If enough people buy it, it’s not a “miscue” even if it’s an abomination. Polaris exists to sell powersports equipment and motorcycles to make money for their shareholders. The fact that a market exists for bikes like these is not a disparagement on The Motor Company or Polaris (but it says a lot about 21st Century…
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Did I make any comparison (or for that matter, distinction) between they guy who buys this kind of rococo toy and anybody else? I don’t recall doing so. And there’s no question that there is a market for this kind of image-bolstering, whether with motorcycles, fabulous cars, or boats (big boats are God’s way of…
If your idea of “riding” is a jaunt down to the local Burgers and Brews for the weekly “Bike Night,” I’d call that posing. And you nailed that profile in the article:
Complete posers, it sounds like.
Harley dealers and the denizens of their lifestyle centers never had faith in the “future’” to the extent it represented anything other than paunchy old men wearing bandannas and reliving imagined lives on obese, underpowered throwback bikes. They didn’t like the “future” when it was called Aermacchi. They didn’t…
Reverse?
“That steel chassis, which was introduced in 1936, is still being used today.”
How much does the removal of four doors change the structural rigidity of the car?
That re-body makes my eyes bleed. Someone took a NART Spyder and turned it into a Supra litterbox. CP
Well! It’s about time ladies sat down and crossed their tanned and toned legs who represent the people who deserve to be real Americans!
It is difficult to find sympathy for an organization which has embraced corruption as its ethos, or for elected officials who operate in an atmosphere of birthright ans entitlement, but as a retired child of a 50s and 60s union household (and a proud but withdrawn member of the Amalgamated Grocery and Meatcutters…
How did you know I’m sooo funny? Have you been talking to the other gals?
“But motorcycles are also expensive, dangerous, too powerful,”
1st Gear: Nissan thinks maybe it should make good cars
The Fiero was GM’s X1/9. By 1988, it was evolving into a Dino. If GM (as many Fieroisti have done) had allowed it to live into a time when you could have it with a Northstar V8, it would have really evolved into a real lampoon of a Ferrari.
I did a quick Google search yesterday, to no avail. Granted, I did not invest much time thereon. I see no evidence that Petersen ever digitized SCG content.
I recall a Sports Car Graphic story in the late 60s about very quick cross-country dash in a Sunbeam Imp. I don’t know the beginning and end points.
Sadly, Hyundai seems to be correct.
How do you say chutzpah in Hoosier?
Oh Nooooooooooooes!