Agreed. The market usually does a pretty good job of filtering out less competitive options.

I don’t disagree with your sentiment, however, I think it’s simply not feasible in the incredibly competitive and difficult car market. But your point about car segments isn’t really on target. The Focus and Mustang are entirely different cars, for entirely different buyers. The commonality of an engine choice is…

Oh, no, I wasn’t trying to say that the SS would, in any way, be just like a Malibu. I should have stated that better. I simply meant that, from a marketing and model position standpoint, if the price dropped down far enough to make the SS more of a sales leader, GM would have to drop that many more luxury /…

The thing is, it’s not really “amazing”. The fact that it’s a RWD, V8, manual car certainly is neat, but that alone doesn’t make it truly stand out. I’ve driven the previous G8 models, the GXP, and the 2015 SS - and I can say that, for the money, they’re just not that special. The very heavy weight mitigates much of…

Those things were lemons from the start. I know two (car-stupid) people who bought those. Neither kept them longer than a year, because they were always in the shop.

Focus ST buying guide. Step one: Wait for Focus RS.

This sound like me just tossing on shorts and flip-flops.

Bullshit. I’d know what my dog was saying, because it would be: BACON...BACON...BACON...BAAAAAACCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

Out of curiosity, what about something like the various Oakley boots many of our enlisted and special forces wear? I have to figure those have some solid performance features. Maybe?

I’ll give you four ways to know whether a TV show is going to stink:

As the Vikings fan that you unfortunately are, I assume that was meant as a rhetorical question, right?

The only people interested in moving to Europe are the refugees from Syria. And that’s only because Europe is just a little better than being raped and killed at home. Other than that, there’s absolutely no reason to spend any time in that filthy old collection of nation states.

Why? “Strong Social Labour”? Give me a break. That’s just a different group with its hand out, as opposed to industry with its hand out. There are precious few (none) countries even remotely close to the size, and character, of our United States, which strongly succeed with “strong social labour”.

He’s amazing. He’ll have his own incredible collection of rare stats, just like Manning, when he retires with one SuperBowl victory, just like Manning.

What a fucking tool. I couldn’t agree more.

Fuck PETA. I just kicked a little kitten. Come stop me from getting out the super glue...

Some do. I just can’t get past the staccato-delivery, cue-card dialogue. It also feels disconnected. There’s a reason why most good story writers STILL need even better screen writers to help adapt their work. For instance, look at The Counselor. Cormack McCarthy clearly knows how to write a story. But when he did the…

James Bond very much approves.

Great movie. The plot, even with the trite ending shootout, is still good enough to make it a classic. The actual writing and dialogue is borderline, but at least nowhere near as flat and mechanical as anything from someone like David Mamet (good Lord, David Mamet...).

I’ll wager that I’m one of the very few people around here who have seen that in actual CINERAMA. The original one, in fact.