Teehee, this is a GREAT idea.

It's called corporate sponsorship, brah. You can expect to see an ass-full of Batman everywhere everywhere on gawker for months to come.

It wounds the brand because everyone knows that GM cars are poorly designed, but they buy them anyway. The wound is in the reputation.

That's 7.5 minutes long *with tons of edits*. Like editing out the entire reassembly. Look at the 5th Gear video you posted!

Only if you misinterpret what the point of mentioning the Pinto.

Basic tenants ... like ... existence? As in, there exists a lot of poor design in American cars? Yes, existence is a fundamental trait. Still very relevant, though.
> Germans make some fine cars
Yes, I know. I didn't disagree with that. The video of the BMW is meant to show how easy it is to swap the bulb on a BMW. I'm…

Wanting a CTS/ATS over my 20-year-old RX7 with 250K on the clock is not the equivalent of admission that American cars are not poorly designed!

The issue with the Pinto wasn't rust, it was fuel tank fires.

Whoa whoa, hold on there ... you interpreted a metaphor as a literalism there. Is that a deflection?

You must have done it wrong:

Sure it does. American design firms can't even get the basics right anymore, which is why the high end models have disappeared. How good do you think a Beef Wellington is going to be from a chef who can't even fry an egg?

Sure it does. American design firms can't even get the basics right anymore, which is why the high end models have disappeared. How good do you think a Beef Wellington is going to be from a chef who can't even fry an egg?

They might *perform* OK, in the sense of drive-ability, comfort, mileage, etc. But the build quality can still be crap. CTS and ATS have gotten good reviews, but consider that those are near-top-of-the-line models.

Only because American designed cars are horrible. I'm unsure why, exactly. Maybe they are recruiting tradesman engineers from state schools, without enough PhD level design supervision?

> Considering that ...

"Motorcyclists are, in general, sociopaths."
"NO, I'm not a sociopath, therefore it is proven that the average motorcyclist is not a sociopath."

You're really going to publicly put forward that argument?

"Most motorcycle have dangerously loud modified exhausts."
"Some cars also have loud exhausts!"

Again... It's the…

Do > 80% of cars have their emissions equipment removed?

Why are motorcyclist such dickheads?

You have misinterpreted the message in that link & video.

In fact, you are making exactly the same type of misinterpretation that came up when the producer of that video had a debate with an opponent. Not literally the same as the mistake that opponent, but conceptually the same, and on the opposite side of the issue.

This is the paradox of heavy traffic on the road: We give the largest, most dangerous heavy equipment trucks to the people with the least mental capacity and self control.
I mean, if they had more than they do, then they wouldn't be truck drivers. Thus, the paradox.