Much obliged.

Please go back and read the article posted on Jalopnik last night at 6:45.  It will all make sense.

As long as the right people understand it, I’m fine with that.

I am lashing out a bit this morning, aren’t I?  It’s just when someone wakes up and reads the exact antithesis to what this website is supposed to be about, written by an experienced and long-time employee, it can tend to put some people like myself in a foul ass mood.

No sir. This is the smart take. This is the take that’s applauded here. You are wrong, sir. You are in the minority. No one wants fun cars.

You SURE I’m at the wrong page? Or did I LITERALLY copy and paste portions of a Jalopnik article that came out last night at 6:45 PM from Orlove?

Because my comment link won’t load (Kinja): I’m mocking a recent article by Raphael Orlove who just said the same exact thing about another exciting new vehicle with a manual transmission.

Excuse me, but the features editorial staff would disagree with you.  You don’t know what the people want.  Only features editorial staff know what the people want, and it certainly isn’t exciting vehicles with manual transmissions.

I’m pretending I work for G/O Media.

Nope. I think I’m at the right place.

VW doesn’t need to build this. In fact, they shouldn’t build this. The car is just a play to enthusiasts and isn’t about the future. What they should do instead is replace this car with a self-driving electric SUV, because that’s what “The People’s Wagon” really should be about.

Cadillac just came out with two performance sedans that are equipped with manual transmissions. One of them has a blown V8. Both RWD. Both have so far been lauded by pretty much everyone who’s come within a baseball’s throw of them as masterpieces, one of the best things that have come out of GM in the past few years,…

So they’re getting their shit together, following a similar naming pattern, and you still scoff? Do they have to take you around back and give you some cocaine before you think differently of them?

1. I’m an idiot because I understand what Cadillac is doing, and you just made the EXACT SAME POINT that I was making?

All three companies have different levels of performance for their vehicles, and all three have the same way of applying their performance branding to the mid-tier vehicles. They’re all designed to collect a premium price for those vehicles.

“It’s fine that BMW and MB do this confusing thing, but Cadillac can’t because I don’t think as highly of them.”

Puhlease. BMW has been doing it for damn near a decade.

Considering it doesn’t look like it has any pedestrian avoidance technology, I’m going to say that it’s a 2006 Chrysler death machine.

Let people make jokes without interjecting serious politics.  

6 is the carb, 15/16 is the bowl. COTA-WEED AFFILIATION CONFIRMED.