONE pro/am dance competition, you will see how awful this crap is compared to people who are committed to it. I feel bad for the washed-up celebs and D-listers who they pulled out of the drunk tank for this show. It may be their last shot at screen time. It’s painful to watch. 

People all “reduce speed appropriate to conditions” at different rates/times, hence pileups. Yeah this kind fog is dangerous. Not much you can do but hope the person behind you is ALSO taking the same action as you, and the person in front of you is too. That’s a lot to ask of humans who can’t communicate or see each…

Edison Motors

“There was people yelling and screaming, running down the hallway with life vests”

An old oil lamp? Oh, fragments of an old oil lamp. No djinn trapped in there.