Why the Republicans shouldn't use new media

He was great in this under-appreciated slice of life movie, too...

 

Some Whitelandians can smilingly sell you a split level one minute, the next minute they want to run you over in their Escalade.

 

He looks like an insufferable douche.

 

Well that's true of every ethnic group, only most of 'em drive smaller cars. So when you get hit you don't die quite as spectacularly.

 

Why do you think Whitelandian's prefer giant SUVs & Texas Limos? 99.9% ain't hauling hay bales any longer. MAGA!

 

To be honest, I have no idea why. I drove an SUV once. The ride is crap, they are a chore to drive. The gas mileage is bad. They are expensive. If you need to haul around a bunch of people, minivans do the job better. SUVs are bloated pieces of shit, with their only redeeming value being if you need to drive without a road. Which few suburban drivers ever need to do.

 

It depends. Newer models are better drives, have a lot of safety devices and come in different sizes.

Minivans are also expensive ($30k-40k) and probably just as bad MPG-wise. But for the most part, you use all the extras only once in a while, meaning that in most days both are a one person car to drive to and from work.

http://www.carsdirect.com/compare/compare-tool/toyota/highlander/toyota/sienna

 

But isn't that true for mostly any car over certain tresshold (Lets say 25-30k)? I mean, on my relatively short drive here I cross path with Porsches, BMWs. Masserattis, etc, etc... For all I can tell their drivers looks as stressed and uncomfortable as the ones in Hondas, Mazdas, Chevys... Unless your car can magically get around traffic jams, or at least give you a very good massage, what is so great about dropping tens of thousands of dollars more for the same offerings?



Disclaimer: Our family is on the verge of reaching certain financial threshold, so you might see my wife ignoring my financial advise very soon.

 

You probably know this but the make of car you own fulfills social and personal needs unrelated to driving.

 

I wouldn't put money on that. When we had the gas spike right before the housing bubble went boom, that was the tipping point when people who owned Excursions / Escalades / H2's could no longer afford to put gas in their cars and make the payments, so those vehicles started hitting the used lots and were all over new lots as trade ins. After a few months of sitting on lots, dealers couldn't get rid of them and they would make ridiculous deals to just get them off the lot. So, you had a lot of low/mod income people that could suddenly afford these rigs, then we hit the oil glut and the rest is history.

 

When I lived on Capitol Hill several years ago, one of the neighbors - Mr. Brown - had a beautiful hi-end Mercedes sedan. He was retired from the GPO as I recall, and as far as I could tell, he never, ever drove the car. He kept it spotless and well shined, and sat in it for hours every day, listening to the radio, reading a book, napping, whatever.
The one thing I was told by another neighbor is that he had a mindset that if he could ever afford a Mercedes, he would be able to say he "made it." Cars are weird.
I've owned 5 cars in my life. Drove all of them for at least 10 years, and all except the ones I own now had over 200K on the odometer (and one of my current rides is pushing 170K and it's 14 years old). I hate car payments, LOL.

 

About to flip 200K on the GMC Sierra - overdue for an oil change, that's about it

 

The only safe vee-hickle in South Florida:

 

I'm 1,200' above sea level. I don't give a shit about Seattle, NYC, Florida and the CAL coast drowning.

 

How about a Honda CB500F? That's how I got to work.

 

From the current fleet of electric cars, We could probably buy/lease a Nissan Leaf or maybe a Ford Fusion.... Teslas S and X are at least double that price. If we reserved the Model 3, we would get the car in about 2 years... Lets see if I can fin $1000 under my mattress...

You know, I could probably put the money down for a Tesla next year after we get my wife's new car and sell her current one, I really don't mind holding onto my current car for 3 or 5 more years. In the meanwhile I promise that I'll try to steer her towards a hybrid version of whatever car she wants.

 

Think about all of us Climate Refugees, running up your hill..

 

So this movie was prophecy.

 

Good thing that Colorado has the high ground...