The Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet would like a word. 

It did not. Lancia had already left the US market by then. 

The stories I heard from old guys like the the late Bob Sinclair (former US head of Saab and the guy responsible for the 900 convertible) blamed a lot of the differences between the 9000 and the three Fiats on Saab’s greater need to get to market faster. If you’ll recall, when the 9000 launched, Saab’s only model was…

それは陽気な白い男の子です。

If Nissan decides that, absent Ghosn, they’d like a divorce, it’ll cost them more cash than they can really afford. Remember how much more of Nissan is owned by Renault than Nissan owns of Renault. 

This is exactly what I said yesterday, even as the facts were still coming in. Nothing is scarier to a Japanese company than the prospect of foreign control.

Situation 1: The Maccan has 248 hp, but don’t say that until 11/22. (That’s called an information embargo and Jalopnik doesn’t honor those.)

After returning from Japan I briefly dated a woman who’d emigrated to the US from Japan as a child with her parents. Her father was open with me in that I wasn’t someone he approved of, per se. in his hierarchy of who was worthy, were:

More likely than a sense of entitlement is a genuine (and either unintentional or, at least, common practice) blurring of the personal and professional, which, in turn, was used by individuals in the company to oust the outsider. If a non-Japanese person ever wonders what racism looks like, spend a few months or years…

I will always remember the 850 because I had one as a rental car on an epic Vegas road trip when I was in my 20s. Hertz had just introduced their prestige program (or whatever they called it). My friends and I were road tripping to Vegas from SoCal and my truck didn’t have enough seats for everyone, so I offered to…

I have to say that I’ve always preferred the T34 Große Karmann.

Let’s not forget the vagaries of the Swiss car market, especially in the mid to late 20th century. No market in Europe bought as many US market GM products, including lots of Cadillacs, Suburbans, and Vanduras. A lot of this can be chalked up to the fact that the Bienne factory had long been building not only Opels…

If I’m the guy programming the sensors, I’m going to error on the “premature deployment” every time, given the fallout from “didn’t deploy as necessary”. 

The fundamental problem with Saab under GM wasn’t the product, per se. Saab engineers did amazing things with the GM platforms and no money.

Not really. NEVS is pretty much dead too at this point (unless you’re a city in China). 

Let’s not kid ourselves that the Ubisoft model is anything other than the Candy Crush of open world gaming. By the end of a game, you’ve essentially completed the same action (base takeover, race, etc) a zillion times. How is that any different than crushing candy?

Technically, it’s a suit for a violation of the FDCPA.  

Curiously, it’s not. 

Funny story* about collection agencies.

I think that nails it. The church doctrine bans all clergy sex. If you’re faced with a total ban, it’s not hard to see where it’s easy to self justify deviant sexual behavior as “no worse” than any other transgression against canonical law.