The Storm were playing the Sparks when this stunt took place. The Storm had a bunch of key players move on and is rebuilding, so they kind of suck right now. Tickets were probably cheap and available.

Chicken/egg. WNBA gets the audience it targets, along with people like me who watch and occasionally go to games despite clearly not being their target audience.

Good question, and possibly an answer to why they are not more popular. The answer is they are getting the viewers they are targeting. There just aren’t enough of them out there.

More popular ≠ better

Are you genuinely curious about why the WNBA doesn’t do as well as it could? Or is this just your device for arguing with the other commenter? Because as someone who watches a lot of WNBA (live and on TV) despite not being their target demo, I have thoughts.

Assuming you meant “shouldn’t have said loan”.

IIRC, GM’s SuperCruise is a subscription service, and the subs pay for the almost constant scanning and updating they’re doing.

That’s where I’m at. I’ve paid for SiriusXM since long before Spotify or any of the other streaming services. Used to be a big Howard listener, though I don’t anymore. I’d rather have uninterrupted content for long trips that isn’t dependent on a cell signal.

My wife (MS) and her two friends (PhDs) are planning on going to the movies this weekend. They’re going to see Barbie. We’ll probably go to see Oppenheimer at some point, but sometimes you just want a little escapism.

Yeah, and it spread the costs of the programming you wanted to watch by also carrying programming you didn’t want to watch.

You mean like they used to? That is kind of the general idea behind roaming. It’s not exactly the same, but in the before times if you went out of your cellular network you got dinged.

Another example of a manual transmission not making a car enjoyable to drive. Test drove one of these back in 2009 and couldn’t get out of it fast enough.

Here in the northeast:

Fair enough. Outside of maybe full-size Ram pickups, you really don’t see may Chrysler products of that era, period. I see an Intrepid on occasion during my travels, and it’s a unicorn.

Neons and SRT4s could take a beating, but they rust. I see more SRT4s than I’d like to admit, but the lack of Neons makes the few that do remain have some value.

There was a definite lack of imagination at the time, plus the 2008 financial crisis. The short-term optics of a high-end EV or hybrid at the time would not have been great while GM was going to DC with their hands out.

My preference would have been a Volt brand, but designing it initially as a Cadillac could/would have opened up some things for GM. I do realize that the timing of the Volt’s development and rollout during the 2008 financial crisis was a big factor, but I also recognize that GM has a bad habit of doing these things.

The ELR is the punchline from GM doing the Volt wrong.

Just like GM did with the original Volt. Should’ve been either a Cadillac, or its own, stand-alone brand. Instead they limited what they could charge for it by selling it as a Chevrolet.

No worries. Even trying to simplify my original comment was making my head spin, and as noted, my EPL example wasn’t as apt as I thought.