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Welcome to The Morning CVT Hum where we put all the best auto news that's fit for Kinja in this new annoying !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! format. Because you don't have time to troll the news headlines yourself because you're too busy trying to find out where your post conversations went.
1st Moderately Sloped Hill Where You Wish You Got That 6-Speed Instead: People With Cars Are Bad For People With Cars so It's Good That Fewer People With Cars Are Doing Car Stuff
Blah blah blah Car Culture blah blah blah Commuting Culture blah blah blah who wants to be stuck in a car anyway? blah blah blah you can be stuck in the subway instead, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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2nd Stoplight Where That Little Geo Metro is Pulling Ahead of You: Acura Promises Mountains After a Molehill Move
Blah blah blah Acura blah blah blah spiraling down the drain blah blah blah !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! But Good News, Everyone! Blah blah blah Acura blah blah blah Honda blah blah blah split blah blah blah separate product development, but somehow everyone will fail to mention that without its own dedicated engineering department, R&D department and separate coffers worth billions the next generation ILX is still going to be a mediocre FWD Civic underneath.
3rd Visit to the Pump And You Realize You're Getting the Same Fuel Mileage As Your Old Car: Blah Blah Blah GM
Blah blah blah GM blah blah profit margins blah blah They're Coming Back, Baby! Blah blah y u no buy SS? ;_; Blah blah Gasp! GM kill people? GM kill people! ;_; !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (PDF warning).
4th Time Your S.O. Complains About Cabin Noise From the CVT: Labor Woes!
Blah blah to union or not union blah blah Toyota raise blah blah wait did they say $26 for a whole month? For real? Is this Japan or China?
5th Visit to the Dealership Garage: We Did Mention Death to Commuting Culture Right? Oh yeah, we did. Let's do it again anyway.
Blah blah blah why are you still commuting with your car like a car-hating loser? Blah blah blah !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Oh yeah, we did. In this edition of Morning CVT Hum no less. Well, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Reverse Into The Mailbox: The Death of The Great American Motorist
On this date in 1998, John P. Everyguy traded in his Malaise-era C3 for a Ford Explorer. Sacrificing a smog-era smallblock putting out less than 200 horses for something with more than two seats is always a tragedy, but is further magnified when some guy does it for AWD and the same fuel economy numbers.
Neutral While Rolling Backwards Down a Hill: When Are You Going To Finally Give Up Your Commuting Culture, Guys? Seriously, right? I mean, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , when are you finally going to do it?
Obviously meant in good jest. Just for the record I actually consider myself a GM fanboi so please don't take any actual accusations of murder seriously. Image credits !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! MemeGenerator.net and anywhere else I forgot.