I went to the WRC in Alsace last year and there were lots of people racing Evos and STis in the lower classes. The new WRC car requirements (1.6 liter engines) with 2 doors instead of four makes it tricky to really base a competitive production model off of the cars unless Subaru wanted to compete with the Ford Fiesta…

My favorite is the Chrysler Turbine car. Powering a car with a gas turbine spinning 44k RPMs is bonkers and 400 lb/ft of torque was pretty awesome too. It didn't become the future but I love the idea of daily driving a car powered by a giant turbine and I'm glad Chrysler gave it the old college try.

As soon as someone figures out how to turn Sebastian Loeb into a verb.

I would prefer reading about a billionaire's descent into madness via autos than his purchase of a car I can afford. How am I supposed to live vicariously through Zuckerberg if he won't even buy a Pagani?? HOW?!

Also, it is not a tree branch in his car that he is using to change gears. BAN ALL COLLOQUIALISMS!!!!

That gang appears to be using Official Louisville Sluggers® which surprisingly are made in the people's republic!

Yeah I hear you. The Z51 package is basically mandatory and has been purchased with a majority of 'vettes sold so far.

The Corvette still wins the "Optioning Game" against competitor sports cars from pretty handily. You can add 15k to a Corvette quite easily, and 50k to a comparable Porsche just as easily.

Man, I planted our LeMons car into a barrier and felt like shit. I can only imagine what wrecking a real racecar feels like. Sounds like the owners were cool and more power to you for jumping right back into it!

Subsidies are everywhere and 11.5 billion is a drop in the bucket to save a massive company from going under. I'm all for fiscal conservatism but this is one example where I believe the benefit outweighs the costs regardless of if the Cruze is a cool car or a POS.

Your argument implied the reason you wouldn't buy a GM product was because of a loss of 11.5 billion dollars in federal tax dollars. Not purchasing a car because of lack of quality is one thing, not buying a car because of an absurd talking point is another.

From a game theory perspective.

I agree with most of what you're saying but this specific example of bailing out GM allowed the company to remain solvent and continue operations which employ thousands of people directly and contribute to many more thousands on the supplier side. Subsidies such as this one are merely a tool, whether they were used…

I agree with you from a consumer confidence perspective. There is a lot of "I'll never buy anything from Government Motors" BS going around which is unfortunately kicking a decent company while it's down.

GM has a Price to Earnings ratio of 17. Ford has a Price to Earnings ratio of 11. I don't think it matters if John the Plumber wants to invest his $14 a week in a stock as their investments are massively overshadowed by banks, hedge funds and large private investors.

He's a Redskins Nihilist, Donny.

Such avoid. Wow.

Good point. Every car year is roughly the equivalent of 5-10 car years... Someone needs to break the news to the people who will soon be dating octogenarians in this hypothetical scenario.

I'm saying that an anthropomorphized Mclaren P1 is a nerdy girl who is SUPER high maintenance. I wouldn't want to date my car either as a Subaru STi translated to a girl would probably subsist on nothing but Monster energy drinks and have the clap.

She also has super high tech braces that fail every 10,000 bites of food causing you to spend thousands a year at her orthodontist.