Because it makes you want to shoot at it when you see one.
The Saudis dig it.
Yes, but how do you heart-click someone in this freaking interface?
For better or for worse, Bangle's impact was beneficial to BMW. Surely, they're still differently sized wieners, with no defining characteristic of the models, except size. However, their sheet metal is at least sculpted in 3D rather than being molded with a frying pan.
I just heard on a Brazilian radio station over the Internet that the driver has a rather long rep sheet. He's got a collection of malfeasances, like driving on the wrong way, driving in reverse, assault, noise disturbance, etc. It seems that he is past the stage of jerk and graduated to criminal.
Here's the evil deed.
Wall St. hucksters, UAW hucksters, political hucksters, it doesn't matter. And I don't care if GM creates jobs. It sucks capital out of the economy that ends up costing jobs elsewhere.
No, it's not. When a company goes bankrupt, those who lent it money become its owners. Instead, in an unprecedented move, the government split the company into the old and the new GM and left the liabilities in the old and the assets in the new, contrary to bankruptcy laws. That's crony capitalism at its best.
Why?
Given that Ford had exclusivity on Microsoft Windows Auto until November 2008, GM should have been able to develop its own interface based on it for the 2010 model year. But it didn't, since it was fighting for survival. Of course, it's not like Microsoft is the only game in town when it comes to automotive computer…