Tom McPharland, a contributor to Jalopnik. He also owns Automatchconsulting.com. It is a service he essentially invented after doing it as a hobby.
He haggles for exactly what you want so you don’t have to. Read more

Tom helped me find a jeep dealer that's getting me 3500 below msrp on a custom built Rubicon. Deals are out there! Happy to have hired his team to find one for me.  Read more

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I know understand why the quality of Tom’s prose is better than most here. Which makes me wonder: what is Rob’s background? The two I never miss reading. Read more

Yo, dawg! I heard you like boats! So I made a boat to carry your boats! Read more

Point of comparison for a car that was considered thirsty 18 years ago. It’s honestly an embarrassment that Subaru can’t get this together. 

As someone who worked at a FL DMV, this is bad and I didn’t work as a clerk, but in IT. There is a reason dealers are required to do this as parts as transactions and within time periods. Bigger dealers do title transfers and such if they have the personal and proper equipment. Small dealers bring the deals to the DMV … Read more

So apparently the secret to making a good episode of a television show is to make it an episode of a different television show. Read more

corner used car lots could sell cars and also never provide titles. Read more

What’s the argument for this bill? Is this just a naked attempt by car dealers to have less liability, or is there actually some justification they’re spinning for it? Read more

The Turnpike is boring compared to the Garden State Parkway. The Parkway starts at a traffic light, goes through the Pine Barrens, actually goes to the Shore, then ends up as an urban highway up north.
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It’s nice that you bring light to this Tom. Several years ago I was given the opportunity to attend a ‘free’ self-defense course. This was mainly because I am an ‘average build’ guy that could help out as the assailant. Basically, they thought they could teach me some things at no cost, provided I could help them by… Read more

Tom You Are Right. Read more

After having my friend who is a former marine in the Swedish army and also at the time was a sparring partner with Alexander “the mauler” Gustafsson show me a realistic scenario for a knife fight, I for real realised that a knife fight will never not involve me getting cut atleast once and any scenario that isnt going… Read more

“To have real effectiveness a technique must be able to be executed on a resisting opponent.” + repetition and more repetition.  Read more

Yeah, that’s totally fair. I definitely wouldn’t want to trust a youtube vid technique either. Some of them are pretty far-fetched, to say the least. The thing is that he’s not trying to be some dojo leader or something. I dunno, I’m not gonna spend all day trying to defend him or anything. I did happen to find this…

It’s important to not have a victim mentality when it comes to dangerous scenarios like this, but without proper training (either fixed or under duress), you’re going to get yourself killed. Read more

So, I do a martial arts that heavily mixes striking, blade tactics & gun disarms. It was really hard keeping my eyes from rolling out of their sockets...

One of the important things with martial arts or self defense training is repetition. Muscle memory allows you to react quicker and with consistency (if you were properly trained.) Watching something online without practicing numerous times in real life is a waste. Read more