In related news I saw the headlines yesterday about oil futures nose diving (even after already diving earlier in the week), clearly signalling that this morning was going to be double-CRAZY in the markets...

Wow...nice understatement / complete misrepresentation.

You and I are on the same team - the three Jaguar team...

If GM management could actually find anyone as sensible and knowledgeable as you in their product development ranks I’m sure they’d be fired within the week.

The VP of Brand Management at my company uses phrases like those chestnuts, ie. “...becoming a relationship brand.” Coincidentally enough he has horrible taste in automobiles.

I agree. Maybe it seems petty to bring it up, but I don’t want to read a headline that begins ‘NASA Continues to Disappoint..’ even if the punchline makes that first statement ironic.

The Dixie Chicks’ episode pretty much confirmed the rest of the world’s least favorable opinions about the C&W demographic. And that goes for the artists themselves, to the stations that play the music, to the people that listen to it.

Where are all of those editors at Road & Track that penned and published glowing editorials arguing that Brexit was going to revitalize and unshackle the British car industry?

Maybe 20 years from now he can make a movie where he is a close professional associate of widely rumored, and eventually convicted, rapist.

You know what else lots of people saw this weekend?  The top of your mom’s head.

I’m wondering: Are Harley-Davidson board members, management, shareholders, etc. yet to the point where they realize they have one of the most hated brands in America?

I’m out in Colorado too, and I second your observation.

Apparently the justification for only offering the normally aspirated engine in the convertible 300zx was that the structure was too compromised to cope with the higher bhp of the turbo.

Agreed. The earliest reviews for almost everything are nothing but hype, and attempts to explain away issues.

This article speaks to me... I probably have 5 mustard varieties in my fridge right now, and it’s not even summer yet.  Good article!

This article speaks to me... I probably have 5 mustard varieties in my fridge right now, and it’s not even summer…

Somebody call the fire department, I just got burned.

As I write this I am enjoying a so-called vacation at my GF’s family home in 21st century rural Oklahoma...

I’ve been hoping my whole life to see a 1970's-era Hasidic Jew (sporting massive sideburns and a Brooklyn accent) stuff a yarmulke down the throat of a Nazi, who is incognito as a bartender, while disco music plays gently in the background... is this my show? 

Occasionally we run across people who have such ridiculous / odious personal lives that it makes it impossible to separate their work from who they’ve shown themselves to be otherwise.

In the end General Motors actually gets promoted to President of All Cars, just like Captain Bankruptcy is now President of All Business!