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Why did they think it was a good idea to put a song that goes "5..4...3....2......1" in the playlist? I scrambled back to the webpage to see a stunning shot of the dimmed crowd.

See, I'd love that. But for Mazda's sake, especially with the financial position they're in at the moment, it'll kill them.

The V8 is a century-old design. I don't see why how old a design is matters in this conversation. Compare the Wankel to a 1.3 4-pot, and it's less reliable and more thirsty. Compare it to a similarly powered engine, same results. Compare it to a similarly thirsty engine, and it's less powerful and much less reliable.…

You think 250k is a lot of miles? If I maintained my XJ properly which I definitely did not, it would have easily doubled its 275k total. Also, when resorting to attacks to defend a terrible piece of design, at least get the you're/your correct.

I never had one. The engines had to overcome horrible reliability problems to be on par with their competition. That's impressive, but not for the right reasons. Perhaps they could've put all the money they spent making a passable design into making the best turbo 4 ever made for the Speed3 and MX-5 but instead they…

I understand your point about comparing it to today's tech, but they were still selling that engine, brand new, in 2012. Although I never compared it to the Camaro (dunno where you got that from), you have V8's nowadays that are getting 30 mpg, while an engine that is 4 times smaller gets 22. That's kinda absurd, and…

So you have to go through a Doctorate program to know how to start it and turn it off, and even with the lightest of feet (which is bad for the car), you're barely pushing 20 mpg. Also using a race car to justify keeping Wankel's terrible design around is kinda off topic. By that logic we should all have rotary…

Honestly? For Mazda's sake I hope not. The Wankel is terribly unreliable, underpowered, and thirstier than most modern V8s. Unless they can work some Porsche magic making something that is a terrible idea work somewhat well, they should not even begin developing another rotary.

What's with them combining the Cherokee/GC? That would be like combining Escape and Explorer thefts.

I'm sorry I forgot to clarify that I was talking about actual leagues, not the retirement league.

Sorry, I should've clarified. Which competitive professional soccer teams play on turf? I don't count the retirement league as real professional football.

I would get a Phaeton W12, a Flex Ecoboost, a new Expedition, and a Cherokee Country.

What professional soccer teams play on artificial turf? I may be biased as I play at a pretty high level, but turf is a terrible surface to be playing soccer on. The only reason you have turf is because you can't afford to take care of grass, which I understand in the case of high schools and the like, but a World…

Pretty sure Gawker disabled the images, unless their security is terrible.

And it shows just how terrible turf is that they're more willing to play on surfaces like that than the turf itself.

I was thinking more the people that buy life insurance.

If it's inevitable, why not? Isn't that all life insurance is when you boil it down?

$10 says this was crossposted to Gawker/Jezebel. (Haven't checked, just guessing from that comment)

So, everything good about Charlotte isn't from, about, or near Charlotte.