Brent Peltomaa valued that cat more than he valued his life.
Michael Campbell valued punishing a thief more than he valued his freedom.
They were all in love with dying. They were drinking from a fountain
that was pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain.

It’s meth heads all the way down

Oregon has a bill being considered that would only allow scrap dealers to buy catalytic converters from licensed businesses and require them to provide the VIN from the car it came from.

Haven’t accomplished a damn thing in our lives? I once did that thing where you put a pile of coins on your elbow and swing your hand down to catch them, and I’m pretty sure I got, like, 75% of those coins. A lot clattered under the couch, but still. Checkmate. 

We’re talking about the Reuters and Bloomberg articles where VW and Renault have gotten into trouble for cheating on diesel emissions, right? The article is about a VW executive lying about it to the German legislators.

LeafSpy exists for this exact purpose; you can get all the data you could possibly need on a Leaf battery’s true state. $30 gets you the app and an OBDII scanner. Compared to $300 for the PPI on a gas-powered car, it’s a steal.

Personally, I’d PAY $50 to have it permanently disabled in any vehicle I was buying. So really, I’d be $100 ahead in this scenario.

Also, Intel spend $20 billion over the past 5 years buying back their own stock rather than investing in their business .

As an EV driver the answer is really simple. Don’t by a Leaf. The lack of thermal regulation on them causes massive degradation of the battery and they’re causing unnecessary concern about other EVs because Nissan is awful at EVs. I drive a Chevy Bolt. There’s a guy out there who has well over 100,000+ miles on his,…

Do you know what the cause for this is? Rich people buy new cars a lot?

You know what they say - there’s nothing quite as inconspicuous as a conspicuous car. 

Which Youtube “restorer” will wind up with this one, I wonder?

Yep, that was my first thought - somehow, during it’s ‘repair’ it magically sprouted a completely different paint job and options list, and all of the major serial-numbered parts spontaneously swapped themselves out.

Is this the 2.5 liter or the 1.6 (1.8?)?
If it is the 2.5, and the cats you mentioned are the pre-cats up near the exhaust port, there could be bigger monsters lurking. The substrate in those pre-cats breaks down and gets ingested in the ‘suck’ cycle due to extended overlap on the exhaust cam. This was done to…

It still behooves you to do the math. With interest rates as low as they are on new vehicle loans, you might not be saving much by purchasing used. Granted, if you're looking at something that's more than a few years old, the comparison is pretty much moot. 

I have a nice basic 98 ranger. I'm thinking of selling it because of this bubble. Pretty sure I could get twice what I paid. Then get a kei truck.

I inherited the mindset from my grandfather. Current car is an ‘05 LR3 with about 135K on it. I still love the thing.  It’s mostly been very good to own, but some years I feel like someone who refuses to leave an abusive partner.

I’ve gotten worse gifts. Just sayin’.