It's already cost them something - price not disclosed for a lease on two floors of a fancy building in SoHo, and Autoblog has it at probably around $67 per square foot, more than triple a comparable place in Detroit. I'd bet that those two floors are not their endgame, so expenses seem certain to rise.

I wonder how much of that $12 billion will go towards increasing their footprint in NYC given the direction real estate prices here are headed. I get what de Nysschen is saying about getting out of Detroit to see things from a non-GM perspective, but it still seems like kind of a short-sighted move that could divert…

I can't even begin to imagine that thing at 116. People were fucking nuts back then.

I don't think you read the piece.

No, but clearly you are going to keep missing the point of the article by writing off the entire mid-size segment.

I find shandies are useful in the original (alleged) context of being able to drink more beer all day - in the summer you can plow through a case before dinner without getting too drunk or tired. But I have to disagree with you on the Del's Shandy - I was really excited for it last summer but when I finally got some…

Good contribution.

Tally-ho! Wot wot!

It's true, and the Mirage is garbage. And for all the used car naysayers, you could get a new Fiesta for not much more.

It's grown on me too - the pull-back completes the suggestion of a "corner" there, I think.

I was just thinking that. To me it is also a callback to the slab-side designs of the '60s and '70s, from certain angles it looks like it's tracing how the fender edges used to jut forward at the front.

This didn't happen for me, we started out in a private lobby and after the first setup we were all kicked back to random public lobbies. Happened every time.

And he even tried to keep driving! (burnout at :29)

That steering looks positively featherweight

There will be a lot of hate for this roofline, but I love it. Reminds me of an old Tatra.

The freshness is key - I've aged out of my rose-tinted nostalgia that everything was amazing and delicious when I studied abroad in Prague (it wasn't, especially the goulash), but the fresher Pilsner Urquells you get over there definitely taste better than the imports here. 'Tis a fine beer and I buy them whenever I…

helloooooo high school memories

This is just speculation, but I assumed she didn't reverse because she didn't want the crossing arm to scrape over the roof of her car.

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Actually I'd like to apologize, I probably shouldn't have given you a hard time about it.