The reality about it being delivered at commencement is that there would have been no other meaningful forum for her to do so and by doing so a significant and meaningful audience has heard and some may have listened. Seems this forum serves as a pretty good example of that. Sure as heck would have not heard a peep…

Don’t think so...Would you say “I” if you took out “my parents and”.... Wouldn’t you say “me” and this was the test I was taught in 4th grade. Maybe Mr. Claus had it wrong...

Oh look. Someone at jalopnik or gizmodo group has sent me down to the greys. Fucking hell this place. It used to be so good. Now it’s just a circle jerk to Erica’s instagram.

I knew someone would come along with this straw man argument. Do you want to talk about the content of the article or do you want to be a SJW arguing about which pronouns I should use to express my frustration when someone writes an article making fun of my preference for a car that drives well?

Yes, I read the article. She’s making fun of us, tongue in cheek or not, for enjoying how cars drive. If she showed any interest in cars, her sarcasm could be taken as that, but she doesn’t.

I appreciate your humble understanding and polite admonishment of my disapproval of this article.  

Amen.  Nothing like going to one of your favorite websites and getting made fun of by a wanna be instagram celeb (Google her) that had to get a real job doing real work.  

That’s how I took it. It would be one thing if Tracy wrote it. But he didn’t. The woman who shows no interest in cars, other than getting paid by a car website, is poking fun at what automotive enthusiasts have traditionally liked about cars; driving them.

Who says I’m dying on any hill? I just think it’s odd to mock, even in a sarcastic/tongue in cheek manner, the very demographic, which she is NOT a part of, that generates revenue for the employer that pays you.

Am I the only one a little insulted that a chick driving a shit box 2007 Sentra is making fun of gear head preferences for simple cars through assimilation to power wheels? Fuck off, stick to videos.

Holy shit. I think this is the first time I and another internet person agree on something! ;)

I’m not disagreeing with you, but just pointing out the absurdity of it all. If shareholders want 30% then they can and should invest in those services company. The same shareholders who want 30% are the same shareholders who have kept wages stagnant for 20 years then wonder why the market can’t support 30% margins…

I was at a firestone once getting my tire patched and a woman got new tires for her mid 2010s Lexus RX and her price was $1400 as well. It’s insane. You can buy tires off of amazon and have them to your house in two days then take them to the local garage and have them put on for $100. I’ve not spent over $500 on…

Steve Smith is that you!?

Jerry Kill, isn’t he the coach who recruited the players that got caught sexually assaulting women that eventually got Kill’s replacement, fired?

Engineering is ultimately trial and error, those with experience are much better at trial and error than those without. If the veteran employees are gone and no matter how much Ford tried to document their tribal knowledge, lots is lost in the firing/resigning of long time employees. Therefore, do you really want to…

5th Gear:

Articles like this is how we ended up with Donald Trump as president. Nit picking phrasing instead of seeing that the whole message is greater than the sum of its parts and definitely greater than what we have now. Baby steps forward is a much more feasible approach than giant leaps forward.  Trump has taken us giant…

Thats my whole point. The financial realities of this car means it isn’t feasible in the US market. They’d either price it competitively and loose money or price it with some profit and then no one would buy it.

Vans are never going to look “good.”  But neither are SUVs.  I’d take this over any dumb ass fucking SUV ever made.  They’re all ugly.  At least this is actually useful and frugal.