I think blaming Edsel’s styling for the failure is over simplifying things, especially considering that 1958 was it’s most successful year, with the more normal looking ‘59 and ‘60 models selling far worse.

There were a lot of issues. You had the senior series models priced above Mercury, but the junior series priced…

In the 90's I worked with a guy that had an Edsel. The body was in good shape although it was all in primer. That car is monstrously hideous in person. A true eyesore. However bad you think it looks in photos, it is far worse in person.

A few years after Acura remodeled its TL with the bucktooth front end and suffered massive sales flop, a survey was done by a popular car magazine to find out why.

As if anyone in the 1950s actually knew what a vagina looked like.

That’s at least supposed to be a horseshoe.

The 850CSi was technically not an M car, and had the S70B56.

I’m a little surprised that the X3M isn’t putting down better acceleration numbers considering the power. The X3 40i with “355 hp” from the B58 already does 0-60 in 4.4-4.6 seconds. The X3M does the same in (est.) 4.0-4.1 seconds despite being rated as 40% more powerful. With 500+ hp and AWD one would think it would…

Why would an M engine be in a non-M Z4?

I have a X3 M40i, the seats are super comfortable to me (I realize this is subjective) the super cushy seats wreck your back on a long road trip. I traded in an Audi S6, with seats that all the car magazines raved about, and they sucked. I agree with you on the acceleration, the difference between the Audi’s Twin Turbo…

listen, they aren’t as good as fast cars.

“I do think Brad has a point about the devaluation of the M-brand.”

Well, the SUVs are bigger and heavier.

Analytics are not inherently bad; they’re just valuable. It’s the increasing control that is the issue. When the average person cannot realistically make the choice to opt out and there is little oversight, the few businesses that control the valuable analytics are imbued with immense power. This creates dangerous…

I’m struggling to think of a time where allowing a corporation to do whatever it wanted for as long as it wanted ended well for the general public.

“Listen, if you or anyone else can’t be fucked to pay attention to what’s actually been happening”

That’s a huge wall of text to simply say:

This is a really good point. I went into a bank branch the other day, and I was going to use an ATM there anyway, but it was the first I noticed they didn’t have a single teller booth! There was no electronic safe, or lock box safe, and only “financial consultants” were in the building.

There are alternatives to using big tech companies.

Really?

Okay, hold up here.