Is the week over yet? It’s been an interesting one, complete with blisteringly quick professional drag racers, a blustery Internet tidal wave of opinions over a staged street race somewhere in the North, and one of the loudest bangs heard in China in quite some time. Here’s your order of Scrapple for the week, pan-fried, coated with only the finest week-old bread crumbs and served up with a washtub of hot sauce for flavor. Enjoy!

1. Ford’s medium-duty truck production returns to Ohio.

Ford’s Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, Ohio has been chosen to be the factory to produce the Ford F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks after pumping in $168 million dollars into the facility and hiring on about a thousand workers. The move, which brings Ford’s big-boy truck line out of Mexico and into the United States, was the result of a 2011 Ford/UAW bargain. At least they can prove that this wasn’t a quick deal made to shut Donald Trump up for a minute or two.

2. Dodge Is Going Back To PCP…er, wait a minute…

Just when I thought I had figured out all of the double entendres of Mopar’s High Impact Color palette naming system, I stumble across the hidden point of Plum Crazy Purple. How this color is popular is beyond the author, but FCA is putting the color out there again for 2016. This time, the color will be available on SXT Plus and above on Challenger, and SXT with the optional 20″ wheels and above on Charger. Just remember: “Plum Crazy Purple”. Not “Statutory Grape”. The dealership might take offense with that one.

3. Cadillac’s de Nysschen: “I don’t need you anymore, DAD!”

Johan de Nysschen hasn’t made it a secret that he wants to separate Cadillac’s image from the overall view of General Motors, and that, at least, we can understand. But in a move that looks quite a bit like a dog biting the hand that feeds, de Nysschen went on record recently, saying that Cadillac will “a far higher degree of autonomy and self sufficiency,” as reported by Autoblog. Additionally, he is pushing to separate Cadillac’s financial reports, the creation of a unique dealer network, and most puzzling, the creation of an incentive program that focuses on building the brand instead of moving vehicles, with the intent on raising Caddy’s status from the “expensive Chevrolet” reputation they have been trying to shed towards being in the same breath, or better, than BMW, Mercedes, and others of the same ilk.

4. Laguna Seca is still fighting a potential ISC takeover bid

The current operators of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, SCRAMP, have been in charge of the track’s operations since 1957, but ever since March 2015, the Monterey County, California Board of Superviors have shifted SCRAMP’s role into a monthly contracted situation while Monterey County effectively started courting International Speedway Corporation (ISC) in a bid for them to come in and take over Laguna Seca. However, SCRAMP isn’t going down with a fight, and via a timeline they released, claim that Monterey County has been not only vague about their dealings with ISC, but in general have shut SCRAMP out of the deal altogether. Jalopnik took a look at this and we agree with their approach: unless SCRAMP had seriously shot themselves in the foot regarding financial issues with the county, something seems totally wrong with this picture.

5. Of all the stupid $#!+ I’ve ever seen on the Internet…

Seriously…how stoned was the person that thought this was a good idea? Someone in an office in Stuttgart has been screaming his head off, utilizing the most angry forms of the German language heard outside of a Rammstein concert. And for good reason.