@TouchMyMonkey: That's sort of cool, like it'd desert camo.

So essentially, your service randomly stops working, his service randomly stops working, seemingly at different times.

@AgentW: Your comment makes me think you haven't been paying very close attention. There has been a lot of hate directed towards GT5 for no clear reason, and a lot of it is coming from Forza fanboys. It shows up in all comments to these things. There have been youtube videos dedicated to elaborate stunts showing how…

Grandpa needs a car too.

I wonder how much of this is due to boring things like lead times. Assange might be more important in the long term, but he didn't really get worldwide recognition until late in the year. Possibly after votes had been tallied and plans had been made.

@tkuhl87: I was shopping in the entry level market segment recently, and it's actually very rare that you don't have an aux port at a minimum. GM's corporate head unit has one, Ford has Sync, I believe the Dodge Caliber has an input in the console - though I hated that car so I didn't look closely.

@dufus: Considering the way legislation is going, when the phone rings you're stuck with speakerphone to answer it anyway, lest you want a visit from your local constabulary.

There's a new car on the market without, at a bare minimum, an aux plug? Madness.

@robshapiro002: The thing with HIV meds is that if you aren't consistent in managing it, you're going to die young. It's not something you can go back to, if you lose a customer they're lost, and there goes your income. Not something that the company wants

Has it reached the point where it's so over the top and ridiculous it actually becomes watchable again?

@duurtlang: Of course they would laugh at that statement, I'm exaggerating for comic effect, based on national and brand stereotypes. Partially to rile up people who have, say, the model designation of an old Citroen as their display pic, partially because those are really the only competition that could be considered…

@duurtlang: Of course, it's a hatchback aimed at the heart of the market without anything to prove, they're not going to reinvent the wheel. Still, it's better looking than the old one and to say that's too beige is ignoring that it's really one of the best looking mass market hatchbacks which probably won't start on…

@duurtlang: That's more beige than this?

@robshapiro002: Don't misunderstand, I wasn't saying that HIV meds weren't expensive, and I wasn't saying that they're not something that essentially makes the sufferer captive to the seller.

@tonyola: True, but as I said, the only time that happened was a fuel crisis. Note how when fuel crises stopped happening, suddenly everyone gained weight again. You can bet that if (when?) there's another fuel crisis, cars are going to shed pounds.

@BootHillBossanova: Oh please, Big Pharma isn't raking in billions on AIDS drugs. They're not going to clubs and stealing everyone's condoms, they're not going to drug users and suggesting that needle sharing is totally the cool thing to do.

@Flathead Smith and the Screaming Straight Pipes: Now that's going to be hard to park.

This is nothing new. Longer, lower, wider was the mantra since the 1950s, and the only time cars got smaller was during a gas crisis, though with the popularity of SUVs and CUVs longer, higher wider seems to be the new mantra. Enthusiasts want small and light, but salesmen want big and long, because that lets them say…

@nae: Real men don't need a kit either.

@Baby Benz needs a '66 Imperial convertible to keep it company: It's Paris Hilton, regular whore is wholly appropriate.