The 70 cents to the dollar thing has been pretty well proven wrong. I'm sure a gender gap exists, but most objective research points to the differences in the kind of careers women choose being careers that typically pay lower salaries.

So, her starting salary is actually MORE than Dan's starting salary, and he had prior experience? Not sure how that $0.70 on the dollar thing works out. Seems to me its more like $1.8 on the dollar compared to men.

Akerson made $1.7M in salary, Barra makes $1.6. They have both separately negotiated incentive packages, 1 of which has yet to be finalized. So here's the question George: How the hell do you know what Mary Barra gets paid? This is a stupid article.

Those "goods" apparently don't mean Barra deserves to get paid as much as the man she replaced, former GM CEO Dan Akerson. CBS News reports that according to a regulatory filing, Barra will be paid $4.4 million in salary and other compensation, while Akerson made $9.1 million in 2012 which included salary and stock…

Only if you use crappy compression and bit rates. Most people don't notice anyway, but for true audiophiles there is always the FLAC standard.

Seriously? Cassettes are making a resurgence? Stop it. Cassettes sound shit, full stop.

Not pictured: the Challenger depressingly and symbolically ramming full speed into a snowplow stationed down the road.

The Coyote fails on the "compactness" test. Thanks to those overhead cams, it takes up almost as much space as a big-block V8.

I'm on the fence of being surprised to not see the Ecotech on the list. The turbo and supercharged forms of the mid 00's are known for their ability to make retarded amounts of power in a FWD car. Plus, they beat Ford's EcoBoost turbo-DI setup by about 5 years.

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Your metaphor is broken. Do people pay you to access your building? That's their monthly subscription fee. It grants them 24/7 access. Including upkeep, the costs almost become static. Granted, if you have a spike in subscribers, you have to use part of your income to expand the branch or face complaints.

Incredible. Using a generator to control the turbo's speed instead of just a wastegate sounds incredible. Can't wait for that idea to hit the consumer market.

Pascals are the SI unit. Use SI prefixes if needed.

I saw reports of the new 8-speed being super light and shifting faster than Porsche's PDK in some instances, so thank you for making that happen. I know Mercedes has had success making extremely fast and amazing sounding autos for their AMG vehicles, so I salute you choice.

Something they already had? What other Chevy has an 8 speed auto? Have I missed something?

You just read what the engineer said and said that. Are you 12? Because you feel it needs a DCT does not mean it NEEDS a DCT. It sounds like the DCT route was evaluated and they went with something better.

What customers really want is a very fast, very responsive transmission, and that's what we've provided. Our new internally designed 8 speed auto is far lighter than the previous 6 speed and any dct that could live behind this engine and we benchmarked the best DCTs in the world for shift speed and quality, and…

The fact you even raised this issue demonstrates everything I hate about new cars.

I'm 6'1" with a long torso. I've bought cars with the 93 way powers seats because the standard ones couldn't get my ass low enough.