Couldn’t agree more. Work in the industry, and remember attending conferences where the Toyota/Scion folks would brag their marketing was so precisely targeted, I’d probably never seen one of their ads, as I was 10 years past their target market (“precisely targeted” meant ads in DUB and the laddie mags, Maxim, etc.).

Farley’s comments were referring to the bailout.

It might refer to the fact that GM was able to walk away from a lot of liabilities when they went bankrupt, and essentially started with a clean slate, but got to keep the good parts of the business.

Spot on. Suzuki, the epitome of rational cars, would have never left the US if only 1 in 50 American car customers were sensible, rational buyers.

If consumers actually put their money where their mouth is then “cheap and sensible” would be dominating the market. However, it’s not. Nobody will bother to build vehicles that consumers don’t want. I mean... would you invest your money to make and sell something that you lose money on?

I wouldn’t put the failure of the brand thirteen years after it was created and a decade after he left Toyota on his shoulders. Scion did fairly well in their very narrow, very specific niche at launch. They later lost focus on it and their product cadence set them up for failure. All of this was after he headed off…

As AutoGuy said, Peter DeLorenzo has an excellent write up on autoextremist on Farley:

I like Ford, but Farley is an asshole.

I’m done with SnowRunner. Not out of any spite, or anything like that. I bought the Premium Edition with the season pass, but for some reason Lake Kovd isn’t accessible, so there are no more journeys I can take.

This was some super cool glitch in the Kinja code that made me think a robot had taken my job all of a sudden but it has since been kind of fixed. Sorry.

Granny shifting; not double-clutching like you should

Especially when the allegedly fake someone appears to have been a sockpuppet used to paint the creator (who has had negative professional consequences from bad allyship) as an ally of women of color. Yes, this is a lot of Twitter drama, but it’s a bit deeper than pretending to have a girlfriend in Canada.

This is me at 1am last night asking the same question. But I will say that someone accused of faking the death of someone employed by a prominent university—a death supposedly caused by the current pandemic and which strongly implicates the university of negligence—is going to be a newsworthy story.  

Willy T. tweeted a few weeks back that the most racist person he ever met in racing was Jackie Stewart, so you’re probably not too far off.

Let me remind you. You said:

Can you point out what misinformation this site (Jalopnik) provided?

“I won’t stay silent against racial discrimination and inequality. I will do everything in my power to ensure there is a black man in a black racing suit and black helmet with a pit crew decked out in black driving a black car standing at the top of the podium every week. I will force you to deal with it.”

No joke, right? Hamilton joins Mercedes, the press is all “sellout Hamilton to help Merc keep winning.” He leaves over a dispute, “greedy Hamilton ditches Merc team.” He goes back, “failure Hamilton can’t find better work.” And the whole time, he’s driving pretty reliably excellently, which when you get down to it, IS…

*for racists.  It’s complicated for racists.  

I would watch the Indy 500 again if it was 30 box trucks going at it for 500 miles.