Toyota just accidentally being good weapon platforms is a good ongoing meme

Just to give context for those who don’t know. Lmao.

a fucking WHAT

Hidrogen: Really Fucking Flammable™️

Oh yeah, she deserved that Oscar bad

He wants to fuck her so bad it makes him look stupid

That's his fiancee.

well it's working on me

@sistercara

Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006) The Umbrella Academy (2019 ─ ) Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) The Simpsons (1989 ─ )

Twilight (2008)

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

Also “you can hardly tell” bitch it’s on a flatbed tow truck. IT’S INOPERABLE.

Sure, the door is only moderately dented and the wheel well is only kinda shredded, but IT CAN’T BE DRIVEN. Indestructible my ass.

I'VE BEEN SAYING

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her: You must be Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress and Tumblr in Israel if you think we’re fucking!

me:

@sybilvimes

i don’t WANT to own and drive a vehicle‼️‼️‼️ *throws things across the room with my telekinesis*

okay but here's a Very Important Question: is the Bentley Crowley's first car?

given how attached he is to it, you'd certainly think so, but I'm actually skeptical of that, because practical automobiles for sale to the public first became A Thing in the late 1880s/early 1890s, and the Bentley is a late 1920s model. that means we've got almost four decades between the popularization of the internal combustion engine and the production of Crowley's Bentley.

so even if we assume Crowley didn't wake up from his depression nap until 1900 or so, that still leaves a gap of almost 30 years and I have a hard time picturing Anthony "pen so slick it looked like it could break the sound barrier, cutting edge computer he has no idea how to use but it's cool and modern so he's gotta have it" Crowley letting three whole decades go without jumping on the whole horseless carriage bandwagon. he's been wanting to get away from having to deal with animal-based transportation for thousands of years, you can't tell me he wouldn't have jumped on that at absolute top speed as soon as he became aware of the option.

which in turn raises the question: what was he driving before he got his hands on the Bentley?

like I legitimately cannot stop thinking about Crowley bopping around the countryside in a Peugeot Bébé in the nineteen-aughts:

just picture it. picture it. you know you want to.

You realize that Peugeot has a top speed of like 20 miles an hour, right? Can you imagine Crowley just having an Undying Need for Speed and miracling the damn thing to zip around at about 60 miles an hour while everyone else is terrified that young gent with the flaming red hair is gonna have his eyeballs fly out of his sockets?

YES EXACTLY

Bahahahaha yesss XD

I now know firsthand that going to a car dealership is…an experience.

I went going exactly what car I wanted and I imagine that if you don’t know that much it’ll be easier for a dealership to screw you over when you get there by feeding you misinformation about a car, manipulating you into buying a more expensive model, and etc.

I had already done all my research online so I knew what I wanted. Down to the color. (Green is my favorite color!)

So boyfriend and I went (I followed Tumblr’s advice about bringing a man lol). And I test drove the car and loved it just like I knew I would. And THEN the real dealership experience began.

The bottomline is that I knew my credit score and so I knew what kind of interest rate (APR) I should expect. I also knew the manufacturer price of the car (MSRP) and I knew how much they were selling for on average in my area ($3k less than MSRP).

So I knew what I was going to pay and I had already decided on that in my head.

So dealer #1 (a white guy–this is relevant to mention lol) brings back the first set of numbers. He cushions it with making small talk and flattering me on starting my PhD in August. He also chats up boyfriend.

The numbers were bad. I could tell looking at it. Although they didn’t say the APR, I knew that my monthly rate shouldn’t be that high based on the number of months I’d be paying it. Also they only gave me $2k off MSRP.

I noted that the sticker price was too high because I can go to another dealer and get it cheaper and they knocked off another $1k.

And then I asked him what the APR was. He was very evasive and kept telling me to look at the monthly payments because that’s what “really matters.” No, what really matters is what I’m paying for the car overall which is the sticker price + state fees (unavoidable) + interest rate.

Dealer #1 finally told me the APR and it was 3x the rate I knew I was eligible for. I told him that’s not gonna work. He turned aggressive and said that I’m a first time buyer and I can’t expect better and that I’m being unrealistic to expect a lower rate and etc etc.

So I said that my bank quoted me a rate half that much and I’ll just go through them and buy later (at a different dealer). Because I want the car but there’s 2 other places I can go to get it in my area.

Then all of a sudden dealer #1 could get me a better APR. His next offer was 2x what I wanted to pay. I said nah that good enough.

Then they brought out dealer #2, who was a Black guy. He didn’t sit down and instantly start talking about the price. He said a bunch of small talk and said some stuff about being Black lol. Tryna be chummy chummy and connect with us on a racial level.

Then he tried to push the same numbers as dealer #1. I said I know I’m young and I don’t have a math background but you’re charging me way too much for this car and I’m not going to buy it at that price. Period. I said: get the APR down and I’ll buy the car. He kept telling me it wasn’t possible and I said okay…I won’t buy it.

But then he was like wait…lemme run the numbers. And ta da! He came back with the right APR. Also zero down. And payments lower than my target.

This whole process took 5 hours.

Moral of the story:

- know as much as you can before going to a dealership so you can focus on the numbers - know your credit score so you know what your APR should be - get approved through an independent bank for a loan so you have leverage to negotiate with a better rate from the dealer - don’t focus on monthly payments. Times that by the amount of months so you know what you’re REALLY paying - threaten to walk because stuff magically happens at dealerships when you do lol

YES. and I will also swear by The Toast’s How to Buy a Car Without Interacting With a Human

Important!!!

SICKO MODE 👹

it’s so nice to see people join together and work towards a common goal

WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY

100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

The stables have turned

oH MY GOD

I’m at a loss for words… via Shitty_Car_Mods

FACE DOWN ASS UP THAT’S THE WAY I LIKE 2 TRUCK

LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

You heard 'em ☝️☝️☝️

Translation: “I am fucking tired of the soviet car industry” *the standard effect of touching a soviet car* *laughs in russian*

I can’t get over the sheer poetry of how the car falls apart - the perfect chain reaction escalating as it travels round.