More people care about the new Ford GT than last night's episode of Girls

By Ryan Felton

Jan 12, 2015 at 12:54 pm

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So, we don't cover the auto beat around here that much, and during a few weeks when the whole auto journalism world is in Detroit for the North American International Auto Show, it's hard to really offer much new. But we do like to gauge what stories emerge from that cloistered auto world into the larger cultural one, and it looks like the GT is it, if you use Girls and the readership of Gawker as a barometer of cultural relevance.

(via Patrick George of Jalopnik)

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Ryan Felton

Ryan Felton was born in 1990 and spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Livonia. In 2009, after a short stint at Eastern Michigan University, he moved to Detroit where he has remained ever since. After graduating from Wayne State University’s journalism program, he went on to work as a staff writer...