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    Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"

    Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    03/07/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    I'd start defending the Cube's styling (love it), but I wouldn't be able to convince someone to like it. I also wouldn't want to. To each their own.


    The line about stability control pisses me off, though. I'm being nannied enough as it is, thank you very much.

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/07/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    "Racoons for everybody." says it all. Well written article. Thanks for the link, Ray. I'll have to watch for more Dan Neil. I like his style.


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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    There was one in my driveway this past weekend.


    Given the existence of the 1st gen xB, the Cube comes off like the second guy at your Halloween party in a kid's Spongebob Squarepants costume.

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    Image of Turkina Turkina
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    Oh yes, let's let the electronic nannies drive for us. Stability control fools people into ignoring the 'Oh Sh!t' zone while driving. His kid would be better off in a rain soaked empty parking lot learning how to control his car in emergency situations. Like most of us Jalops.


    After his kid is done with his first stability controlled car, what has he learned about car control? Nothing. Way to go, overprotective parent!

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/06/09

    @Turkina: Rain? Rain?! Snow. Ice. Slush.
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    Image of Turkina Turkina
    03/07/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Well yes, but I'm considering that the author probably lives near LA, and the only slick surfaces they see are when it rains, and 3 months of oil leak buildup on the roads float up.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @Turkina: True, I just enjoy giving folks from warmer climates a hard time.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    "I would never let my new driver on the road without stability control. Seriously."


    Superdickery alert!


    I'll keep my steel-and-black-plastic tank, thank you. No stability control, no traction control, no ABS, no airbags... no goddamn problem. Oh, and it's even RWD, Dan. And hippies still love it!


    Okay, hippies used to love it.

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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    03/06/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: no no, they still love your vw bug.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/06/09

    @the artist formerly known as dolo54: True, when I said "tank", I didn't specify... I guess you thought I meant "repurposed water tank".
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    Image of deftonesboy360 deftonesboy360
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    I HATE THESE ONE LINE BLURBS! Give me a real article, or a least a summery of the linked article. Dont be so lazy.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/06/09

    @deftonesboy360: Why would Ray want to copy and past someone else's work in its entirety? He put the quote he found to be funny and then provided a link to the original article by the original author on the original site that will appreciate the increase in its hitcount.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/06/09

    @engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star: past=paste.


    If I'm going to get all up in someone's shit I might as well learn me some spellings.

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    03/06/09

    @engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star: It's alright. His summery excuses your past.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    A box of fail is more like it.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/06/09

    In reply to Dan Neil Calls Nissan Cube "An Air-Hating Box Of Ugly"
    I liked the line, "Nissan Motor Co. says the design was inspired by a 'bulldog in sunglasses.' My question: Which end is wearing the sunglasses?"


    So this is their inspiration? I don't see it. Bulldogs are cuter than this boxabomination.


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/06/09

    @engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star:
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/06/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Ah, maybe that was what they were looking at. 'Splains a lot.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    Oh, I've got to ask

    Why'd they capitalize "Gay"?

    Not a proper noun...
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    02/20/09

    @Fluffy, Pushbroom: So many of the popular celebrities these days are talking about "the gays" and how they love them so (Kathy Griffin, Tori Spelling, Margaret Cho, et al.) that "gay" is being used as a noun rather than an adjective. I would call myself gay (e.g. gay person, gay male, gay activist, etc.), not "a gay". But I am old-fashioned, and I find being a noun (proper or im-) to be too restrictive and more than a bit silly.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/20/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Oh no, I agree with you. If said celebrities wish to refer to homosexuals using a noun, I just found them one, right here in this sentence. There's always the good old-fashioned "gay man", too, of course. But those have extra syllables, you see...


    But it's not even the noun/adjective issue that gets me, it's the initial capitalization.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    Guy's surname is "Berk"

    What the fuck did we expect?

    Still rather funny
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    I'm afraid that, if Brett Berk were on Obama's Auto Task Force, all he'd be asking is this: "Where's the Kennedy Room?"
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    Image of racerx racerx
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    I've got to say that's the first time I've seen the word "twink" used in a car review.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/20/09

    @racerx: I found it endlessly amusing, personally. 'Course, it would've been better if it'd been in a publication I cared about, and about a car that didn't put me to sleep.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    That website is ridiculous. There's no such thing as gays who likes cars and straight who likes cars. There's just people who likes cars.
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    Image of akn akn
    02/20/09

    @Syrax: Well, we gays DO need something else to read when Jalopnik posts a guide for guys about what kinds of girls various cars attract, and vice versa, and nothing for us.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/20/09

    @akn: Fair's fair. What's holding you back from making a start?
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    02/21/09

    @akn: okay, what do you drive?
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    I always pictured Anderson as a hardwood floor kind of guy.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    02/20/09

    @graverobber: 100% Shovel Ready!:

    "I always pictured Anderson as a hardwood floor kind of guy".



    Join his gym in Greenwich Village and chat him up in the shower, shooting the occasional downward glance. Or, better yet, drop the bar of soap and KNEEL down to retrieve it. Report back here with your findings...
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    02/20/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Join a gym? Are you nuts? That would totally upset my sedentary lifestyle.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    02/20/09

    In reply to Auto Review Line Of The Week: Vanity Fair's Stick Shift
    ewwww
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