How many people at FCA had to let the MotorTrend editor masturbate in front of them to get that award?

I could spot the try-hard, still not sure I’d know it was an SS.

I don’t know how long they were trying to get that, but that is what they were trying for. I went to the dealer when they came out, saw the market adjustment marked on the windshield and didn’t even bother talking to anyone about it. I just waited for the FR-S.

This surpasses Crack Pipe.

Forgot about those. I never see those anymore either.

As an interesting note, the SR20Des failed in relatively high numbers in these cars because they were usually mated to an automatic transmission. Apparently the SR gets sludged up if you don’t regularly spin it past 4000 rpm.

That sounds like a relatively accurate summary.

Then there’s the small part of proving this kid caused financial damage by promoting the game on Youtube.

It’s a novelty can of chips. If she held it for 30 years and managed not to damage it in any way, she could maybe sell it for today’s price adjusted for inflation.

Thanks for that video.

How did you know about the badge engineering?

The SR20De was not used across the board on the Sentra. It was the engine from the Sentra SE-R, which was a great little car that I never see anymore.

I think flamethrowers are legal everywhere but CA. It was in a story I read the other day (odd that it would come up twice in a week...).

My friend and I had crappy cars and worked at a restaurant with a very cheap manager who hated to call (and pay) the snow play company. We worked there during a very snowy winter, and the parking lot was usually fresh snow over hard packed snow/ice when we got done at the end of the night.

It would be an extra kick in the nuts is they were an early genesis coupe buyer and had paid a $4000 premium over MSRP (what my local dealer wanted) to have it immediately drop like stone.

For me, I think, personally, that makes it appealing to me on a personal level.

They were basically paying for the factory and labor to build that number of cars whether they got cars out of it or not. The SS was basically made from the last contracted supplies they were committed to buy.

I’m a car guy, and I doubt I could pick out an SS in traffic. I probably wouldn’t even look at it long enough to read the badges.

That’s fewer sales than a typical Miata year in the US, and the SS should have had a lot broader appeal than the Miata since it has like a roof and back seats and stuff.

You pick.