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It was in the trailer, leading me to think it isn't exclusive. It's just something you get immediately rather than having to find.

Meh.

So... Epic hosts this themselves on YouTube, and AOL then downloads it and hosts it themselves behind a 30 second ad that has no impact on the demographic of this site?


Brilliant!

Yup.

I despise the Autoblog gallery. It's overly complicated, always quite slow, and the algorithm for shrinking pictures pixelates them heavily - the default smaller size is always quite jagged.

At least we got the "back to the post" link a few years back. That always killed me.

I don't think your comparisons are great. People don't know the difference between a four cylinder and a V6 because it varies so much. People don't know the difference between front wheel drive and rear wheel drive because, to most, it only matters in the snow.

People really only bother learning what matters to them, and thus far nothing about hybrids has much mattered. We keep seeing reports about gas needing to be $5+ per gallon in order for a hybrid to make economic sense, ultimately meaning hybrids won't really impact the wallet. As a result, hybrids are just expensive options and people don't care. The exception to that $5+ per gallon rule tends to be the extremely ugly hybrids the average person wouldn't consider driving, anyway.

Once hybrids become more attractive economically, either due to lower prices or more expensive gas, then you'll find the public becoming experts. Until then, though, none care enough to learn. Why should they?

People only learn things that are important to them, and as of this point hybrids aren't important. Whether they ever will be, or whether they get surpassed by something else, remains to be seen. The public will be experts on something other than internal combustion engines soon.

Devlish,

I did not say I buy the car to attract girls, I said the girls I look to attract are ones that prefer German over Ford. There's a difference there.

Yup. If I were looking to spend M3/C63 money today then no Mustang would sway me. Too gaudy. Too childish. I'd feel like a high school kid or a 40 year old overcompensating. Yes, I know, many think BMWs and MBs are overcompensation. It's a difference of opinion, and people tend to be one camp or the other. For those that I associate with, and the girls I look to attract, the BMW/MB is where I want to be.

However, I will say that the Boss 302 is probably enough to sway me from the C350/328 I'd been considering. From a 335? I don't know. There's also the issue of acquiring a Boss 302; I'm not sure how easy that'll be. But man, interior issues aside that's one hell of a beast. Then again, it snows here, and P-Zeros won't be fun to replace.

Can we please stop comparing the M3 and the Mustang?

One is a pony car. One is a luxury car. You'd expect one to be cheaper and likely faster at the track. This should not be a surprise.

But there shouldn't be much overlap in buyers, either. I'd much rather an M3 or a C63 than a Mustang. To me Mustangs look like the type of car a teenager should be driving, not an adult man. I have a ton of respect for the thing but I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I'm only 30 but I think I'm at least 5 years past an age that's Mustang appropriate.

People either feel this way, and look at the M3, or they disagree that the Mustang looks inappropriately young, and they look at that.

The two leads were supposed to be likable and sympathetic, from what I gather, with them as the straight men to the insane people around them.

But I found them neither likable nor sympathetic.
That doesn't bode well for the series.

I still don't get the critical acclaim for The Walking Dead.

The acting tended to be poor.
The characters were horribly boring.
The dialogue tended to be garbage.
The plots varied between insanely dull and insanely ham-fisted.
And any opportunity to actually be interesting were completely skipped over.

Rather than be a tormented man losing grip with reality Shane is a sex-offending villain.
Rather than dealing with Shane slowly becoming untrustworthy we're given dialogue from a wife-beater.
Rather than do anything with zombies we're given lame dialogue at the camp.


And no story arc. No point A to point B. Bland people having bland conversation in a camp then driving to a compound with no story arc. No character arcs. No growth. No decay. No change. Nothing. Just terrible dialogue, terrible characters, and Lori giving a wooden stare.

Bah, it pisses me off so much because it would have been so easy to make a compelling zombie show. Focus on the interesting characters, give them enough time to actually be interesting, and for the love of god have the occasional zombie (something often missing.) Trimming away the terrible characters no one cared about and sticking tightly on Lori, Shane and Rick, with a side of Glen, Redneck and Gilliganhat, would have worked well. Start the plot of Shane going nuts and have it advance every week. End with something happening there. Arc!

Even the choice to show Shane's reason for leaving Rick behind was poorly timed. By then we'd already seen Shane aim his gun at Rick and were inches from seeing him try to rape Lori. I get that they were trying to do a juxtaposition there but Shane was never really set up as anything but a villain. We have not seen him as anything else post-apocalypse. If they wanted us to have sympathy for him they could have shown that earlier. Instead they reveal it when it's already easy to hate Shane and see where that plot is going.
Such a waste.

It's sleek, but the Explorer was always tough, not sleek. This doesn't look tough to me.

It sounds like it doesn't ride tough, either, which is actually great. It sounds like a fantastic vehicle to drive, and like it can be tough, it just doesn't feel that way on pavement.



I think keeping the Explorer name is smart. Taurus I was against, I think that name is tarnished by terrible cars. Explorer had the Firestone incidents, but I think that tarnished Firestone, not Explorer. In fact, I thought it was the MPG rebellion that had sunk the Explorer. Overall I still think the name has power and draw, again unlike the uphill battle Taurus has to face.