I’m truly touched by your testimonial regarding Artie Johnson.

I had the pleasure of knowing Arnie Johnson for a number of years. Funny that when he told me what he did for a job I didn’t believe him because he just didn’t seem like a CEO much less the CEO of Lotus USA. Then a few days later I saw his name in a quote in an article about Lotus on this very site. I was like maybe…

Thanks.  V-6 with four speed.

Yours is the better and more reasonable automobile.

I have my Fiero on snow tires for RallyCross. Totally the same thing, right?

This right here. In upstate NY the Turkish American owner of the Chobani yogurt company hires a ton of Syrian refugees and other immigrants. Not only do they work harder, but they pass drug screens and eventually become grateful proud citizens. There has been blow back from the oh so welcoming local Republican welcome…

That purple color yo!

NDAs suck... we desperately need legislation to crack down on NDAs that don’t directly involve the protection of legitimate industrial IP. No one should be forced to sign an NDA that hides a company’s culpability just to avoid years of painful litigation. The former occupant of the White House loved NDA’s as a way of…

You can actually buy one ?

Around a decade ago, Elon Musk and Tesla had a great idea. They developed an electric car that was the opposite of what we had come to expect from one. People thought electric cars were slow so they made it fast. We thought they took forever to charge so they developed a way to charge them quickly and built the…

I agree that the PAG years were really good for A-M. For a time in the aughts, you could fairly say that Aston had the best design language in the business.

A lot of people have mixed feelings about the Ford PAG years, but some of the most iconic cars for Aston, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Volvo came out of those years. After Ford threw these brands to the investor wolves during the last financial crisis, Aston struggled to be it’s own company, while Volvo and LR/Jag found…

a front engine with a trunk for golf clubs/dead bodies, are stupid gorgeous, the brand Aston Martin, have a manual option. This sets them apart from the other 4 brands you mentioned.

Aston used to have elegant style — they were simply gorgeous. Now? Not so much.

The business model was built and tested. It unfortunately works.

The Cayenne was a terrible failure. I only bought two!

Maybe AM needs to buy a few Toyota Corolla Crosses and spruce them up a bit.

There’s a fair bit of blasphemy on my part here, but they really needed to do this with the DB9 launch. They are really late to the game on this. It’s been 20 years since the Cayenne launched and effectively saved Porsche. The business model was built and tested. It unfortunately works.

Exactly!

They tend to flop. Look what happened when Porsche tried to sell SUVs...