The thing automotive journalists don’t understand... or can’t convey, is why they think the Ridgeline is so much better than the competition. It’s not cheaper, it’s not more fuel efficient, it’s not safer, it can’t tow more, the bed isn’t bigger, it’s not easier to park, it doesn’t come with more standard features...

“It looks like Ford has finally decided to make a good truck?”

Winds of Winter is just around the corner

What a strange time to be alive when Ford will sell you a small truck, while Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and VW combined having nothing comparable in the US market.

Y’all ain’t never gettin’ that book.

It’s a meme at this point, and Martin knows it. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to hear that he got 1/4th of the way into it and said “waitaminute, I’m rich, fuck this...why should I spend so much time and energy on a book a bunch of whiny so-called “fans” are…

That is exactly what it will be. 

3.6L V6

Two door trucks are a dying breed, relegated only to small percentage of commercial sales. I too, would prefer a two-door, but there’s no way they’re producing anything but four-door short beds.

TLDR: We are still living with what is basically a protectionist knee-jerk reaction from over half a century ago.

It’s not a bullshit fee just because they might make money on it - It’s a bullshit fee, because it’s a fixed part of the cost of every car, so it could easily be factored into the MSRP.

Does splitting off “fees” out of the sale price mean that money is subjected to different (or no) taxes? As a consumer we don’t typically pay taxes on “fees” and laws are in place to prevent this from occurring (they can’t bury the fees in the price and must show the consumer these breakdowns).

They could just be picking a number that averages out to no profit. They make money on some deliveries, lose money on others, and in the end it comes out roughly even.

“But the fact that charges are the same for a person living 30 miles from the factory being the same for someone living on the other side of the country suggests it’s all profits for automakers.”

This is not what Gaby Hinsliff is saying in the Guardian.

Even if you go pick up a Corvette at Bowling Green they still charge you destination.

I don’t really think it “borders on cruelty” to give Kate Winslet exactly the press cycle she is looking for when she reveals these on-set discussions about her body.

I seriously don’t get why anybody needs to point this out either, dear writer.

Hmm, I think you might be looking for the full review I published last month. The thing you clicked on to complain about not being a full review is a news piece.

Go here - 

H-D just discovered the fastest way to sell to new customers is to *make* them.

You act like Harley became the most popular brand in North America by selling what people didn’t want.