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See I get worried about that because it could have a chilling effect on innovation. Tesla, as big a hype machine as it is, I am not sure could survive a tax of this nature. Amazon is a juggernaut and probably could absorb this problem, but amazon has it's own problems that might see it's market getting smaller if forced to address it's conflict of interest (i.e. antitrust) problem with both owning the marketplace and competing in it.

Maybe ask Not Brian, in the past every time I mentioned a commander he would chime in as to what a piece of shit they are. I think he owned one, but his was a 3.7.

I keep forgetting to add the Focus St but yeah, +1 on the Focus ST. Hell even look at the FIST (Fiesta ST) I am not a mustang guy, I thought 2014 was the first year of the S550, but looking it up now it's the last year of the S197, so yeah, include the 2014. Knowing mike, he is going to probably have to finance this car and I wanted to put the 2008-2010 in there because they are still rwd, v8 mustangs, but would probably offer a better value money wise than the coyote ones. If you look hard enough you can find clean, under 100k miles 2009 for like $9-$12K, but most coyote powered s197s are still trading in the $16-20K range. I'd prefer 100hp too, but knowing that he just took on the debt of buying a condo I'm trying to advocate him not getting into more debt. Personally I would rather he find the cleanest new edge SN95 he can for $5K and pay cash for that, but he won't do it. I didn't mention the 06-07 cars because they would be harder to finance due to age and I hear they have rust problems.

A few notes on this: [*]S550: Mustang V6 MT - Nope. [*]2013:2014 Lincon MKZ - you have mentioned this before, but you know these are FWD right? even the AWD one runs front bias. It boggles my mind that this is an option and a GTi isn't. [*]Infinity G37 (weird... but I kinda like it more and more) - meh why not, this is at least halfway to what you want. [*]ND MX-5 - Miata Is Always The Answer for a reason. [*]Mazda 3 Hatchback MT - Again this is a consideration but a GTI isn't? Also no Speed3 no care, and that's it's own hassle. If you are going to look for a weird mazda stick, go find a manual mazda 6 sport wagon. [*]Dodge Challenger V6 MT (Because why the fuck not?) - Because it doesn't exist, that's why the fuck not. Seriously, v6 challenger is Auto only, manual is only available on the V8 cars. Now....I will say if you watch it carefully, Dodge does run sub $300 a month lease deals on R/T challengers (even the manual ones), and you can always turn your lease into a finance at the end of term (as bad an idea this is). you could sub this with a camaro v6 MT because that does exist, but everyone is going to want to know why you borrowed your girlfriend's car. [*]Doc's 86... because it looks sexy <3 - Fucking buy this already. Like right now. Why are you still reading this and not signing papers. Here is a new list: - VW Gti MK7 MT - Honda Accord Sport MT - Honda Civic Si - Miata (any generation) - Fiat 124 spider (Fiat is running a $4K off special on leftover 2018s, which puts the price down to $18K - 2008-2013 S197 mustang GT Track Pack MT. (Because you won't shut up about a mustang) - Kia forte koup Manual trans (probably the cheapest one here but if you can find a 2014 with less than 60k miles there will still be some warranty left on it.) - Toyota corolla hatchback MT (I think you can get these new in or close to your price range). Start there. focus on reliable, good value, reliable, sensible, easy to insure, reliable, cheap to own, and reliable. Good luck.

I'd take that deal under certain conditions: 1) The original justice department recommendations of felony charges against the head of Purdue are seen through to conviction and sentencing (instead of being brushed aside by the Bush administration). Additionally, those charges are brought against he Sacklers, and many other higher ups at purdue. not only do these people need to pay society for their crimes, but case law needs to be established that there is a firm hand and low tolerance for shenanigans when it comes to people's health. 2) In any other industry, if a manufacturer, or an affiliated association, took steps to interfere with third party safety measures for their product, there would be fines and successful lawsuits that would keep that industry in check. If GM made it easier for their cars to be used in hit and runs that killed pedestrians, there would be no end to the legal trouble they would be in, and yet gun manufacturers have enjoyed this quasi immunity while doing the same thing. It's the law of the land that when there is a foreseeable and reasonable negative outcome for a product that we hold the industry that makes that product accountable for those outcomes as a way to give incentive to the industry to act appropriately without further legislation. We do this for EVERY single goddamn industry except firearms. You don't want your personal liberty infringed, you don't want any more gun control laws - well here is how you get that and still work to decrease gun violence. $1mm per incident is unreasonable since it would cause almost all the manufacturers to go out of business right away, and the gun lobby is too well funded and efficient to ever let it be held to the same standards within the law now that it has enjoyed this special status for this long, and that is what makes it unrealistic. But I don't think it is unreasonable to hold manufacturers and the industry as a whole to the exact same standards we hold literally every other industry to in this country.

A Large part of the opioid crisis is the makers of the drug LYING to Doctors, Lying to the Public, actively hiding the information that contradicted their narrative that it was non-addictive, and generally acting in bad faith with respect to the american public. the worst part was, the Bush Administration pretty much forgave Purdue Pharma back in 2007 by giving them a lenient settlement deal with respect to all these charges so the federal government is now very limited in how they can hold Purdue accountable for this situation. Oxy and it's generic versions are an effective pain medication, and sometimes there is a justified use for them. However, you can't expect to undo 20+ years of over prescription and abuse overnight just because the risks are known now, esp when that door should never have been opened in the first place. More and more people are refusing opioids, but it's hard to do when many institutions have built their policies, and procedures around the drug thinking it was safer than it was. As people in recovery and treatment programs have found, refusing the drug is very difficult when hospital and physician staff aren't always transparent about what is in the medications they are prescribing, or are too overworked to look carefully enough at a patient's chart that states they are refusing opioids. none of this has anything to do with patients expectations of pain, but it has everything to do with patients expectations that their physicians and treating healthcare professionals act in their best interest. You pay a dr for their advance knowledge and at some point you have to put trust and faith in their actions - but how do you do that when they have been lied to too, and their protocols have been built on those lies and aren't changing fast enough? The healtcare industry is as big a victim in this as the patients - and it starts with holding Perdue and the Sackler Family accountable for their actions.

He's interesting. So far he's the only person talking about automation as a cause for unemployment that requires government intervention and solution. I'm not sure how he plans to pull of $1000 a month universal basic income, but my interest is piqued.

2000 psi is going to start stripping paint, so you won't use it at full blast. Most have a variable pressure knob, and you want to keep the PSI around 1200 with a spray head (not stream). I don't think a 2000 psi machine is overkill for a car because it all depends on the nozzles and you turn the pressure down. I had an old Karcher electric pressure washer, bought it back in 2004, still works fine. I left it with dad when I moved out here and he still uses it to wash the cars and blast the house. Takes a while, but it works. If you are doing a sidewalks and stuff (he isn't) you want one that is capable of going up to 3000 psi or higher which is where gas powered ones come in. Working off memory, I think wood is 500psi and siding is somewhere around 1500psi.

Don't be so precious, it's still a chevy, and you can treat it just like any other chevy. I don't know what this "upkeep" complaint is - just treat it the same as your RX8. tires will be more expensive, maybe brakes, but that's it. Vettes are fiberglass, so unless it saw only machine car washes and the owner's parked by feel, the outside it always going to look halfway decent. If the car was DD'ed in Ohio during the winter, then yes the metal frames underneath are going to look just like any other metal car from the same year. the difference between a vette and say a jetta is that it is more likely that the vette was parked during the winter and is less likely to be rusty underneath. Make sure you have the car inspected on a lift - this will quell those problems. A DD'ed c5 and a babied one are going to be about roughly the same price, so it pays to spend the time and find a babied one. Oddly Vette insurance is often cheaper for a lot of people, but again I would price it out before considering. Z4 is a good car. I am partial to the 2002-2008 E85/E86 cars, esp the coupes. They use the same naturally aspirated 2.5 and 3.0L inlines as the 3 series cars. they are BMW's so parts are going to be expensive and you are going to want to learn to work on them yourself. that being said I have a close friend who's a bmw tech back in NY and he has told me several times that these cars had the least amount of issues out of their whole line up - likely because they were less complex than other cars in their gen. If you are considering this, look for a 3.0i or 3.0si, I doubt the M roadster/coupe will be in your price range. If it were me I would look for a coupe, but those are unicorn rare in stick. maybe stay away from the germans though, if you are worried about upkeep on a C5. Compromise is why cars like the VW GTI, WRX, honda civic si, et al exist. Do you know why I liked to play with old cars when I was your age and younger? expense. I had a new (for the time) daily driver in my jeep (and blazer, and E34s) and could spend extraneous monies on real 60's musclecars to get that rumbly v8 noise. They were cheap to buy, easy to work on, parts were everywhere (for the most part), I could run classic insurance, and it was fun. Even the years where I was driving my GTO or the motorcycles almost every day, I still knew that if things went pear shaped I could get to work/school/wherever the next day because I had another car. I kind of see you heading that way, get something that still makes the stuff you want to do accessible but is reliable, like a miata, or a civic si, or a VW gti, or you know what...wasn't rally pat selling a Saabru on the site recently? Is that still for sale? maybe go look at that? I like this: https://mansfield.craigslist.org/cto/d/mansfield-2005-subaru-legacy-25-gt-wagon/6812298396.html A little out of budget but it costs to drive a unicorn: https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/d/oxford-bmw-z3-coupe/6813653878.html not related to this thread...is this Ben's car? https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/d/westerville-2006-bmw-z4-series-s54/6835467831.html

I love 1990-1999 454 suburbans, but not enough to offer $3K for a broken one. I genuinely hope all of the internet keeps lowballing this guy until that throbbing vein in his temple bursts.

Mike, before you actually go car shopping, go get an insurance quote on the cars on this list. IIRC you are still in your mid-20's which means the ins company might want to bend you over the rail for the premium on some of these cars. Since you are likely financing your $15K hot rod, you'll have to carry full coverage and that can get expensive quick. No point in buying a car if you can't afford to insure said car. Personally I like the Toybaru twins, but I think even they have higher than average insurance premiums. Don't take this the wrong way, but I just don't think you've had enough experience driving "high performance" cars to jump into driving a 450hp sports car in ohio winter to get somewhere. You and I have had this conversation before, you need a reliable, not think about it, daily commuter beater that you can abuse and neglect while focusing on the other stuff you are doing. You are working with Kevan on his Lemons car (presumably you'll get to drive that, right?), and now you have the toy project car in your Rx-8. Get like a stick honda civic or a VW GTI if you don't want to be bored to death while you Ls swap the RX8 (your new place has a garage, right?) just my thoughts. If you really still want to push for a rwd v8 car, then my suggestion is don't finance anything - go buy an old but clean, cheap, unmodded, SN95 new edge mustang and have fun. It's not 400+hp and parts are pretty cheap. something like this: https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/d/centerburg-2000-mustang-gt/6828963931.html

saw that and then Luke Perry too. It's like the 90's are dying off fast around here.

Honestly, considering you are planning on towing more than "occasionally" and in various different environments, spend the money and put the bigger radiator and trans cooler in, hook up an aftermarket trans temp gauge, and send it.

on old stuff where machine tolerances were not as great, metallurgy wasn't all that super, and cars had big ol' honking carbs that occasionally would wash your cylinder walls down with gasoline, a break in period was part of the process of a new car or engine assembly to make sure you didn't lunch something down the road. In this modern age, I question whether it is necessary at all. Fuel and oil control has gotten a lot better, tolerances are more precise and the rangers are smaller, better materials has led to less heat expansion and mfg processes have improved how it gets accounted for in the design. It's a different world. The last "new" vehicle I can remember being around that had a serious break in period and had demonstrable catastrophic results if you didn't was a 2009 Royal Enfield Bullet with the AVL engine. these were basically 1957 design engines with minor updates over the years, were air cooled so they ran really loose tolerances, had carbs, and were made in a country known for using metals of questionable metallurgy to meet a price point. It was so bad with those bikes that it wasn't hard to find a blown engine RE that wasn't properly broken in with less than 1000 miles on it. As soon as they went to the Austrian designed modern EFI engine, the break in procedure stopped being a religion and the engine failures stopped being an issue. Engine break in really starts at operating temp, because that is when heat expansion is at it's fullest and the real wear will start to happen. I don't know where this idea came from that you need to be "gentile" with an engine during break in, the engine needs to experience the forces it will see during hard use to really get a good wear pattern going. the worst thing you can do for a new car is to hold it at steady rpms, in top gear on the highway, like you are heading for your morning commute.

Let me preface this by saying that I don't know what ohio's laws are concerning disclosures and general house purchase contracts. That being said, if I were the home buyer, I would look at the purchase agreement for the house and the disclosures very carefully to see if these issues were disclosed in a sneaky way. most states require you to disclose wood destroying insects and toxic mold, so if it's in there then it's kind of their fault for not reading the disclosures. If they don't see it anywhere, then take the documents to a real estate lawyer who practices litigation. I don't see the seller going....oops my bad, but if they said the house is habitable, and the house really isn't habitable at all then there is an implied warranty of habitability (in other words, you can't lie about the house being safe to live in if it isn't). A real estate lawyer who practices real estate litigation can tell them if they have a course of action against the seller. but it is all going to depend on what's in the sale documents.

the car looks amazing, can't wait to see it in person at cars and coffee.

Are you going to write some more homoerotic fan fiction about it?

I did not need that glimpse into your spank bank.

have you looked at the cost of double din touch screens lately? been half way considering one for the beemer and they are sub $100 with GPS nav, backup camera and everything. https://www.walmart.com/ip/7-Inch-Car-Stereo-Double-Din-MP5-Player-Bluetooth-HD-Touch-Screen-Car-Stereo-Radio-With-Reverse-Camera-And-Mirror-Link-Function/809108558?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=128412&adid=22222222227247206194&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=290607365188&wl4=pla-494160770144&wl5=9021706&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=125207006&wl11=online&wl12=809108558&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrta7ybPc4AIVgRlpCh1Zug4dEAQYAiABEgKSR_D_BwE you know what might be a fun project for this land yacht Clay? ditching the side view mirrors and wiring up side view cameras with the screens inside the car. Would clean up the lines of the car to not have to pretend we don't see those giant chrome side view mirrors.

Hellcat all the things!!!!! but it is about time a prowler got a decent power plant in general. Clay, if you really want to ruin your day - google prowler custom grilles and custom headlights.

they are on Facebook making videos of how to assemble an Ikea couch. :thumbup::gabe:

It's a gift. but then again, I wasn't the one who dropped the big steamy political turd in the punch bowl, I'm just the guy complaining about the taste of the punch.

I thought it was a requirement of jokes to be funny? what am I assuming? you made the same "joke" everyone else who isn't really saavy on the issue makes. I just call it like I see it. But, whether you intended it or not (and likely you didn't) you do bring up a good point about the drivers of tech in the auto industry. Right now Safety and emissions are the biggest hurdles the manual transmission will face. Subaru's new safety system Eyesight isn't compatible with it's manual trans offerings and if it continues to press forward it may drop the manual all together: https://www.motortrend.com/news/could-subaru-discontinue-manual-transmissions-in-the-name-of-safety/ Also, for decades the manual transmission was the ecological leader in this field because it had better fuel mileage, was less expensive to own and maintain, required fewer fluid changes, and generally less maintenance. However, with modern DSG transmissions and tech and an improvement in the quality of manufacturing, the manual is losing ground on fuel economy and reliability. Sure there is still the weight penalty, and the added cost, but those aren't environmental issues, and can be mitigated by other changes elsewhere in the car. Also hybrid tech seems to favor the automatic, the only manual hybrid in recent memory being the CRZ from honda. https://slate.com/technology/2007/10/are-manual-transmissions-really-that-much-better-for-the-environment.html

a) take it to the politics thread b) you know how I know you haven't read the GND and are just making stuff up and falling for the GOP propaganda? this----> "and we'll be walking everywhere" there is a lot to critizie the GND about - that it is ambitious, that it makes too many demands on lawmakers who rely on compromise, that it has no clear funding, but talking like it is going to ban cows or the ICE isn't part of that conversation unless you are trying to prove how little you know about it.

That's kind of they way things are going now. If you look on youtube, a lot of the regular car tech shows have episodes for manual swaps for cars that were not offered in a manual. Off the top of my head... Tavarsh is putting a manual trans in a Mercedes SL55, Cleetus McFarland did a manual swap (really a whole GT500 drivetrain swap) on a crown victoria, ShopLifeVlogs had a tutorial on how to convert BMW SMG transmissions to full manual transmissions, et al. you can buy whole conversion kits for lots of 60's to 90's cars from companies like american powertrain, modern driveline, Keisler, etc.... That covers a lot of the RWD market, but to be honest - a lot of FWD and AWD manual cars are going to go away and never return. Audi doesn't offer the manual trans in the states anymore, and once they stop offering them in europe there aren't going to be any swap parts to make it happen. Personally I want to do an AWD manual swap on the wife's A3, and I am just waiting for the Golf R parts needed to get a little cheaper, but I might not still have the car by the time they do.