When I worked at GameStop a few years ago, we had this thing called "Vendor of the Month", where various vendors would pay a premium to the company to get their merch prolifically displayed. In addition, corporate would provide incentives to the managers for selling large numbers of "VoM" merch, which would inflate…

@Jstas: Qualifies to be brilliant, you mean. Throw in a branded monocle and you've got a sale.

re: 4th gear: Wait a minute, am I reading this right? GM is turning down sales in order to build awareness? Yeah guys, keep 'em in the showroom, where the only people who will see them are people who are already interested instead of selling all that you can and letting the uninitiated see them out on the road being…

Apparently "pitch & catch" is the national pastime?

I like everything about this photo.

I'm not a fan of the '63's split window, but yes. Something very much like that.

@Cisco-Kid: This reads like one of those Old Spice ads.

5th gear: New stingray, please.

Meanwhile, we here in the states laugh at and mock Toyota all the time, and what do they do? Buy ad space on Jalopnik.

@ ~0:20Did he say he was trying to eke out performance in cornholing?

Those rear tires! I can't even imagine how much they must cost and how fast they must get turned into vapor.

They sound an awful lot like an orchestra.

Wow, didn't realize the base model was that (again, comparatively) cheap. I'd only ever looked at boxters / caymans.

@Wess28: Much like the US, there's a large swath in the middle that nobody cares about.

Dear god, I've become "that guy"... the guy who thinks "man, if he'd devoted that much time to a real mixing board, he'd be a real musician".

50% completion is actually pretty high by industry standards.

Chauffeurs also assist people in getting to places. It was a joke. A failed one, apparently.

Isn't $185k sorta cheap for something like this, compared to the rest of the Porsche line?

@Spikejnz - the snozzberries taste like snozzberries: What's it like being a Chauffeur?

We'll be seeing WRX turbo / exhaust swaps onto these within an hour of going on sale, I'm sure.