For sure NOBODY racing Indy.

Actually you do. If the car has previously been registered in another state.

Pontiac

Where there any “updates” during all that time?

What!!!

Technically you are correct; The 512 BB first came out in the for of the 365 BB in 1973 and the GTO is derived from the 308 GTB that came out in 1976.

Thinking about it, it is probably due to the geography of the US cities vs. European cities.

I recently ordered an Audi S3. The packages and option list is quite short.

It is worth including this comment from the original story. It brings a lot of important points:

I think the one sold here in the US has a normal shift pattern.

Was too disappointed to think quickly. But I am sure he was the "only" bad apple on his precinct.

A few months ago I was in this situation. Had dinner with my wife, and on the way to our car, we saw this guy, so drunk that kept falling off while trying to open the door of his car.

In this near-sighted, next-quarter profit times we live now, we tend to forget that one of the functions of the government is to create or incentivize technologies that otherwise no private company has the will or budget to undertake.

You are ignoring some of the very negative effects of NAFTA on the Mexican economy and population.

What. Are you really suggesting that premium car buyers are swapping their BMW, or MB for trucks? I call it Big BS!!!

I would say GPS.

Remember that time when Kennedy said "we are going to the moon...". I bet he did not know how rockets worked, but he set the goal, and the people with the knowledge made it happen.

When you go to the same dealership where people buy/service F-150's and Fiestas, it does not feel as exclusive and a dealership where the buy/service Ferrari and Maserati.

That looks nuts.

Great article Chris, I am glad that somebody from the inside acknowledges that this is a common issue. As you mentioned, another big issue is pandering to the advertisers. By nature the business model car magazines is a conflict of interests. And I would like to hear more confessions about that too.