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Tag: Automobile Magazine

  • Michael Bay Rapes Chevrolet – Boosts Camaro Sales

    Well, ladies and gentlemen, my week has once again been ruined.  I was doing so well, what with finding out that Jeremy Clarkson plays Gran Turismo and likes the Honda NSX.

    And then I saw this.

    No, don’t doubt yourself, that is THE worst thing you have ever seen.  It’s the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers 3 Special Edition.  

    Although I have yet to confirm it, (because frankly, I don’t give a shit,) it is believed that the appearance of the Camaro in Bay’s bullshit franchise has boosted its sales beyond that of the 2010 Ford Mustang.  Which is complete cock.  The Mustang is so much more car.  Coming within an eye’s blink of coming even with a BMW M3 around Leguna Seca is a huge feat.  That event changed the public’s perspective of modern American cars.

    And you could say that for this Camaro, too.  Except Europe’s thoughts of “damn, something good actually came out of America” have now been replaced with something to the tune of “Oh my god, why did we fight for THAT?”

    So there you go, all you intelligent people had better be facepalming all the way down to your Ford dealership to pick up a real car.  Or hell, I don’t care which dealership.   Just stay away from Chevrolet and Transformers 3.

    (And don’t give me shit about you not being intelligent either.  You’re reading my blog, so obviously you are.) 

  • Although I’m not all that interested in the new 1 series M Coupe (which is supposedly the subject of this video,) Jason Cammisa makes some interesting points about the M3 (which I am interested in,) that I have wanted to say for a very long time. 

  • The New Adventures of Old GM

    As with many car nerds, I’m a frequent reader of Automobile magazine.  I believe that it is generally the most unbiased source of information on the finer points of the automotive industry, as well as many other things.  A favorite writer of mine is Ezra Dyer.  In the July 2011 issue, Ezra wrote a very interesting article entitled The New Adventures of Old GM for his monthly section “Dyer Consequences."  Although I don’t necessarily know (or care) much about the automotive industry, this article provided some interesting metaphorical insight into the situation of General Motors.

    Read it!

    (plz)

    (And now for the digression into something totally unrelated.)

    Now is it just me, or have all consumer-level auto manufacturers become basically the same in the last 5 years?  The new cars I examine/read about have subtle differences in styling, purpose, etc. but they all seem to basically head in the same direction depending on target audience.  I realize that cars have always been a commercial product, but it seems even more so now. 

    It seems to me that the attitude behind production has changed.  Rather than having the mindset of "let’s see how little we can put into this car for as much money as possible,” to “let’s see how much win we can cram into this product for as little money as possible.”

    This is a good change, no?

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