We got a Switch this year too, and though I do like it, I will agree with you about the lack of new titles and the insane price of accessories. The JoyCons really are a rip off and it is absurd that the most recent Mario Kart game is seven years old. I get that it still sells, but c’mon already. It’s well past time…

Cuomo is a scumbag who needs to go, but I don’t think either of those cars are egregiously boring boomer cars. The GTO is a pretty cool car. 1975 is a shitty year for the Corvette, though.

It is exactly this attitude that helps to explain why Harley is failing. They still refuse to acknowledge that the product is the reason no one under 50 is buying one. 

Mark Martin was my favourite driver for years growing up. Then, I followed him on Twitter. It was a real “don’t meet your heroes” kind of moment. Guy is kind of a prick. 

This has become so barely an enthusiast website it isn’t even funny anymore. I give it another 6 months before its just an advertising platform for charging cables and low rolling resistance tires. 

Because there is only so many options you can turn on. It’s not like someone buying Sharkcards in GTA 5, where you can buy them one after the other

This honestly kinda tracks with my own experience. I know people who are brand loyal to GM, Ford, Dodge, and Toyota, but no one seems as dyed in the wool as the Chevy guys. They won’t even look at or consider ANYTHING else, no matter what. 

True, but from what I’ve read microtransactions work for them because of the small % of ‘whales’ who spend insane amounts on it. The same principle doesn’t apply for a car

Which is why it is surprising to me that manufactures are trying to plow ahead with it given it has already kinda failed for BMW. This feels like it might blow up in their faces like it did for EA making people pay for everything in game separately. 

I really can’t wait for this whole stupid idea of installing all the options on a car in advance and making people pay a subscription to use them to backfire on automakers. How long do we think it will take before someone comes up with a cheap, easy hack that lets you use all of them for free? 

Exactly. The people responsible for the failure will come out of this with millions of dollars stuffed in their pockets and a plum chance to go fuck up another company in a couple years

Not sure TBH. I always found them to ride fine for what they were, just very floaty. 

It’s almost as if the Pathfinder clone (QX60) having a name one letter different from the sports coupe (Q60) is confusing to consumers!

Not to mention they’ve already been quietly closing dealerships because their dealer network is too bloated for a brand that sells less vehicles than Land Rover does (not even including Jaguar). It would be a great opportunity for an upstart brand to get a brick and mortar foothold though.

Haha, sort of. The big difference is that when customers found out the car had Nissan guts they’d just lose interest and leave.

I vividly remember a co-worker dunking on the brand during a training session and the contracted trainer JOINING IN on dunking on Infiniti before getting mad about it because my co-worker was so ruthless. It was pretty funny TBH.

As someone who sold Infinitis for quite a while, we all kinda knew this car was never going to happen. Infiniti couldn’t even be bothered to update its best selling SUVs, there was no chance they were going to come out with a high performance version of the slow selling coupe.

They’re absolutely horrible to use though. One of the least ergonomic designs in the car industry right now IMO. I sold them for a few years and still couldn’t reliably use the screen and buttons properly. 

“This pay plan will actually make you more money!”

It sure does. Yes, sorry, meant millions not billions. But I’m guessing the new one will be more complicated than the LLV.