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For most of car history, one assumption sat underneath everything. There would be a driver. Not just in the vague philosophical sense. Physically. Literally. A person in a seat, looking forward
There is a reason car ads suddenly get louder around the Fourth of July. Summer is usually one of those weird in-between stretches for car sales. Spring tax-refund buyers have already made
A lot of used-car shopping happens in a weird little fog. You are scrolling listings, comparing photos, trying to decide whether two cars that look basically identical are actually identical, a
Every year, car buyers get asked to imagine themselves as bold, expressive people. People who care about design. People who say things like, “No, I don’t want the boring one.”
Used cars are expensive enough now that people are starting to look in places they used to ignore completely. That is how government surplus auctions end up back in the conversation. On pap
BMW and reliability have had a weird relationship for a long time. There was a stretch where people talked about older BMWs like they were carved out of granite. The straight-sixes had a reputa
There are certain car problems people take seriously the second they hear about them. Brakes. Tires. Battery. Engine. Anything expensive gets respect immediately. Even people who ignore mainten