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Tom McParland
tommcparland
Tom is a contributing writer for Jalopnik and runs AutomatchConsulting.com. He saves people money and takes the hassle out of buying or leasing a car. (Facebook.com/AutomatchConsulting)

That really looks awful. Like something found in a recent Jalop slideshow... Read more

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One other tip, don’t have negative equity rolled into a loan. The fastest way to a monthly car payment that makes people laugh at you is to have a trade in you still owe money on. Either pay off the car or sell it and pay it off before financing another car.  Read more

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This One Trick Will Save You From Overpaying on a Car Loan” Read more

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This. I was always the shy kid growing up and generally not the social butterfly, but if I’m going to be around these people at least semi-often, I want to know who the hell they are - especially if my child is hanging out with theirs.

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So she did it by having a lot of money and charging her tenant an ass load for rent. Be rich and become a landlord, how truly uplifting. Fucking tiktok and influencers. Read more

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She also shared that by coming to the closing table with $47,000"

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Yeah I mean...for me Killian was more memorable than Mystique or Colin Farrell as Bullseye.  Hell I’d forgotten he had played him.  I think the guy who played Bullseye in the Daredevil tv show as much better.  Farrell looks fucking ridiculous.
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People arent leasing right now because the manufacturers have completely stopped subventing lease rates and residuals.

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So this is basically Corvette’s version of a 911 Turbo (S). Phenomenal street car, faster in a straight line, but not track oriented. Read more

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Just to let you know.... a few weeks ago I purchased a 2022 Chrysler 300 with all options for $9,000 below sticker... Of course, the dealer wanted to charge me for a bunch of “dealer-add ons” (paint protection, wheel locks, recovery, window tint and maybe more) for about $2,900 but I agreed to $500 for all the Read more

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the OG Obi-Wan v Vader from EP IV is probably the most “realistic” of all the scenes as it doesn’t look like a pre-programed set. Read more

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If he had to use a saber, I would have been interested to see Yoda do some meditative battle where he sits in a trance-like state and controls the saber. Read more

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we really need to include both the Vader scene at the end of Rogue One that for the first time really shows what Vader can do. Read more

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You’re really missing something if you haven’t seen the lightsaber fights in Clone Wars (especially Sidious vs Maul and Savage Opress) and Rebels (especially Obi-Wan vs Maul, and Ahsoha vs Vader).

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Some I know may or may not have had to retrofit touchscreen functionality to a brand-new BMW X5 they ordered in November of last year. Read more

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