And then people like yourself would take to the blogosphere with complaints about how Ferrari was just following trends set by other companies.

Yeah, the only question is whether a stockholder or a government regulator will be the one to shoot him.

Yes, the same way the availability of short skirts and high heels leads directly to rape.

There are some serious questions here. 1) Couldn’t they afford hats that fit? 2) Why is the blond girl wearing two watches?

And they said Umberto Eco was dead

True, you’re not wrong about how we arguably should have kept our noses out of it. But that’s not how it went down, and once we were involved, we arguably had the responsibility to act in a way that would save the most innocent lives in the long run.

A point worth making: if Truman had allowed MacArthur to nuke the living shit out of Pyongyang in the Korean war, the net savings in lives would have run into the millions by now.

Well, no, rabbit pellets don’t stink. Diesels do.

Eggs-actly. What am I supposed to do about something 10 feet in front of the car?

No kidding. That’s 911S money.

[citation needed]

As the story goes, the Targa was designed because Porsche was worried that ragtops would be outlawed altogether. It wasn’t an unreasonable fear, given the magnitude and frequency at which draconian new auto regulations were being issued in the US at the time.

It’s worth eleven grand. Eleven. Thousand. Dollars. Not even enough to get you a Nissan Versa. With that number in mind, I suspect I don’t need to explain again why my $60,000 wouldn’t go to a new car.

Problem: Large asteroid is about to collide with Earth

Translation: I’ve made terrible decisions in life

The Falcon looks bigger because designers in the 1960s still understood how to do attractive proportions.

I thought that was James Brown and Lionel Richie, or somebody.

Pro tip: Journalists don’t buy used Porsches to maximize the number of amusing articles they can write about how often the car turns on its “Check Engine” light, breaks down, catches on fire, or otherwise leaves them stranded at the side of the road.

Sounds like you have a dog in the fight. I don’t, so we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Musk: “Excuse me, I can’t hear you over the sound of this extremely loud ROCKET engine I’m testing.”