I may be generalizing but as a truck owner I enjoy hunting. As a company named an animal people hunt why not give away a free Savage trophy hunter rifle with every purchase of a Ram truck. So the owners can go kill all the big horns in the Rockies!!!!

Why Can't Saab Survive?

Thanks but no thanks. I will take mine with a fire breathing 427 and to hell with the babies and the trees and the planet.

LIPSTICK!

Maybe they wanted to test them on hundreds of miles of straight, flat roads with nothing to see but dirt for hours with the hope of reaching Wyoming soon being the only thing keeping you going?

Sure is a lot of hype over a truck-thingy that's NOT the Troller T4 (aka Ford Bronco)...but that ain't any of my business.

I guess I have two questions for you, the reader — does it finally look like America is ready for Italian cars, and (perhaps more critically) are Italian brands good enough to make big sales here in the US?

Well, first of all, +1 for the Space Mutiny reference. Now I'm convinced all of Bigland's speeches to his team involve him showing off his burly arms and yelling "NOW LET'S GET OUT THERE AND KICK SOME ASS!!!!"

I think they can do quite well. The Fiat 500 is brilliant IMHO, and the Alfa 4C is a strong option for those who don't quite want an Elise or the more ubiquitous Cayman.

we're running direct drive this morning

I still submit that Italian cars in the US are a secret ploy by VAG and Mercedes to pay Italy to push unreliable cars on us in order to make their own offerings look better in comparison. Wouldn't be the first time the Germans made the Italians do their dirty work.

The Morning Shift: CVT Edition

So I've been trying to get "followed" by Jalopnik since this new "approval" system came out... and crap like this makes it through. Seems legit.

Looks like the pending comment process is working beautifully.

One does not simply read Gawker Media sites for content.

It's an auto, sadly.

Shifting with your left hand must seem very strange.

A female deer painted in Sam Posey livery?