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Ryan Felton
ryanfelton13
Senior Reporter, Jalopnik/Special Projects Desk

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I’m always amazed by the type of person who just can’t wait to get the the comment section of these types of articles so they can detail just how stupid the victim is, hand-wave the predatory nature of the lender/bank/dealership and gush about how they would never have fallen for a scheme like that. I can never tell Read more

Just like when my phone updates and some dumb problem emerges, such as the volume stops working, except in this case, you’ll probably die. Read more

There was a time when the company would build a library and improve the community just to get access to workers. Now we workers have to buy our jobs with higher local taxes on our wages to give back to the corporations - a self inflicted pay cut that lasts forever. Read more

Then Ford should be picked apart as being the bad guy in this.  Forcing cities to give HUGE tax breaks for some hope of maybe more tax revenue is a grift and elected officials should stop falling for it.  In fact it should be made illegal.   Read more

The thing I find hilarious is that nowhere more than the U.S. do cars dominate discussions of the “future of mobility”. Know why? It’s because everywhere else already has it figured out. Read more

An explorer is deep in the jungle, in a corner of the earth never before seen by Western man. Suddenly, he hears drums in the distance. He turns to his faithful native guide and asks what the drums mean. Read more

Thanks to acura i’m listening to motörhead all morning
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One kind of expects this kind of expose at some point or another, but it never fails to knock the breath out of me. These abortions of justice are infuriating, and we cannot thrive as a society until this kind of endemic biases are completely done away with. Read more

He’s got a point- I don’t see how a car hitting him in the head could make things much worse, either. Read more

Don’t forget: Santander Consumer also paid a large fine for repo’ing service members vehicles while they were under SCRA protections.

I used to work in their IT department, how the company hasn’t completely imploded is beyond me.

I hope Chrysler buys up the Chrysler Capital arm and the rest of the business is sold for Read more

Yes there is a burden of personal education in all this, but as a society we shouldn’t allow predatory practices against the vulnerable of our society with the excuse ‘lol should’ve known better, poors’ Read more

Some consumers have simply never learned how credit works Read more