From Yahoo's featured stories box:
Awwwww... Such a shame. I feel so broken up about the news, honest. In fact, let me dig out an appropriate funeral dirge for this somber occasion...
Dave "Baby" Cortez - The Happy Organ (from The Happy Organ, 1959) - The #1 hit that helped convince scores of musicians to start twiddling with their organs.
(Seriously, though, my sense of schadenfreude doesn't extend to the poor souls getting shafted due to plant closures because the captains of fucking industry couldn't figure out the simple calculus that "economic downturn + soaring gas prices = retool the production lines towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles." Then again, the suits never feel the pain, so there's no motivation to think proactively.)
Friday, June 06, 2008
spit on your grave
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Strangely the vogue for ridiculous petrol gulping vehicles continues unabated this side of the Atlantic. What price fashion and keeping up with the Jones's, eh? Strangely my sympathy only extends as far as hoping that their cash flow is bled dry.
I "loved" the idea they had a year or so ago, of making the HUMMER in a smaller size.
Yeah... it was STILL bigger than any car or van out there, but it was a "mini" Hummer.
That way, they could squeeze more cash out of that albatross.
That struck me as one of the all-time most corporately irresponsible cash-grabs in quite a while.
"Hmmm... we KNOW that there are many people who WANT the Hummer..."
"RIGHT! It's so COOL to have one!"
"...but they might be afraid of it's size or don't have the cash for it."
"Hey! I know, let's make a smaller version. It's exactly the same, but "mini"!"
"BRILLIANT!"
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And, ridiculously enough, I saw a few of the big Hummvees driving around just a few weeks ago.
Obviously, SOME people just have money they like throwing away, and if the world has to die for their vanity...oh well.
gah!
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PTOR
ooops.
Didn't meant to be "anonymous".
Sorry.
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PTOR
"That struck me as one of the all-time most corporately irresponsible cash-grabs in quite a while."
Nah, that would be the hybrid Chevy Tahoe.
I saw an article where a person was complaining about the $3000 'premium' on the hybrid version. (Might have been a similar huge gas-guzzling luxury SUV.)
If you're paying $50,000 for an SUV, you're already putting half your money into the profit margin, so it hardly makes sense to quibble over $3k.
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