The side skirts and wheels to me say “sporty”, but I guess in a more Corolla S kind of way. I am sure that what we are seeing now is the higher trim, so the lower trim levels will probably be without the side skirts.

I’m not saying that it will be a bad car, I’m just saying that it has really stiff competition in todays compact hatchback market. For instance, I’m not sure how they are going to sell that 137 hp engine, all of the reviewers absolutely love to hate on the base Mazda3 for being glacially slow in their eyes and it has…

Toyota beancounters “What’s literally the least amount of money we can spend to get this car to market?” They couldn’t tweak the sides and rear to make the iA look at least vaguely like the iM? I thought automakers were all about brand continuity today in the automotive styling department?

It’s underwhelming compared to every other compact hatchback in the US market.

137 hp and a rear torsion beam suspension... So they are not trying to compete with the Golf, Focus, and Mazda3... but it’s the same size and looks like a Focus or (last gen) Mazda3, so they are trying to compete with the other major compact hatchbacks? Other than that, spot on for the current Toyota ethos of “Looks…

Also "retain greater creative control when selling screen rights."

There are women flying F-16s and F-15s and we had women flying the Space Shuttle, I think the gender can handle F1 cars.

It's a joke about how much Audi shares it's design language with VW even though in the US they occupy different markets or price points.

What if I don't want to drive an expensive Jetta with a cleft lip?

Who do you think pays those private companies to run the prisons, not the prisoners? The federal and state government - the taxpayers, but with privately owned prisons the taxpayers have to pay to run the prisons + markup to line the pockets of the private investors. Lose - Lose, we pay more for a shitier prison…

I completely agree. I am not an expert at all in law, but it's a Sunday afternoon/evening and i'm bored so I spent a few minutes reading an article and then commented my thoughts on it, hell I even did a little research http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg534/S…. I don't really know how you are using futzing around in an…

If after being convicted and fined the guy continued Swatting people the judge convicting him the second time would probably take into consideration his previous record of not learning from his mistakes and send him straight to jail, and probably also fine him again.

Do you know how the justice system works in the US? This fine wouldn't be an unpaid parking ticket. A crime like this would be a felony, you don't pay that fine, you get a warrant put out for your arrest, you get arrested and go to jail.

Your first comment was troll-tastic. I mean, really? Let's just kill them? That's what my rebuttal was about. If they knew capital punishment was cruel and unusual punishment for this case, yet still somehow got him sentenced for it and then executed him before that sentence could rightfully be repealed they would get…

I completely agree, understand, and sympathise. I've had a couple of very close friends try and fail to get the psychological help they needed through our current system. My main argument on this post is that in the current state of America, sending them to jail is arguably worse than providing them with mediocre…

One of the problems with sentencing people who are already steeped in the extremist MRA/Gamersgate ideology to long jail sentences is that because of the significant ideological overlaps between extremist MRA/Gamersgate groups and the neo-Nazi prison gangs in the US prison system we would essentially be handing over…

Yeah, when eugenics was popular in the US before World War II there was a public push towards the castration of violent criminals and up until the 1970s some state mental patients were chemically castrated. Today though castration of both criminals and mental patients is considered cruel and unusual punishment and a…

I agree that if it is found that this guys intent was to escalate the situation to the point where the SWAT team felt they are forced to used deadly force than maybe attempted murder should be looked at by the prosecutor. However my original disagreement was with the push towards life imprisonment for this Swatting…

Seeing for the crime of Swatting capital punishment would be considered cruel and unusual punishment I am not sure the justice department would allow it. If however, the Swatting perpetrator was sentenced by a court of court of law and then executed anyway I don't know if the ensuing multi-million dollar wrongful…

If they can't pay the fine outside of jail how would they be able to pay the fine while in jail? If they are doing seriously immature things like Swatting people maybe they need psychological help more than they need jail time. So maybe they get probation + community service + psychological help + paying a symbolic…