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Features eric - February 21, 2017

The new batch of stickers has arrived; I'm gonna do my best to get a mailing out before the end of the week. Thanks to everyone for being patient! Also - I wanted...

The Orange Balloon Deflates

Features eric - April 12, 2017

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Trump could not replace - much less repeal - Obamacare. So, instead, he did what Republicans do best: Bomb foreigners, remotely. Even the Chimp-esque, Oceania tis' for thee verbiage is back. Remember...

2013 Volvo S60

Features eric - November 14, 2012

Safety's not the sell it once was. Because everyone's selling it. Multiple air bags, ABS, traction control - and much more. It's common - and it's a given. Almost everyone has...

Never Call the Cops

Features eric - November 25, 2016

Earlier this month, Gabriel Parker of Casa Grande, AZ was shot by three officers from the Casa Grande Police Department after another family member called to report that he was threatening...

Latest Reader Question (October 26, 2017)

Features eric - October 26, 2017

Here's the latest reader Question, along with my reply! Austin asks: Often on here, you talk about real world driving producing worse gas mileage in vehicles (that aren't VW diesels) than their...

Today’s Thoughts . . . Aug. 27, 2013

Features eric - August 26, 2013

I wanted to give all of you an update on The Situation: EPautos is not Deay-ud! In the roughly ten days since we threw Goo-guhl in the woods - removed all their ads...

Imagine

Features - October 27, 2012

Imagine there's no heaven. No aliens and oracles in the sky. No hell or monsters below us. No grave markers when you die. Imagine all the people, living for tonight and today. Imagine all...

Exotic Performance, Economy Car Price

Features eric - April 5, 2017

Lots of reasons to love motorcycles, but the economics always make me smile. For less than the cost of the least expensive new car you could go faster than you could in...

“Hero” Steals Hot Dog Vendor’s Money

Features eric - September 12, 2017

Watch this armed government worker - in his gay shorts and wearing his gay helmet for saaaaaaaaafety - steal money from a guy earning an honest living selling hot dogs curbside: "This...

Mild-Mannered Park Pork

Features eric - June 2, 2013

This one at least seems a little apologetic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43KGxjX4NVY

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The Handler: Speed Queens are excellent machines. I plan on buying a set as soon as the Maytag craps out.
Shotgun Chuck: My mother had an XTerra with the exact same problem. Made a moaning noise under heavy load, shifted weird sometimes, but...
Jarhead Mike-Foxtrot: The US Plantation. The Constitution is a Bankruptcy Document, that’s why it was held in secret making the...
no one of consequence: As Merle Haggard says: “somewhere in the middle of Montana” https://www.youtube.com/wat...
chiph: Chief Acevado is a liberal and anti-gun, but he’s honest. He’ll give those officers the boot.
Vonu: The only thing I have there is a friend’s address to make me legal so that DHS doesn’t consider me a terrorist. I...
chiph: The only reason to buy new is if you want the improved safety. And I’m not talking about the new driver distractions like...
X: Eric, here’s the latest outrage from our “heroes”: Cops Lie to Get Search Warrant, Storm House, Kill Two Residents...
Douglas L Self: “We know MOBSTERS do it (I.e., scope out a jury to identify them and target for intimidation or retaliation), why...
The Handler: Uncle and GM bean counters are to blame for the demise of the “company within a company” model.
dread pirate anonymous: Cody? Well, heck – you’re almost a neighbor! That’s only a couple or three hundred miles from...
Eightsouthman: Pulling my boat down the road at 90mph with 4.10 gears didn’t get nearly that but I could have slowed down and got...
Vonu: Or, given the mass of them after the Great Correction begins, to the crushers, as appropriate.
Eightsouthman: Ticky, the people doing this won’t be doing much laughing or cheering. I’ve always thought getting a couple of...
Vonu: I live about a fifteen minute drive from Heart Mountain.
richb: Yes, if you look at Buick’s Chinese website, you can see the much bigger lineup that market has.
Eightsouthman: Me, me, me, I can answer that. The first I saw were WWll camps in Germany. Tens of thousands of prisoners were kept in...
richb: The Cascada was built in Poland with lots of Opel parts. Guessing that plant was probably part of the Opel sale. You think they...
Eightsouthman: Thanks much, thanks much, thanks much, fuck you WordPress.
Tuanorea: Anarchyst, You forgot to mention they are willing to kill to achieve the goal.
Vonu: Banks don’t make money on loans they do not make. Real estate and stock brokers only make commissions on things they sell....
Vonu: Those of us who pay for things when we buy them do not have to complain about payments we do not have. Those of us who can drive...
Vonu: Living in a van is so much cheaper and maintainable.
Tionico: Because we are not merel “Maintaining” the same standard of living. Remember a few things back then.. fuel was 19...
Vonu: Silicon is even less prevalent than ferrous metal in late model cars.
The Bobster: More likely a pile of useless electronic debris.
The Bobster: Correction: candidates who will make…
The Bobster: Hell, the whole dash assembly is outsourced to China nowadays.
The Bobster: And then the Millennial idiots will turn around and support candidates who will be their pathetic existences worse.
The Bobster: “This house of cards always has a tipping point where there are more deadbeats than payin customers then the financial...
Vonu: They won’t have to pass inspection as long as they will fit into the crusher where increasing numbers of trade ins are going,...
Vonu: The number of RVs for sale by owner are sharply up in snowbird land.
Vonu: How inhabitable does a internment camp need to be?
Vonu: You simply have to wait until more of them have “For Sale” signs in their windows including “OBO.”
Vonu: Because the increase in inflation is outpacing the government’s willingness to respond with the appropriate adjustments in...
Mike in Boston: The family of this poor guy should track that criminal AGW down and give him a tazing of 240v at high current till his...
Bostwick9: Those were 225s, then called Dauntless by Kaiser/Jeep. Buick V6 started out as 198 in 62. Enlarged to 225 for 64-67 use in...
Zathras: If you go to Speed Queen’s website, they have a “where to buy” link where you can enter your zip code and...
no one to be trifled with: Only reason I maintain and extend my NRA membership is that the Progleftists hate them (therefore me!) so...
James: From an individual cash flow perspective, perhaps it would appear that getting a newer vehicle with a fixed monthly payment,...
Zane: Unless the difference between the engines is Aftermarket support vs none, I always opt for the bigger engine Remember Jack Baruth...
not left handed: Good grief! We only pay about half that annually for liability on FOUR vehicles in Montana. I’m sure glad that...
anonymous in Greenland: Jeep used to put that v6 in the CJs, right?
dread pirate anonymous: Depreciation is a means in business accounting to amortize the purchase cost of an asset over its useful life....
Sarah in TEX: Liberty, I would love to find a ranger, they are SO DARNED expensive for a good one. Cheaper to buy the full size , which I...
Eightsouthman: Yep, a friend had a red and white 73 Riviera with that ducktail rear. It was a beautiful car but she excelled in trashing...
Bryce: The Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac, or BOP, divisions of GM were their real money makers, more so than the mass-market Chevys or luxury...
Eightsouthman: My father felt he had to show a meager existence so he turned down a 64 Riviera demonstrator that cost $200 more than the...
BrentP: Buick offerings in China are much greater and not the same as the US last I heard.
BrentP: The Chinese. Buick will probably continue in China. Something to do with name and brand recognition going way back.
Cold Frog: If it makes you feel better, to insure my $1200 1995 S10, $985. That is zero coverage in the lowest rate region in BC. The...
eric: Amen, Imbroglio – My biggest expense with regard to my 2002 Frontier is insurance; then property tax. Together, it amounts to...
eric: Excellent advice, Sarah – and thanks for the kind words!
sarah in TEX: If he can’t wrench, this person should find a person who is a shade tree mechanic, who can turn a wrench. I have a...
Jason Flinders: I remember well when there was a vast difference between the various GM brands. They really operated as separate,...
MarkyMark: Anarchyst, What especially galls me are the guys who loudly and proudly proclaim that they’re LEGAL gun owners, as if...
MarkyMark: All I can say is: what an a-hole!
brazos_bend: Hell you see more new Mitsubishis on the road than Buicks. Who the hell buys a new buick these days to have a new badge on...
brazos_bend: VQ40 engines since 2005 DO have issues, but can easily be fixed and kept for 300k miles if you can turn a wrench. Should...
MarkyMark: Eric, Those Buick V6s (the 231) were GREAT engines. They were reliable and held up. They were so good that guys building their...
Argent47: Rhetorical question. (What is the minimum character length to reply to yourself without an edit button?)
Argent47: Wanted to ask this out loud — if the acquisition of raw resources for most things is getting easier, the transformation...
imbroglio: My mandatory insurance bill = 72% of the Blue Book value of my putt putt. Then add these other fees plus excise tax, and in a...
imbroglio: But this practice does make buying cars cheaper for those of us who tool around in twelve year old Civics and Corollas. On the...
Mooeing: I hope this is good for the used market. The sad part of financing is the resale value of some these cars is so high that its...
ReadyKilowatt: “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust” Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey
SojournerMoon: Supposedly, Buick’s are GM’s best sellers in China, the largest car market in the world, now. That’s what is keeping Buick...
anarchyst: Quite often, firearms owners are their own worst enemies. The duck hunters don’t like the AR-15 “black...
anarchyst: The problem is, we have allowed the anti Second Amendment crowd to define the terms. A firearm is a tool which possess no evil...
eric: Morning, Xathras – Excellent tip in re the Speed Queens; I’m sure many people are happy to have been...
eric: Hi T, Repair costs vis-a-vis depreciation is without question a big problem – one that is getting worse as vehicles become...
JACK: Another very good article by Eric ! The financial conditions in our US market are threads in a larger economic quilt. The extended...
karalan: Looking forward to the rant. This issue can’t be highlighted enough. Although MGTOW and similar movements have tried to...
SixShooter: My daily driver is a F150 with the tried and true 300 L6. Bought it for $3500 used with 117k on the ODO and have put 260,000...
Tionico: There is another driver for loan defaults, and a really sad one. Friend of mine got hmself buried. Boght a near new Nissan...
Tionico: The crazy thing is, back in 1970, one could buy a Volvo 140 series (2, 4, 5 door) with the ONLY engine optioin availble, mthe...
Shotgun Chuck: Also, I’ve heard DI gasoline engines are particulate dirty like a 1970s diesel… so now gasoline cars are...
Shotgun Chuck: That assumes you can even get 93 without going all the way to race gas or (frequently illegal) octane-in-a-bottle; here in...
Shotgun Chuck: They already tried to hose the Mustang once. In the late 1980s they wanted to rebadge a Mazda MX-6 (FWD, NA or turbo I4)...
Libertarian: The US is a police state now. Americans should be out in the streets with pitchforks and torches, but instead they would...
Eightsouthman: Zathras, where do you find them? I like old school….even crotches with hair!
Zathras: If you want a reliable, old fashioned washer and dryer, buy a Speed Queen. You might recognize the name, they make most of the...
lost in the fire swamp: The tape is the mounting bracket, but I like the way you think.
Shotgun Chuck: I recently tried to work for “a major department store”, made it through 3 days of training before I had to...
ReadyKilowatt: only if you use a 3D printer to make a mounting bracket.
ancap51: I’m in extreme danger of being tortured on the side of the road by one of these bastards any time I get pulled over. I...
Tuanorea: Unusual Size, That is literally less than 3 pennies a day. Think about the folks that put a $1600 high efficiency w/d on a...
Zane: So how do we counter these heartless and brainless brutes who enjoy torturing poor civvies when given an opportunity? More I read...
anonymous of unusual size: I bought this w/d set from a guy down the road who married a lady from out of state who had a newer w/d set...
Eightsouthman: Nun, it’s still used in Texas and I loved the replaced sections of the interstate and other roads where it is new....
Nunzio: I wouldn’t have one of these, just because they remind me of pig-mobiles. I don’t even want to drive what those...
X: I generally oppose lynching, but in some cases — Brailsford, for instance, and this creep, too — I wouldn’t shed a...
Eightsouthman: RK, they really want to stick it up our ass by doing such. I always wondered….and verily knew, that a supposedly...
Rush2Liberty: I can’t see myself ever buying a new car again. I lived in Europe the past 2 years, and while I was there, bought a...
Travis Beck: It used to be said that “Those who can, do. And those who can’t, teach.” Now we have an addition:...
Libertarian: Some Americans may have thought that tyranny would never come to the US because the rich, celebrities, media, politicians,...
Tuanorea: Mostly, Bad dogs on the old Whirlpools. One of the biggest reasons people get rid of them. If you see one on the side of the...
Tuanorea: As soon as a payment was missed.
Tuanorea: Eric (and Nasir), Self repo cars. Remember Mel Farr the Super Star? He would have the LoJack shut the thing down as soon as a...
Tuanorea: Chips, Plastic turns into Fe3+?

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