The biggest thing for me is easily verifiable lies. Sometimes you can see this in an ad. It might be a claimed feature that is missing, but described in detail by the seller. More often, it’s when seeing/test driving the car.

I have found it often means it was wrecked, off the road for a long time, and repaired without any official record of the damage.

That’s a really low price on the 911 unless there’s something about ‘78s that is particularly undesirables. Makes me question the ad’s legitimacy.

I play COD and can say there are all types of people that play it, but it certainly attracts more than its share of the dregs of humanity.

In now way do I care about Elon Musk, perhaps the opposite, but the implication in the article is that Tesla stock is down solely because of Elon’s actions, namely his various sales of stock. klone121 is, correctly, pointing out that there are additional factors affecting Tesla’s stock price including a generally…

1992 Mercury Sable. Looked like a suppository and ran like the removal  of a suppository. Got lemon-lawed eventually.

Have a few bad mechanic stories, but my favorite story is actually a good mechanic acting like a bad mechanic.

Your take is logical, but I think you may be underestimating the power of the cult of personality.

“That’s because every time I drive a Telluride, I wonder why anyone would ever buy any other midsize SUV”

In most professional salaried jobs, 40 hours spread out any which way over a week would be a huge reduction in actual hours worked or expected.

I instantly recognized that commercial. Seems impossible it’s 36 years old just based on how familiar it is in my memory. 

“further proof of the dealership’s willingness to lie in this case”

This is a dangerous distinction you’re trying to make. It essentially encourages companies like Nintendo to farm out work to subcontractors with the idea that an arms-length relationship absolves them of any responsibility to the contractor. It doesn’t. 

Often true about BMWs, but these are comparatively simple, easy to maintain and repair and parts are plentiful and cheap. As someone else mentioned, I would just check the subframe welds in the trunk.

Great read, Lauren. I had done some minor wrenching by trial and error as young as probably 12 (fixed our snowblower, for example). I got seriously into it after college when I bought an old motorcycle, but didn’t have any money to take it to a mechanic. It was late ‘90s, early ‘00s, so there were the beginnings of…

“This has always been the case, but dealers will sometimes claim they have to add GAP coverage to all auto loans...”

The issue, as I understand it, is that they are selling vehicles for which they themselves do not have the title. Not so much that the title is sitting around in their offices and they’re not transferring it, but rather they don’t have it at all.

I starred you, but then just looked at the shitposter’s post again and it seems he/she’s saying the same thing as you. He/she says the insinuation in the article that she was stopped because she is black (which we know she is not) is “patently false” and then, sarcastically, says “Why let the Truth get in the way of a…

I had a 1991 S-10 with the 2.8 V6 and that engine was a dog with nothing in the truck except me. Don’t even want to think about how slow it is with the added space/weight and 7 passengers in it.

It’s a reference to the movie, The Matrix, in case you’re not being sarcastic.