I looked it up, despite being way more expensive the CR-V is selling TEN TIMES the amount of that Fit is in the States. No way would any business continue selling a car like that with such comparatively lower volume. 

I realize what you’re asking is mostly rhetorical, but clearly, the answer is, more than that. I presume as low budget market segments that depend on volume, 13k a year isn’t enough if they’re selling way more CR-Vs.

Some people want to buy new. This is for people who haven’t put a lot of thought into it but somehow “know what they want.” *They don’t really, they just think so. 

I now have to figure out, with the Yaris and Fit both dead in the States, what to recommend to people who don’t have a lot of money or understanding of how to take care of a car.

Fuck the consumer base, not Honda. If we were buying them they’d keep making them. I think it’s more notable that they were stubborn enough to keep building Accord manuals on a 1% uptake rate. The C7 vette manual rate was almost 20 times that and GM killed that transmission anyway.

You would not believe (or maybe you would) how many arguments other Kotaku commenters laid into me when I said I respected how they reacted to their initial release fuck up.

I remember reading about and seeing educational TV in school about Biosphere 2. As I recall I felt disappointed when someone had an injury in it and broke the seal to have it looked at. Also, I think it was too small to balance its ecosystem properly but I thought it was a solid good faith effort, despite its warts.

Be…

Occasionally, it’s another car of a different formula that results in the same amount of refinement, although I could be splitting hairs here. 

Wrong, illiterate.

You know what, I really thought you wanted a discussion there for a second and now I realize that you’re just picking and choosing pieces of what I’m responding to critique no matter what I say. Go ahead, I’m done here. I don’t think you even read it. Serves me right for thinking I could have a discussion online.…

I don’t like liars at all, especially liars that get people innocent of the specific crime in trouble.

I’m actually trying to address your original point! Your question was extraordinarily vague and broad, which is why I asked for a concrete example.

This wasn’t the point of my question, but you actually haven’t. Not only has Franken been “forgiven” by a lot of people, there are a lot of people, very influential people, who think there is nothing to forgive!

then what is even the point of this conversation?

I googled her just to be sure - She’s still around - half hearted apologies aside (another commonality with this guy up top) - but it was noted that she has a history of this stuff, as so many people like her do. It kind of tanked her career but she’s slowly pushing her way back into the industry now that she is out…

Whuf. I went to bed and woke up to 20 notifications about this one topic. Well, take a look at Al Franken. His Senate career was obliterated after he was accused of assault. I’m not going to say anything about the circumstances of the assault himself or whether or not he deserved to resign. I don’t like sexual…

A legitimate money-or-action-where-your-mouth-is atonement I would probably take very seriously. Obviously, that didn’t happen here. Public shame at bad behaviour typically is not a self-awakening.

It certainly did sound empty and bullshitty. I don’t expect this guy to really receive much sympathy for how he acted. I was just curious as to how we should approach people with genuine apologies and penitence, because I care about how we treat those people far more.

Very true. Little if no ownership at all, just a kneejerk backtrack. 

If your hideout supplies Muddy Buddies I support this 100%