You don’t get it, man! They’re marketers. They live to be intrusive. And the folk making this garbage are probably millenials themselves, so not only are they intrusive, they also are arrogant, self aggrandizing, and quite tech savvy.

I’d consider a Chevy if and only if they get rid of that horrendously ugly yellow badge of dishonor they slap on them. I don’t care if they suddenly became the best built cars in the world overnight, I won’t pay money to have that badge.

For example the Toyota Prime goes less EV miles than the old Volt and yet people are buying the snot out of them.

Try again. How about this: “Car that’s available for under twenty grand outsells car that costs nearly 40 grand in same market niche” :-D

Clever yes ... useful though? I think not.

What I feared was that Toyota would build us a ridiculously stylized, plasticized, and overtly twee suburban soft-roader with overly complicated and unrealistic ‘features’ that add nothing to it’s functionality but look kewl in all the pix.

... because...? the cloud is see thru? why? cloud servers are probably several times more secure than your dell hard drive, dude.

SUVs ruined the sports coupe market. Marketers think that

seems like it’s just making someone a millionaire overnight...

While trying to excuse the undeniably deleterious results of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas is in poor taste, especially in the eyes of the descendants of the people conquered, converted, or enslaved, the knee jerk reaction to the ‘Nazi comparison’ is way way WAY hella off target.

The idea of Trump’s image never entered my mind, but I felt that the US position in regard to Syria was utter shit since Obama’s “red line” bluff was called.

derp

If any branch can figure out a way to get something out-dated, out-classed, and worn-out to still function in a combat setting, it’d be the Marines.

the military, in general, has lowered standards and expectations for each successive iteration of a training school. Maybe not for the MOS/Job Skills portions, but for basic soldiering, definitely

Goddamit ... which finger is the index finger? First finger? Then which one is the pointer finger? Why aren’t these goddamned things labeled?!?

despite the invocation of divine wisdom, has not yet lifted a ban on Syrian refugees.

school has also not explained which rules anyone on the cheerleading team is supposed to have broken

Okay. But. Where in Syria are these missiles going to land? On more innocent people? Or do we actually have a plan....?

“Construction: Canvas rather than fused” .. that entire sentence (fragment) makes absolutely NO sense to me. What on god’s green earth could that possibly mean? Seeing as how “canvas” when a noun rather than a verb is a TYPE of fabric, and “fused” being a method of connecting two or more objects to each other ...

Them Russkies been doin the weirdy contra-rotating helicapopter thing for a while as well: