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Esquire And Nate Silver Claim Car Culture's Dying
Detroit, 5:44 PM
Sat Dec 5
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05/08/09
It's all over the place. While his stats analysis is interesting, and he makes some interesting, if poorly thought out, conclusions, he can't hide his personal vitriol of American stereotypes and that ruins the integrity of his piece.
Other than his calculations, there is little news here. The economy sucks, people are losing their jobs and homes, nobody has excess cash to spend on driving all over town shopping and eating. In further news, water is wet. Thanks, Nate, back to you in the studio.
It's like he had all these random thoughts but needed some stats to connect them enough to get his check from Esquire. This is what happens when your publication relies on freelancers. See Slate, Details, Maxim, et al.
It's an interesting topic but written by someone pretty clueless and too consumed with his hate of a different American culture. Stereotypically typical. I won't be subscribing to Mr. Silver's newsletter.
05/08/09
This morning, approximately 13 hours later, it was $2.18.
I think that sort of thing is going to change all but the hardest core car nuts.
Ultimately, society is changing. Oil (well, cheap oil) is getting harder and harder to come by. It doesn't really matter if it really is getting harder to come by or if the oil industry is just getting better (or more ruthless) in manipulating it, the bottom line remains the same.
As soon and I mean the minute this economy begins to turn around, gas will be $4 a gallon again. And when people realize $4 a gallon isn't a temporary thing and it's not the future, but simply the baseline of the future, it will fundamentally change peoples habits.
I believe the next 25 years will see a monumental shift in the view of the automobile by the general citizenry.
I could be wrong, I have been before. I said McCain was gonna' win, so what do I know?
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However, had Megan herself penned this, we'd probably have a lot more "Hey, she makes good point" reactions ;)
05/08/09
Car culture isn't so much "dying" as it's been stabbed in the back and bled out by Domestic manufacturers.
We went to Subaru and Honda, and there we will stay, probably for ever at this point. Because none of the idiots at GM, Ford or Chrysler have any clue what the "tuner" segment is really about these days.
Out of touch, those ones are.
05/08/09
*I just realized that the picture next to your name is an Impreza. It was so stretched I though it was a Kei car.
05/08/09
I'm sorry, who is Artisan Performance, again? This is the second time you've mentioned them.
Other than doing what pretty much every mod shop does (body kits, wheels and tires, turbo upgrades, etc) they don't seem all that impressive. I mean, they have six dealers nationwide. They're a far cry from Roush Performance and Lingenfelter who have decades of advanced technology development under their belts.
Please, if you're going to make some goofball comment about expensive mods, try to make some sense so we can attempt to understand your point.
05/08/09
Hi, I'm Bubba, I hope your pathetic, Esquire writing Ass gets on a train. It will leave me more room to drive my old rusty gas guzzling American cars. As for the foreign cars you want me in. Sorry, they aren't building anything I am interested in. My Mullet only matches my Camaro thank you very much.
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One other thing, I'm an unashamed Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Pinko/Fake American/insert your perjorative term here...who likes mustard on his cheeseburgers....and I L-U-V LOVE cars! Take THAT, stupid stereotype!
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