I completely disagree with your statement. It is only the relative few performance-oriented drivers who wear tires fastest due to hard cornering; for most people (and all cars), it is the reasons I listed.

“Higher end vehicles”? You being serious? The GLS chews up tires because it is incredibly heavy. The AMG version makes more power/torque, which also abuses tires more. While there is a correlation between the weight of a car and it’s price this isn’t the cause. My wife’s Q5's tires were about 50% when we returned the…

The store was all out of 710 fluid.

I get that you or I don’t want to be pandered to. But there is a real and effective psychology behind this:

The “real people, not actors” part is the whole pitch to the commercial. Anyone can pay actors to act impressed about a product, but to show non-actors being impressed is supposed to carry more weight and mean more. So it is very important whether the ad shows the people as “acting” or reacting.

Haha. This would be great.

Interviewer: “Sir, you just left your local Chevy store with your new Malibu. How do you feel?”

To be fair, this ad says nothing of the “real people, not actors” crap; these folks could be paid actors.

As an owner of a convertible, I can confirm the farmer’s tan is a constant issue.

Really? I’d think that’s more of a one-n-done ride. She looks like she’s been ridden hard and put away wet too many times.

I don’t get it, I thought this car sold itself. The people who would buy a $36k Civic already know this one exists; a demo model won’t generate any other sales.

Interesting. I’ll have to look this episode up later. I wonder, though, if they had a statistically significant sample size to really get meaningful data. So much of that show was anecdotal entertainment that we took as scientific certainty.

Cal is in the East Bay. Unless you mean CSU East Bay (Hayward), but they don’t have a football team.

For the same reason you’re a fan of the Raiders, or Athletics, or Sharks: they’re your local team. Even still, a manager in my company is a big fan of college football and roots for teams of schools he’s never attended, in parts of the country he’s never lived.

Good points, but the buyer will put fewer than 100 miles a week on this purchase, so visibility isn’t as big a concern as it would be in a daily commute.

wow did they not teach shortening links at Berkeley?

You know you’re going to get a lot of hate for suggesting he’s going to get a lot of hate for suggesting the other guy is going to get a lot of hate for posting a GM, right?

I’d rather have a GC Trailhawk than a Challenger Hellcat. If I’m going to have a huge, 4500 pound, 707 HP vehicle, I might as well get the utility of an SUV.

I know you’re being pedantic- a key characteristic of any good online troll. But you’re ignoring the fact that the “claim” of no god wouldn’t exist if not to refute the claim of a god. People aren’t claiming there are no 100 legged squids, purple elephant dicks, etc, because no one made the claim of their existence in…

The only benefit I see to your argument is to try to legitimize the idea of there being a god or even the remote possibility of a god. “You can’t say for certain he doesn’t exist and if you do, you’re basing that on no more proof than my claim that he does.” But the burden of proof is on the person making the claim…