Lmao. Those sales figures show a marketshare gain of 0% since 2005 and a sales drop over the same period.

I felt like I needed a defibrillator afterward, but it felt good.

I’m just minding my own business working on an estimate then I go and open jalopnik dot com and NOW HERE I AM BLASTING FOUR HORSEMAN WISHING I COULD GO BACK TO 2013  AND STRANGLE JOHAN DE NYSCHENN

I won’t deny they have been second fiddle to Cadillac for as long as anyone can remember. But Lincoln went from being considered for the guillotine in 2011 to doing alright for itself now. I’d argue that their method of doing it could probably scaled up to Cadillac (they are already sort of doing it now, but this sort…

Funnily enough, this is the argument I find myself making to other people most of the time. My parents own an XT5(?) and it’s an acceptable Cadillac version of the standard boring crossover. My beef with that though is that we should have gotten those before they went off the reservation with the CT6 as an old school…

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/lincoln-us-sales-figures/

Of course it isn’t. That manual CTwhatever coming next year seems cool as hell. But the lineup being predominantly indiscernible filler that does not even remotely stand out from its competitors makes this new-age concept crap seem even dumber.

I mean on paper that isn’t the worst idea but I think they need to be a serious player in the luxury market for that to mean anything. Making pie-in-the-sky concepts like this just drives home the point that now they are just the village idiot of the “premium” brands.

I’m fine with the current setup if they make being a conference champion a requirement for making the playoff. At that point, you’ve effectively made the conference finals a “round” in the playoff, and the only argument your having is over which P5 conference is being left out. The lop-sided-ness of the last 4…

*deep breath as repressed 20th century GM fanboy increases*

Yeah, It would be so much more fun if the conference as a whole was competitive again. The dream is that UM, OSU, MSU, Wisco, and Penn State all find a way to match their peaks of the last 20 years, and the whole thing becomes an absolute deathmatch. That would freaking awesome, even if it meant the conference would…

No. Hell no. There was an article yesterday about how god-forsakenly expensive cars are now. For what we are paying for cars now, there had better not be a single fucking stitch out of place on the damn things.

This was a completely made up set of rules for a year of football that should have never even happened in the first place. I can’t fathom why anyone would care that they did not stick to it religiously. I’d argue it was more wrong for Notre Dame to be in the playoff despite getting absolutely waxed in a conference…

Lmao, fair point, but in the transit industry, throughput really is the only thing that matters.

It’s worse seeing this *trend* in smaller consumer spaces. You ever notice how movie theaters have begun going the route of bigger comfier seats instead of more seats? People joke about the term “late-stage capitalism”, but I genuinely think the death-rattle for this whole system is companies figuring out there is no…

Once interest rates go back up again, yes.

1st Gear:

This is good validation for my longstanding belief that the people who make Stuff know a helluva lot more than people who take a bunch of Stuff and put it together and sell it.

hell yeah baby now we’re talking