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Welcome back to the return of “While You Were Sleeping”, an overnight digest of various news items that didn’t make the cut on TTAC’s homepage.
Think tank click bait, Mansell hawking Mitsubishis and leather engine covers. 2015 is off to a wacky start, but at least you don’t have to waste your time reading individual articles about it.
- Even think tanks aren’t above click bait: We see the charge of “click bait” leveled at us on occasion – typically when a fan boy’s favorite brand is maligned. But this dubious claim by Navigant Research is a prime example of click bait; making ridiculous, misleading claims in the headline, only to pull a “bait and switch” in the body of an article. If you clicked on their press release, you’d expect to see a story about how “Conventional Gasoline Models are Expected to Represent Less Than Half of Vehicles Sold Worldwide by 2017“. But according to Navigant, “conventional gasoline” means “naturally aspirated”. So, even a turbo engine is outside that definition. Who knew that research funding was falling faster than CPM rates?
- Mansell’s Mitsus: Former F1 Champ Nigel Mansell is apparently hawking Mitsubishis on the British island of Jersey. The new showroom, run by the ex-racer and his son Leo out of an old Art Deco movie theater, made the move from used vehicles to new Mitsubishis. Mansell, who once owned a Ferrari dealership, drives an Outlander PHEV himself. The plug-in CUV has been a major hit in Europe, but Jersey does not offer the same incentives as the rest of the continent. Instead, the L200 pickup is said to be a popular choice.
- And they ensure an adolescence of involuntary celibacy as well!: Hidden within this story on the danger of teenage drivers in older cars is a list of sub-$6,000 cars that also offer a adequate crash-worthiness. Young parents will be delighted to know that the choices, like the Hyundai Azera, Kia Sedona and Suzuki Grand Vitara, come with the added bonus of preventing teenage pregnancy or venereal disease.
- And in unrelated news, I’m wasting my time on this earth: Racing driver Franck Montagny tests positive for cocaine, admits using, may lose racing license. Better to burn out than fade away and all that…
- Or would you prefer lace?: BMW will apparently have a leather engine cover for the next-gen 7-Series.
9 Comments on “While You Were Sleeping: January 5th, 2015...”
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“Or would you prefer lace?: BMW will apparently have a leather engine cover for the next-gen 7-Series.”
It’ll be part of a $20K package that includes whale penis foreskin interior and gold-plated wheels, you know how BMW gets you on the options
Hey, don’t knock it till you try it.
I Nigel Mansell, most beloved of the recent British Racing Drivers, owns his own super yacht, private jet, has a net worth of $80M and opens a Mitsu dealership on his adopted island. One has to conjecture that this was the only dealership available for the taking on the island. Unless he wanted to open another Ferrari dealership in Saint Helier and chase after the two Ferrari owners on the island. I would have hoped he would have used his considerable talents the way Jack Brabham did.
Those listed models that prevent teenage pregnancy aren’t the only ones. ALL automakers have been in a jihad against back seat nookie for some time now. The glory days of becoming one with your honey bunny on the overstuffed sofa of a malaise-era Dodge Monaco or Chevy Caprice back seat are a fading memory.
If I could take my HS GF to poundtown in a Geo Prizm and a tired Integra, kids these days have no excuse. An Azera? That’s like a rolling Motel 6.
If I remember correctly teenagers could get it on in a MG Midget, nothing today’s cars can do will stop that
“We see the charge of “click bait” leveled at us on occasion – typically when a fan boy’s favorite brand is maligned.”
If I remember back fondly, the charge of click-bait historically were leveled in the hey-day of ’08 and the world ending GM-Chrysler bailout. Before that it was directed to the political with Oldsmobubble’s demise and the rise of the Uber-SUV and Dodge Mega-RAM.
“BMW will apparently have a leather engine cover for the next-gen 7-Series.”
Because nothing says luxury like the smell of burning leather.
Do the lessees even know how to open the hood?