Contrary to my avatar, I am not remotely a GM fanboy (just the big handsome boys from the early 2000's)...

Because Erik (and 90% of the rest of the writers here) have no idea how the auto industry works. 

GM’s choice is no great surprise given that GM exists solely for its shareholders, but, still, whenever this comes up, I think about GM in 2011, when it was perfectly happy to throw its engineering might behind doing the harder thing.

Yep the 3.slow offered 4cyl performance with V6 gas millage. But was reliable if you just did even basic upkeep.

The first slideshow I’ve opened and I read “Alfa Romero”

My 97 Taurus gave great service from new. I sold it to my dad at 60,000 miles and he drove it to 130,000, then it went to my sister until she finally got rid of it after 180,000 miles. No major mechanical problems along the way, but the interior got really ratty. Most of that was my sister’s fault however. 

Alfa Romero? This is a car site? Proofread please.

Dawg, it’s 11:51am PST. I didn’t even see the original post. Can we at least wait until 5pm EST or something to post these?

Daily drive the Wraith shooting brake:

Back, oh I dunno, 11-12 years or so, right before the Veyron was actually launching

I feel like the designers must have had a lot of meetings over what to do with the valve stem.

“...like a Jack Russel terrier on a mustard-lubricated bratwurst ejected from a bun”

torch, are you an atari age guy? someone is working on a new atari 2600 version of turbo.  thought that was topical vis a vis obsolete systems and graphical limitations.

Here are your biggest article writing errors:

To be fair, your brother did know how to drain the radiator.

In 2008 they ran an enduro race at Kentucky speedway with too many cars and giant wickerbills to slow them down what they could. It doesnt need to be that track but id love to see that number of cars on track again

That’s what you gotta do to get the buffalo wings.

These days you can buy an off the shelf pellet gun that will kill a buffalo with a single shot

Go back to the part about a muzzle flash from a BB gun please?

I am firmly on the camp of hating cyclists for being assholes on the road while still going well out of my way to get around them slowly and safely because I can’t even imagine what hurting someone in an accident would feel like, let alone KILLING them.