I agree. Excellent piece. I mistakenly thought you were sincere in your complaints about the intersection of auto awesomeness and wealth, which is kinda part of the deal.

Yeah, why does Jalopnik waste time with stuff like this? They need to write more articles about lawnmower racing and other things that poor and unemployed people (presumably) enjoy. The lamer and more egalitarian the record broken, the more I'm interested!

I think for most people, who don't particularly care about cars or the driving experience, Prius or Camry probably is the right answer. They want something reasonably priced, reliable, and not likely to embarass them. Now if a person asks for an opinion and mentions anything to do with the driving experience and…

I feel like MFT reliability should be broken out separately from core car function reliability. Trust me, I understand the pain users have (Ford Sync owner here), but the shitty voice control has nothing to do with getting me from A to B.

In your example, Cadillac has entered into a contract with a deal and assigned them a license to resell their product which stipulates they won't compete with the licensee. It's not sharing profit, it's taking a cut in profit per transaction on the hope that total revenue will be greater because outside parties…

Who is arguing Tesla should break the law? Tesla wants to *change* the law, which is how the system works.

The dealer laws were put in place to protect franchises from having to compete against manufacturer-owned dealerships. If they could have done that, they would have poached the most favorable markets and undercut their franchisees, who are their customers. That is what the law is "supposed to do".

The Corvette's strength in recent years has been that it is an amazing performer...for the price. But adding this much to the price puts the buy in range of other cars that they might prefer for their $100k. This is sort of the opposite of "You can get x V6 Mustangs for that price!". You can get a GTR or a (base)…

Capitalism, while it does seek to generate profits, is more narrowly defined than just that. People have marked goods up since time immemorial, but capitalism as such didn't really arise until the birth of the Dutch capital markets in the 17th century. The car dealers here are just merchants and don't really have a…

This just makes an installer, but you can use the resulting USB installer to put a bootable Mavericks on a different USB drive if you want to check it out. Performance will be limited by the speed of your USB drive, however.

But none of this is a secret. Users choose to play the game and know the consequences of the rules.

Japanese pizza is weird, but pretty good. Chinese food in Japan...yeah, they don't get that at all.

No, it's actually a clever design choice. Do you risk losing something "valuable" entirely for the chance to increase its value? If you don't want the risk, don't try. If the game didn't present risks the only way to enhance would be through grinding. It's the same deal that is offered for XP in MMOs: you want to…

Pixar was started by George Lucas. I think it may have originally been an ILM subsidiary. In any case, when Steve Jobs bought it, the company was just selling 3D tools and didn't have any to plans to do anything creative internally.

Um, all multiplayer has always required a connection.

I've got kids 8 and 3 and we have both Disney Infinity and Skylanders Giants. There are details to recommend one or the other to you for gameplay, but the killer difference is that Disney Infinity has split screen and Skylanders shares the screen, requiring a level of cooperation that is just about impossible from a 3…

My kids are 8 and 3 years old. They both love Skylanders and it'll be a long time before I let either of them near CoD or GTA. So there's plenty of space in the market for kid-appropriate games.

Diplomacy is Risk with all of the backstabbing and none of the randomness of dice rolls. EVERYTHING is determined by the lies you just told your heretofore allies. They know they weren't beaten by fate. It really is the worst. I love it.

I may be dating myself, but once upon a time, the discerning collegian spelled it "choad".

I am not a Kinect-hater, though I do feel it disappoints. I'm perfectly happy to have it included with the Xbox One. That said, there doesn't seem to be much market appetite for it and negative writeups like this one will quickly translate into more buyers choosing the PS4. This might be a good opportunity for…