(CavemanCircus.com)
Friday, June 8, 2018
And It's Going To Continue For A While
MLB attendance for the 2018 season thus far has been well below the Mendoza line. Boasting just 27,328 per game,
attendance is down 6.6% from this date last year and 8.6% overall. You
don’t have to be a sabermetrics savant to know that this is the baseball
equivalent of an 11.50 ERA.
(BroBible.com)
(BroBible.com)
This A Very Good Question
Have Sports Cars Become Relegated To "Side Chick" Status In The Automotive Industry?
In a conversation with a friend the other night he was proclaiming his love for trucks, and while I appreciate them I don't see the need to own or lust for one. In fact, I think that this love affair with SUVs and trucks will come to a screeching halt once oil prices spike again — and they will, in my humble opinion.
It was after I made this point he hit me with one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Essentially they said that trucks are the kings of the road, sedans and coupes are OVER, and only cars like the BMW M2 and Porsche 911 are exceptions because they are effectively "side chicks."
(AutoBlog.com)
In a conversation with a friend the other night he was proclaiming his love for trucks, and while I appreciate them I don't see the need to own or lust for one. In fact, I think that this love affair with SUVs and trucks will come to a screeching halt once oil prices spike again — and they will, in my humble opinion.
It was after I made this point he hit me with one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Essentially they said that trucks are the kings of the road, sedans and coupes are OVER, and only cars like the BMW M2 and Porsche 911 are exceptions because they are effectively "side chicks."
(AutoBlog.com)
Did You Know - Mazda Miata Edition
So The Word 'Miata' Actually Means Something
Leave it to MotorWeek host and OG American video-car-reviewer John Davis to set me straight: “...the name Miata means reward,” he says in the opening standup of the shakedown video that’s now about 27 years old.
Well, OK, this is John Davis we’re talking about, so he said it more like “Mi-hata.”
Pronunciation aside, every forum and other site I’ve looked at concurs with his definition and Miata.net seems to offer the most complete backstory:
(Jalopnik.com)
Leave it to MotorWeek host and OG American video-car-reviewer John Davis to set me straight: “...the name Miata means reward,” he says in the opening standup of the shakedown video that’s now about 27 years old.
Well, OK, this is John Davis we’re talking about, so he said it more like “Mi-hata.”
Pronunciation aside, every forum and other site I’ve looked at concurs with his definition and Miata.net seems to offer the most complete backstory:
Rod Bymaster, Mazda’s head of product planning and marketing for the Miata project back in the early days, claims his “biggest contribution to the project was to have found the word Miata in Webster’s Dictionary, which is defined as “reward in Old High German.”I did drop Mazda a line to confirm it, and even though it’s Friday afternoon and the company’s communications staff is probably all out Miataing themselves by now, spokesman Jacob Brown hit me back and said “yup,” indeed, this is legit.
(Jalopnik.com)
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