I bought one post-dieselgate because it was a well-optioned car for a great price and with a better warranty than the gas version, and most of my car usage is long road trips where the diesel engine is at optimal performance (mid-40s mpg on the highway in the mountains).

I live in DC (well, Alexandria currently but used to live downtown) and have never had a problem finding diesel for my Golf TDI. I mean, maybe 50% of places don’t have diesel because inside the Beltway gas stations tend to be much smaller than further out in the suburbs, but there are still lots of gas stations so you…

I really liked the gameplay of Control and breezed through the game pretty quickly, but admittedly I paid very little attention to the plot. You mention “The Nail” and honestly I don’t remember that at all. Mostly I just remember thinking “if this person is the new head of this agency, how come she knows absolutely…

I wasn’t allowed to see Batman in theaters (I was 9), but by the time it came out on video (which my parents did let me rent on release day), I knew all the characters and most of the scenes and plot because I had collected all the trading cards. Trading Cards. For a movie. And they were insanely popular. I seem to…

This latest Matt Brown Honda swap is not what I was expecting but I’m excited to see where he goes with it!

Came here to say this. I’m also addicted to Roger Webb’s wood-turning videos.

I’ve always wondered why Mongoose let this movie completely shit all over their brand....In the movie, the *owner of the company* (and his groveling assistant) is the cheating, backstabbing, asshole villain! I was a GT fanboi at the time and for absolutely no reason other than this movie I thought Mongoose was garbage.

Depleted uranium is almost the same density, and cheaper! Radiation wouldn’t be an issue, but a block of DU bouncing down a race track might make some sparks and catch fire (it’s pyrophoric), which would make races much more interesting tbh.

A week impound and license suspended? This car should be confiscated and destroyed and the kid should permanently lose his license...at the very least, make it like 1 year suspension for every 20km over the limit.

Yes I’m sure the auto industry will be fine when 90% of those 84 month/6 month deferred payment auto loans come due and don’t see a single payment. I have a feeling lots of the people who are currently buying with those deals are a hair’s breadth from unemployment and insolvency over the next few months. We’re still…

Why do more “wholesome” (meaning, those that claim to be less processed), and soft drinks in particular, seem to go out of their way to say they’re made with “cane sugar” when really the key distinction is “sugar” vs. “HFCS”? Can’t say I’ve ever seen “beet sugar” on a label (to include bags of granulated sugar), but I…

I have a 30-ish inseam and am somewhere between flat-foot and low tip-toes on my 2015 Multi. The bigger problem is getting a leg over it with the panniers on if I’m wearing tight-ish jeans, but that’s what pegs are for (kinda).

I have a 2015 Mutley S and it’s the first motorcycle I’ve owned where I don’t feel like it’s not sporty or utilitarian enough. Had a Street Triple...sporty, but impractical. Had a BMW F800ST...practical, but boring. The Mutley is just perfect in an every day sense. It’s a bit heavy in a parking lot, but that weight…

It’s called a mutual fund.

Financing doesn’t stretch non-existent income. If my car payment is 5% of my monthly net income, I have the income. But I’m also not going to put aside a huge lump of cash each month to save to pay cash for a car, when I can save that money at 7% and finance a car at 4%. A financial advisor will pretty much never tell…

When I bought my car (used) last year, they defaulted me to a 60 month loan...it had been a while since I bought a used car, but it used to be that 36 months was pretty standard. The finance guy at the dealership was surprised when I asked for a shorter term and the shortest they would give me was 48 months.

Seems like the Brits had more of a colonial siege mentality to exploration, like “we’re the most powerful nation on earth and we can subdue anything through brute force.” Whereas Amundsen was heavily inspired by the Inuit and took a much softer and more thoughtful approach. The more things change, the more they stay…

It separates the Amundsens from the people you haven’t heard of because they never made it back.

Yep, this was my first thought...the real crisis isn’t car sales, but existing car loans...both sub-prime and the long-ass ones that ensure you’re underwater for the entire time you own the car.

My brother-in-law is a salesman at a big dealership...they do a ton of volume so I expect that they’ll last longer than most. But they treat their salespeople like absolute garbage so I expect that when the time comes, the sales staff will be cut mercilessly and remaining staff will be forced to pick up any slack and…