Jason Torchinsky is an asshead
For years I've suspected it, but today he scribbled something that removes all doubts.
There are certain kinds of cars that, conceptually, just don’t really exist anymore. Like when a company takes a mass-market everyday car an
"After all this, it actually weighed 10 pounds less than the regular B210, too, which helped it hit that 41 mpg highway figure, I’d imagine."
You delude yourself. A 10-lb difference for an economy car that weighs 2000 lb (according to every website I checked) is no difference.
You're also a shit comedian.
"I mean, no rear seat ashtray? Fine, the kids don’t have to smoke all the time. No wiper blade high-speed fin? What are we, sharks, who needs that?"
And none of the Detroit unibodied kwikie-rust steel shitboxes he listed thereafter are really "fuel sippers". Not even the damn Vega. Or the Dodge Miser. In fact, despite 40+ years of the federal and state governments attempting to FORCE manufacturers to improve fuel efficiency, efficient small gas-engine cars are still stuck at roughly the same figures they had in the 1990s. (And they're all disappearing anyway, as your fat-assed readers buy giant SUVs and trucks instead.)
Is the auto industry paying you to grind out insipid happytalk about their jerkwad products, Jason? Do you sleep soundly, knowing that you're a court jester for an industry that doesn't give a fuck what you think or do?
