Eh. My point though is that he built it up as flipping the script on the fantasy tropes - but in the end, the first POV character in the first book was Bran, the second was Jon - and I think GRM has ultimately settled into something that is more or less traditional. We’ll see how the ending plays out. But if Jon ends…

I’d have been fine that Arya killed the Night King if Jon and Dany had shown an iota of cleverness in manipulating the final confrontation. I hate the deus ex machina sort of bailouts these people get at EVERY large confrontation. It would have been fine if they were overwhelmed and basically were saved at the last…

Good point - hadn't thought of that.

Eh. There were some pretty consistent battle leaders out there. They weren’t just lucky all the time. Again, going back to Robb, due to budget constraints, they didn’t always show the tactics, but the strategy was definitely there. Don’t see either here. 

Again, I’m a Toyota FAN. I’ll drive my 4Runner until the sun burns out, I test drove the GT86 just for kicks, and then proceeded to borrow my friend’s and flog it to within an inch of its life (with his permission), and its. just. noooottt. quite. there....

That’s kind of the point. You take a person that’s pretty much lost and had to have been bailed out at every opportunity - has the same critical flaw that doomed Eddard Stark (the inability to obfuscate even for a second to save a lot of lives), and I’m pretty much left pretty cold as to what Jon’s redemptive…

Sweet. Is it so they can drive their underwhelming cars on it without being passed all day by German hatchbacks?

Uhh, in the middle of the battle?

Agreed - but I think GRM’s general arc is being obeyed here. As I mentioned in another comment in another thread, it’s like he blew his shock and awe wad fairly early on after Eddard and Robb (who by the way - they still managed to show as a fairly competent general without blowing a bunch of budget), and now, we are…

My only quibble was that it played out like every other battle ever in this series. You can have Arya kill the night king - but any kind of semblance of a battle plan or some sense that Jon and Dany gave some actual thought to what might happen would have been nice. But once again - they just flail around acting brave…

Next gen GTI is still on the same platform - so it’s more like a facelift. And if the spyshots are accurate it isn’t a good facelift. I’ll keep my MKVII thanks. 

You can get pretty close to 4% now for a used car loan at credit unions. And anyone with a 700 credit score can get a loan for a used car. 4% isn’t bad for today’s market.

Yeah I don’t think this is close to correct. I would say, don’t modify a daily driver that you have a loan on, or is under warranty. My 20 year old 4Runner is paid off and modded within an inch of its life, and will continue to get modded and I’ll continue driving it daily until the sun burns out.

And yet - GM rental sales are 10% of their total sales. If Ford has a bigger market share and rentals are a third of fleet sales? Still a substantial number.

Again - Ford doesn’t disclose the number of Fusion sales that are Fleet sales, but they hold the highest market share of any OEM in the US for fleet sales and we can guess that the number is substantial.  Second - it’s relevant that the Fusion, with fleet sales, isn’t outselling even the competitors’ 2nd and 3rd best…

Fusion are sold by the bucketloads to fleets. It’s worth noting that it’s behind pretty much all of Toyota, Honda and Nissan’s mid size and small sedan offerings. 4th, maybe in mid sized sedans, but again, fleet sales.

Seems like an excellent opportunity for building them up the right way then right? I don’t think you're making any points here.

You need to go check the sales numbers. The numbers were only not good for Ford.

Lol. And? Do you think this might be because board rooms actually try to include them?

These ideas have to originate in the board room, that’s the only reason I can think of for the shortsightedness.