I was accepting nothing else when I bought a 15 Mazda6 2 years ago. The sad thing is the service manager said “Wow a manual! We haven’t had one of these in with one yet!” and this was a year and a half into the new generation of these cars. :(

The Lions would love you to come on down and join them for the record of utter failure and futility. Misery loves company.

Honestly as that season progressed I was so angry at them as a Lions fan that I actually WANTED them to lose them all.

I never thought I would want push button start or proximity key but my 15 Mazda6 has it and I think it’s now my favorite feature of the car. I FUCKING LOVE IT. The only time I take my key out of my pocket is when I’m changing clothes. I don’t need to dig in my pocket to find the fob to unlock the car or open the…

Ironic that you’re making this point, because it’s pretty much the opposite of what the article is talking about. Is it better to be a fan of a dynasty like the Patriots with fans who can’t even remember the last time they sucked, and to expect that they will make the playoffs each year and be in contention for the…

Apparently the price of scrap metal really SUCKS these days.*

*pun intended

Wondering the same, this sounds like a good Steve Lehto article.....

This should seriously become an Episode of Portlandia. I’m totally picturing Fred Armisen doing this. Only I would want them to embelish it a bit and show him doing a bunch of errands in it and finally returning it later.

As long as the government doesn’t regulate them out or make the safety inspections so stringement you will always still see someone driving a rusted out, flaming POS, deathtrap car down the road. Cars with greater crash ratings and better, more advanced safety systems will eventually trickle down to the poorest…

It’s probably disgusted by how fat and bloated it’s gotten and how much weight it has put on compared to its parents.

Agreed. It’s gotten pretty ridiculous with all of the “fake aero” looking lower facias with massive fake corner air vents that are really solid plasic grilles meant for a fog light housing. If you’re going to style it that way at least have some functional brake ducting there. That’s not to say that 90% of the cars…

Well said. I bought my first brand new car 2 years ago and I never once said what I wanted to pay a month. I didn’t even mention the possibility that I wanted to trade in what I owned at the time either. I negotiated the price online and I never set foot in the door until I signed the paperwork and picked up my…

Glad to see they took some pitty on you and let you off.

My dumbest one was racing a friend of mine at a stop light and there was a cop hiding in the back of a parking lot a few buildings down the block. We did it at the first light too, but the second time I wanted to be a real dumbass and squeal the tires too.

The…

Shit that’s a great deal! I’d be all over that.

Agreed. In the Midwest this is definitely in great shape, I just don’t trust the issues it has and I don’t think you can justify that price. IMO it’s a $3,000 car as it sits. With no mechanical issues and a clean interior I’d give him closer to his asking price.

HaHa, owning almost any VW is a form of sadomasichism! Yet I continue to do it. :(

I’m an 84 Rabbit GTI owner so I want to NP this thing with all of my heart, but not for what he is asking. I would call this a $2,500 - $3,000 car tops IMO. The wheel bearings mean he is just being cheap and lazy. I’m not sure what it would take to get the gauge to work since I’ve never done a 16v swap (although…

It’s stuff like this that would be an automatic turn off for buying a car. If it was an “easy fix” then why didn’t you do it? I’ll always assume that it’s broken and you are too lazy or cheap to fix it.

I’ve only sold one car with any known problems, and I was up front in my ads and in talking with potential buyers…

Amen to that! I am thrilled to no longer have to justify this dirty stubborn asshole. Haynesworth 2.0 hasn’t even made much of an impact in Miami. I burned his jersey the day he signed with Miami and I was thrilled to do it.

Fuck this shit. If you aren’t smart enough to manage your lineup properly then it’s on you. I’d quit any league where this is allowed. If I see anymone in my long term nfl.com league doing this I’m voting that we switch to another site next year.

One more good learning stick story to share.

My friend in college was living with a deadbeat roommate that was getting into some pretty shady shit and one day they got pulled over about 1.5 hrs. from home in the roommate’s car. Turns out he had a bench warrant for his arrest for some reason. So Steve was in the middle…