now THIS is the pedantry i come here for

You’re not wrong, but I also read something recently that does paint a more optimistic picture on this:

Relax, chief. I You’re making the same point I am: they’re different vehicles, both in offroad utility and the veneer of offroad utility. I didn’t say anything about them being interchangeable. 

You’re not disagreeing with me as much as you are with the premise for these aircraft. The 787 being different from an A330 is the whole point I’m making: a purpose-built long-range aircraft paints the market with a broader brush than re-purposing a mid-range aircraft. The latter requires you to balance a lot of…

Different strokes for different folks. Ridgeline is for people who know what they need it for, Tacoma is much more truck-bro oriented.

I think you described the issue of the floor for the cost, while I described the ceiling (people who won’t spring for a ride on a 787 or A380). Moral of the story is both limits leave a really narrow window for these to hit in the market.

To the same point, it begs the question if that calculus was even worth it if it’s right.

Actual graphics aside, I gotta say, every “setting” they show in the trailer looks like it something already in GTA V. That kinda makes me nervous that VI is just going to be V in another outfit. Hopefully all the neon and cocaine make this feel novel, or at least like it’s the current game cranked up to 12.

Cheers. My 2016 GT that I got secondhand in 2018 is going to be around forever. There’s an old school charm to it but is just modern enough for me to not feel like I’m missing anything vs something new. It just ticked over 60k, and I keep telling myself it’ll move it to a strictly weekend car soon, but it’s too much…

2nd Gear: as dumb as it is that the Bolt went from dead to not dead in like 3 months, it remains a good mark on GM that somebody that matters looked at what was happening in the EV market this summer and went “holy fuck, all of these things are too goddam expensive”.

You’re putting more though into this than FCA ever did. I’m convinced the entire premise for this vehicle was: “maybe people will buy a rebadged Fiat if it’s a Jeep”.

Using midrange aircraft for long distance flights is a tough market in general. It demands a really fine calculus to determine how miserable of an experience someone is willing to put up with for the sake of a cheap long-distance flight, and whether you can hit that with enough people to make money on it. It sounds…

“what’s the use of leaking anything now? A single days worth of internet clout?”

I dunno, the last remaining Lancias are *so* far removed from what made the originals cool, it sort of takes the sting out. Stellantis isn’t even trying to convince anyone the present form of Lancia captures any of the pedigree the old brand had. It’s just an alternative to Fiat made with branding they already had…

Furthermore, all of the midsize trucks were cramped penalty boxes prior to the big Taco and Colorado refreshes in 2016. Nobody wanted to sit in one of those for more than an hour at a time, let alone stick four people inside, even if you had four full doors. Small truck nostalgia clouds the fact they all drove and…

This is equal parts accurate, funny, and wholesome. Take all the stars. 

Woof, I think this explanation is self-contradictory. The whole idea that you wanted to spend a ludicrous amount of money modifying an expensive product as a means of being unique loses all its meaning once somebody turns it into a business. Even if you can detach yourself from the primary market being “insecure…

This comment brought to you by the year 2012: in 10 years, you’ll wish the Mayan calendar was right!

Hell yeah, I got into him from an All Apologies cover that crossed my facebook feed in like 2017. How he’s managed to blend stuff like that with hip hop/rap is really cool, and why he’s pretty much the only new artist that I listen to as soon as he releases something.