Yeah thought about that too.  That is a lot of shipping for a paint job.

“a pizza delivery driver punted it into a hedge”

Unfortunately, air doesn’t work that way. They are continually diluting the flatus, but not directly displacing it.

So that would be the Butt Aroma Refresh Time?

The manual on the 1996 Corvette was a $0 option. You could get a manual for the base price, ie: stripper.

6MT + LSD + better brakes are kind of the key features anyway. Of course I’d prefer it with the V6 instead of the 2.0 4. But at this point, if you want to drive a manual (on a new car), some trade offs will be made.

I’m afraid the BART discussion and your NASA documentation are taking about different things. NASA here is looking at flatus, the gaseous part of farts, where for us, the key component is that ever-so-faint whiff of hydrogen sulfide. Many of those gases aren’t going to behave like the dominant gases in the atmosphere.…

I’m not selling anything. A car with options over the base car, that costs more, isn’t a stripper model just because it’s not heavily optioned.

It’s like how you go to your favorite restaurant and always order the same thing - not because they don’t have other great dishes, but because the risk of something not being as good as your favorite thing is a risk many don’t want to take.

My grandparents would've broken this study in one try. Their trick was to shut all windows and keep the door closed and leave it as a surprise for the poor bastard who goes in next.

It can’t be fully optioned like the other trims, but it is basically a full sport package and isn’t in any way equivalent to the stripper model.

That's what sounds like a helluva buy!  Now those G70s are nice, I'd prefer the 365 HP one, but a 6-spd manual might offset the fewer ponies.

It always makes me a little sad when automakers show their once-great models in an ad that’s eventually going to lead to their current, bland, undesirable ones.

Regrettably, I suspect that part of the reason for writing in this polarizing fashion is to get people riled up so that they will post more comments and drive more traffic to Jalopnik.

If this quote doesn’t tell people that gizmodo, nee gawker, has imploded up its own asshole into a singularity of troll-based, clickbait, malevolent stupidity, I’m not sure what will.

No, that was funny. Lighten up Francis.

Thank you for saying this. I’ll add to this sentiment in a way Erik may understand:

A principle I’ve tried in recent years is to expand on for myself is the concept of “if you don’t believe in X for those you disagree with, then you don’t believe in X.” One of the unfortunate sides of this is realizing what horrible flaming hypocrites many people are.

That’s easy. Jalopnik and Readers never drove, sat or reviewed one. Seriously. That haven’t reviewed half the cars they talk smack the most about. To me that’s more telling on what’s being touted. Subjective or Objective. Clearly the subjective opinion of the name is driving their narrative. Objectively what’s said…

Most folks aren’t car enthusiasts, they just go out and buy whatever size crossover they think they want for the lowest price they can find. If they’re buying new, it’s sure to be a nicer ride than whatever they were driving before. That’s an oversimplification of course, but not by that much really.