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01-30-2013, 05:29 PM
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Ads: I pay you people...wtf
Tell me again why I pay this forum money.....
Every picture is now showing up with a ******* add for a cadillac ATS??
ARE YOU JOKING.
Fix this for subscribers or you are going to be loosing a lot of them.
Every picture is now showing up with a ******* add for a cadillac ATS??
ARE YOU JOKING.
Fix this for subscribers or you are going to be loosing a lot of them.
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01-30-2013, 05:43 PM
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About half the ******* words in this thread are underlined as adds. We are being taken over. If Rick put this many adds on the site when he owned it he would have been sitting at home polishing his Ferrari
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01-30-2013, 06:12 PM
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Aaw! Now Curly & I can't continue our infinite regression loop.
Sidebar: I had no idea what a Cadillac ATS was. Apparently it's a "compact luxury sport sedan," which is a term that seems to cover a lot of ground these days. On the plus side, it's apparently available with RWD, LSD, and a genuine manual gearbox. So that's kind of cool.
Puzzlingly, it ranges in price from $33,095 to $55,005.
That's one thing I always liked about Honda, or Acura to be more precise. I don't know if it's still this way, but 10 years ago, they didn't have options. If you were interested in buying an Integra LS, you got to choose the color and whether or not you wanted an automatic transmission. That was it. If a certain feature existed, it was standard equipment. If it didn't exist, then it wasn't.
Power windows? Standard.
Power locks? Standard.
ABS? Standard.
Ugly cloth seats with some sort of vaguely floral pattern printed on them? Standard.
Sat Nav? Go **** yourself.
I'm sure that any system in which it's possible to increase the MSRP of a vehicle by 66% simply by way of a dizzying array of options has got to be a lucrative business model, especially since the base model is usually pure fiction as far as dealer inventory is concerned. I can't help but be annoyed by the fact that someone would actually pay $55,000 for a four-door GM sedan, though. (Did you know that you can buy an E-class Merc, a 5 series Bimmer or a Cayenne for less than that?)
Sidebar: I had no idea what a Cadillac ATS was. Apparently it's a "compact luxury sport sedan," which is a term that seems to cover a lot of ground these days. On the plus side, it's apparently available with RWD, LSD, and a genuine manual gearbox. So that's kind of cool.
Puzzlingly, it ranges in price from $33,095 to $55,005.
That's one thing I always liked about Honda, or Acura to be more precise. I don't know if it's still this way, but 10 years ago, they didn't have options. If you were interested in buying an Integra LS, you got to choose the color and whether or not you wanted an automatic transmission. That was it. If a certain feature existed, it was standard equipment. If it didn't exist, then it wasn't.
Power windows? Standard.
Power locks? Standard.
ABS? Standard.
Ugly cloth seats with some sort of vaguely floral pattern printed on them? Standard.
Sat Nav? Go **** yourself.
I'm sure that any system in which it's possible to increase the MSRP of a vehicle by 66% simply by way of a dizzying array of options has got to be a lucrative business model, especially since the base model is usually pure fiction as far as dealer inventory is concerned. I can't help but be annoyed by the fact that someone would actually pay $55,000 for a four-door GM sedan, though. (Did you know that you can buy an E-class Merc, a 5 series Bimmer or a Cayenne for less than that?)
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01-30-2013, 06:29 PM
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Sorry guys, Wasn't ready for the ad unit gang bang this afternoon.
On a side note... the Cadillac ATS was my car of the year:
The Ignition Blog2012 Car of the Year » The Ignition Blog
enjoy my smooth silky voice and the best muzak one can acquire free.
-Nolan
On a side note... the Cadillac ATS was my car of the year:
The Ignition Blog2012 Car of the Year » The Ignition Blog
enjoy my smooth silky voice and the best muzak one can acquire free.
-Nolan
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01-30-2013, 06:34 PM
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I'm sure that any system in which it's possible to increase the MSRP of a vehicle by 66% simply by way of a dizzying array of options has got to be a lucrative business model, especially since the base model is usually pure fiction as far as dealer inventory is concerned. I can't help but be annoyed by the fact that someone would actually pay $55,000 for a four-door GM sedan, though. (Did you know that you can buy an E-class Merc, a 5 series Bimmer or a Cayenne for less than that?)
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01-30-2013, 08:41 PM
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Thanks Nolan. Phones and tablets don't have screen space to give away.
As for ads on regular browsers, I haven't see any that I can blame miataturbo.net for, but last week a program called Playtopus got installed (I don't want to talk about how.) Until I uninstalled it I was getting the underlined words mouse-over things and pop ups, impotence, flatulence, etc. As I said, I can't blame that on mt.net.
As for ads on regular browsers, I haven't see any that I can blame miataturbo.net for, but last week a program called Playtopus got installed (I don't want to talk about how.) Until I uninstalled it I was getting the underlined words mouse-over things and pop ups, impotence, flatulence, etc. As I said, I can't blame that on mt.net.
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