Well... there is a similarity between Harley riders and sentient war-like gorillas. Go ahead, blow it up. Like the head of the Statue of Liberty on the beach, you have to destroy free-dumb to save free-dumb.

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Buell was an attempt to diversify their product offerings.  You were suggesting they rebrand, and I’m saying rebrands are rarely successful.  I probably should have started a new paragraph to make it more clear that those were two separate ideas.

They tried that when the bought Buell. It was a decent attempt at diversification. But it didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Successful rebrands are rare. I can only think of one off the top of my head, and while Harley is also a disaster, there’s little chance of redemption for them. Let them go the way of AMC.… Read more

All I’m going to say is, it better be self cleaning. Try explaining why you’re walking that into the office after your morning commute. Not to mention how gamey your car will be after an 8 hour shift if you don’t.
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I’m not pissed. But I am amused. So many people are unhappy with the stories on the site. Yet you’re (we’re, really...) all still here. Either you’re all not-so-secretly masochists or you should/could just silently vote with your feet. Go read Autoblog or something else instead. (No, don’t do that.  Oath is evil)
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This would have happened anyway when the PSA merger is complete.  So cleaning up the portfolio now and potentially shedding a few jobs before that takes place is all for the good.  Gotta make room for the new platforms they’ll be bringing over.

“Hoping for the best but expecting the worst...” is no way to go through life, son.

Wait a minute,  Ghost Scruffy is the dog that’s haunting my Sport Ka...

Isn’t it odd how the same people who decry abortion also condemn birth control and sex education in schools?

Chrysler/Dodge. Take your pick. Dart, Intrepid/Concorde/LH sedans... only better, of course.

Because BMW motorcycles don’t have enough ultra expensive components that fail a bit too often... then again, it’s how the dealers stay in business.

It’s a campaign we should all get behind. If you haven’t yet, delete your Facebook account. The reason advertisers are there in the first place is because they think they can reach you there. Remove the incentive. Read more

I think this might be the new “Most gratuitous use of the word ‘Belgium’” for 2020...

According to the live stream (video available on YouTube) the new F-150 will be available this fall.  Not exact, but not exactly unknown when we’ll see it.

Yup.  Sold my K1300GT last year.  35+ years of riding and inattentive assholes on their mobile phones--even in the middle of nowhere--drove me out of the sport. I still miss two wheel touring.

I see the politics of the situation is already out of control in the comments. But I’m going to stop with a single comment: Excellent work, Aaron. Jalopnik should do more in depth stuff like this.

That’s a house price in my part of the country...

My point is that you can’t prove it either way. Since you can’t truly know, why make assumptions about what really happened?

But you did. At the very rallies that violence and looting occurred. It was all done by people on the right to discredit the demonstrators and cause chaos. Now, prove me wrong.