If someone slapped an MT09 badge on this, would your average rider still think it was a Ducati?

This is financial decision and standardizing frames is a good financial decision. Aesthetically, put the new bike next to an MT-09, in all black, it will be hard to tell the difference (with all due respect to MT-09s they’re good bikes).

Sorry, the design is terrible, and you’re not demanding better from Ducati for being this lazy.

As a current Ducati owner and life long fan, I tend to agree that losing the trellis frame was a mistake; Ducati is an expression of mechanical art that’s supposed to appeal to the visual and auditory senses. So there’s no more trellis frame, dry clutch, single sided swing arm as well as an obvious lack of distinctive…

I have been real happy with prime beef (Which at least my Costco now carries).  Reverse sear has been a game changer for me with cook at home steaks.  On par with what I have bought for <$100 in better Chicago steak houses.

Exactly! I wish big brands wouldn’t be so reflexively quick to beat a hasty retreat at the first sign of outrage.

“The two biggest red flags someone has an alcohol problem is hiding the consumption from others, and relying on alcohol to get through the day,” Martha Duke, a spokeswoman for the sobriety support network Recovering Out Loud told Page Six

“For UPS and FedEx it’s as if Christmas came in July and yet Christmas is actually yet to come.”

“that still represents a massive liability for any company”

What do you mean? Every picture is credited to Mr. Spanfeller

So you Jalops realize just how solid of a dude you have at the helm, on the day this news became known, Rory took notice of a comment I’d made asking the editors to help us save OPPO and replied asking me to email him. A few hours later he called me and we had a long conversation about how much we both cared about the…

This made me very sad to read, as a community we really appreciate the kind words though. We’d love nothing more than to stay here an active part of Jalopnik.

Long live OPPO, indeed.

Starred for 2ZZ reference. What a fantastic engine!

This Passat isn’t just special because it has a standard transmission. The W8 itself is rare car with effectively a one-off engine. The W8 engine was created, used in the Passat, then never used again. The closest thing to it is the W12 of the Phaeton or W16 of the Veyron. So it’s a weird piece of VW history in a…

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I hadn’t considered goats.