I fully intended to keep the car when the lease was up, so am I getting some of my money back when I cancel my lease?

A failed joke is a failed joke. Don’t choose this hill to die on.

A failed joke is a failed joke. Don’t choose this hill to die on.

...as opposed to taking things personally on the Internet?

...as opposed to taking things personally on the Internet?

Excess gelatin consumption by ODing on gummy candies causes pretty bad constipation. You’re thinking of the relentlessly destructive sugar-free ones, which do the opposite.

Excess gelatin consumption by ODing on gummy candies causes pretty bad constipation. You’re thinking of the…

No...the speed is additive. Simple vectors. 150-> <-70 is a closing speed of 220mph.

The impact damage may indeed be less severe than hitting the same car if it’s parked, because of inertia lightening the load. The car coming at you will try to stay in motion and transfer some of that kinetic energy in other…

Who said anything about a stationary object?

Hitting a stationary object head on doesn’t increase impact speed. When you’re going 150mph and another object like, you know, a car on the other side of the road, is coming at you at 70mph, then yes, the impact speed is additive. Pesky physics. 150+70=220. Pesky math.

its not hte govts job to keep people safe from themselves or eachother.

Robert Downey Jr. is a time traveler!

Dealer trade in CAN BE horrible. It can also be the easiest way into the best deal for a new car. Most of the time, KBB trade-in value is within about $2500 of KBB private party value, and if you can get an extra $1500 off the new car because the dealer is going to flip the used one at a higher profit, then frankly…

So then neither is it haggling if you comment that his competitor down the street quoted $1,550, and you’ll be doing business there as you walk out.

Are you perhaps confused about what “persistent” means, despite your curious decision to include an elementary definition of it?

If you’re not engaging in a multiple-round exchange over a period of time, there’s nothing to persist at doing. If the audio shop guy tells me that the speakers are $1600 and I say, “could…

For the vast majority of purchases and transactions, there is no value in either side to waste the effort. Major appliances, vehicles, real estate are sometimes worth it if the end result is actually an appreciable difference. Spending an hour with a cashier at Target trying to talk down a $99.95 Cuisinart blender is…

Ew, no. Seat design has absolutely no German influence in it. There’s a reason Chrysler and the Koreans started cribbing German lines and proportions. VW would be far better off with just returning to its pre-Americanized roots than with cheaping out on Seat faces.

The study’s reported range was 2 to 13x (with a median 4x) around what a compliant car produces, and 5 to 39x (with a median around 12x) what the test limit specifies. These results are less than what a diesel truck produces, far less than a delivery truck produces, and a fraction of what a semi or bus produces.

If…

The reason is lobbying. Emissions limits are pure horse trading. They’re not set based on environmental impact or health risk. They’re set based on politically-motivated negotiations. Auto manufacturers pushed for very low NOx limits that they were already in compliance with rather than tackling pollutants that would…

Claims like “spewing 40 times the legal amount” sounds scary but what is the legal amount? It’s also my understanding that Diesel is restricted even more than Gasoline in this country and i’ve read that “40 times the legal amount” = 3.5x over gasoline’s legal amount.

almost 600,000 Volkswagen cars on American roads spewing emissions up to 40 times the legal limit

I don’t think anyone chooses their husband based on his family name, so saying a hypothetical spouse “chooses” his or her husband’s name is a huge stretch.

Sam chooses a husband. Sam chooses whether to take the husband’s name. Sam chooses whether or not to retain the existing name (as a middle name, a hyphenated last…

Right, which is what makes it a non sequitur. You’re (correctly) saying the parking brake wouldn’t hold for the car in the video, but it’s a false notion that the person you’re quoting claimed that it would in the first place.