I think its a case of chicken and egg.

Ie, people dont view the interesting links room as there arent any interesting links, and cause people dont view the room no one posts any in there, by moving threads over it encourages use of the room.

Personally I think they should just split up GD into:
Car GD
Other GD

As I dont mind keeping track of 2 rooms but dont want to search the whole site for general threads, and if I click "new posts" I get all the nerdy "Rs Turbo room" posts which makes a mountain to wade through.

Fundamental problem though, is we all want different thigns so whatever they do they are fucked and will get moaned about the poor bastards, including if they do nothing