If you look at our Cars of Fast And Furious feature you'll notice a wide variety of brands, including Subaru. If we have to put our finger on one company wanting to distance itself from the competition and threatened by a cheap performer it's the maker of the WRX. According to the film's main car guy, Dennis McCarthy, Subaru was actively involved in supplying cars and excited about involvement in the film. We guess maybe they weren't as excited about sharing the screen with a sexy red turbocharged Genesis.

Or, it could have been Ford. Maybe they're just pissed Hyundai's gobbled up all of their PR folks. But who do you think cock-blocked the Genesis Coupe?

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Tomorrow, the Jalopnik crew will be dispersing to their various locales, some by car to Chicago and some by plane to New York and Houston. Also tomorrow, Detroit is expecting a whole bunch of snow. These are things that don't go well together. Having been chased by weather off the roads and out of the skies in such exotic places as Iowa City, Iowa and Arlington, Texas, we are somewhat familiar with restless nights spent in loud airports and dirty motels. However, we imagine that someone out there's had it much worse. Lay it on us.

Yeah, it's a cheap joke on our part. But then again, we aren't the one painting toys with lead or putting melamine in baby formula. Please hurry and let us know if the pen will kill us; Didorosi's cowering in the corner and Matt is refusing to write anything else until we have an answer.

As you may have noticed, we've got a gear shifter in our pants for the 2010 Taurus, but there are a lot of options in this exceedingly popular (by sales, if not by enthusiasts) category. How can a man with a hoon's heart and a middle manager's mortgage best keep his soul alive while still playing the role of buttoned-down professional?

Today's Bonus QOTD follows the almost tragic coincidence of the Detroit Lions going 0-16 the same year of the Carpocalypse. It's been a period for Detroit full of political scandal, financial failure and athletic collapse considered bad even by Michigan standards. But has anyone underperformed worse than the Lions?

Though not based out of Detroit, Kirk Kerk's Ford gamble in Detroit finally ended today with him losing an estimated $600+ million. Still, he didn't lose all his money while the Lions lost all of their games. Chrysler is suffering, but they still haven't fired their coach. So, no, few in Detroit are as bad as the Lions.

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