Also, OEMs often get corporate deals on travel packages at resorts, which also provide access to large halls to hold product events, and provide catering and whatnot in one shot. For corporate travel, the "fancy" places have all that stuff laid out, and it's especially helpful when an OEM is running 10 waves of media…

This is why Jalopnik is awesome. Because they have the balls to post this stuff.

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Minus a bit of the language, I totally agree. Gas drops ten cents, and everybody goes and buys a Suburban.

I would delete the photo for your own sake. Warranty bud :)

Man, I'm gonna miss that car. So fun to watch rip around a course. It was fun racing with you, Raphael.

There are plenty of people who clearly don't need a large SUV other than to satisfy holes in their ego. I, on the other hand, have a foster home for physically abused infants... the kind with permanent brain damage and have no feeling or use of their hands/feet. We have one of the 8000 pound monsters, because we…

Could not agree more. I'm always astounded that as soon as gas prices drop, sales of small cars and hybrids drop and sales of full-size pickups and SUVs rocket up. It makes me weep for the future that people really are that fucking stupid and shortsighted.

Anyone who pays $70k for what is essentially a Tahoe (which is overpriced as it is) is a complete idiot. The 4Runner is a much better option, and it likely won't have reliability issues.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I've met, tops 3 or 4 people in my life with adequate foresight. I remember families I knew in the early to mid-00s buying Tahoes, Yukons, Escalades, H3s, then having to sell them because gas skyrocketed. They could totally afford the gas, these people had money, but they just freaked out…

Indeed, cables can corrode and fail. I have never heard of electronics going bad.

Regardless, it shouldn't affect the transmission. If it's an electronic e-brake, then it should be brakes that are engaged based on an electrical signal.

"MURANO: It's For The Birds!" whatever that means.

Good fact checking, Raphael. Have you considered working for Rolling Stone?

I've never posted in it before just now. I can't stand it.

didn't know Merc was the leader in autonomous cars. Still, less coffee table, more manual trans.