Finally, Someone Built A Garage That You Can Live In

Do Everything You Can To Buy The World’s Best Live-In Garage 

Okay, so it’s being marketed as a private car museum, but this $10 million piece of real estate in California would make an unbeatable garage space 

If you’re looking for the perfect place to store your cars, tools, pool table and sound system, we think we’ve found exactly what you need. This $10 million ‘private car museum’ has appeared for sale, and we’ve gone all weak at the knees.

This 7000-square-foot climate-controlled space has room for 25 cars, with plenty of space around each for getting around and underneath them. It’s the baby of Steve and Azita Goldman. Steve is a double Masters Championship winner in the Pirelli Porsche racing series.

You get a bedroom, three(!) bathrooms, secured grounds, a seating area and a raised viewing podium from which you admire all your things. To keep stored cars in peak condition the Malibu-based ‘room’ is temperature-, humidity- and dust-controlled.

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Thank You, Mr. Monroney

The Monroney sheet: a window sticker history

The window sticker's story, and why you should be glad we have it 

What's on a Monroney sheet?

Enter the window sticker or, as it's commonly referred to, a new vehicle's Monroney. This handy sheet of paper is affixed to every single new car, truck, and SUV sold in the U.S. On it, you'll find a complete explanation about where the car was built, warranty details, a list of engine specifications, what options have been added, the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of the car, along with the price of individual options. More recently, official EPA-endorsed fuel mileage data and crash test ratings have been added to the Monroney, helping give car buyers more information when comparing vehicles when making a purchase decision.

So even if you've busted your laptop, or your smartphone is blinking red at 1 percent of charge, you still have the trusty Monroney to show you some fixed, comparable numbers so you have some foundation from which to negotiate.

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Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game

So similar yet so different

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Water Does Have Its Uses

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So The Commercials Are Accurate

The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky outnumbers the state’s population by more than two million.

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They Are Gettin' The Last Laugh, All The Way To The Bank

How Subaru Outsmarted A Bad Consumer Reports Review And Took Over America

[H]ead over to Road & Track, where you’ll find a lovely story about Subaru’s rise to glory in the United States. I won’t tell the whole story here, you’ll have to read R&T’s, but it does include a wonderful bit about how the Subaru 360 received an absolutely scorching review from Consumer Reports in 1969 (which you can read here).

In response, Subaru simply just worked around Consumer Reports. From R&T’s story:

So Subaru of America decided to focus on markets where Consumer Reports had less sway—as Automotive News puts it, “small towns where the reputation of the local dealer was more important than awareness of the brand he was selling.” The American importer targeted rural regions far away from the big cities. Places like Vermont, Minnesota, Washington state, New Hampshire and western Pennsylvania—where hardworking people on a budget might be willing to try a relatively-unknown brand offering cheap, frugal transportation.

That, plus some innovative four-wheel drive tech and an oil embargo helped jump start Subaru sales in America. It’s also why it is no coincidence that everyone thinks about Subarus when they think New England and the Pacific Northwest.

(Jalopnik.com)

The Irony

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