So if I hate Mother Gaia, want to crush her beneath my carbon jackboot and have enough disposable income not to sweat gas prices overly much, would this actually be a very good time to buy a used car?

American Racing Torq-Thrust Ds.

Not Grabber Blue, therefore the wrong blue.

This is the absolute dumbest thing I have ever seen. Patina is earned, and there's no conceivable way a less-than-a-year-old car can earn it. There is no plausible way that a new Camaro, by any reasonable means, could have naturally acquired this look. And this is way beyond patina; this is utter crap. This look…

For what it's worth these guys also have a '98 Skyline from one of these movies for sale. That one may be worth the price of entrance to one of the played-way-too-much-Gran-Turismo-and-just-gotta-have-a-Skyline types.

That was more or less my reaction when I saw it.

2. Because God forbid the Cayman / Boxster platform get enough horsepower to show up the almighty 911, establish itself as the inherently superior platform that it is, and send Porsche purists into fits of apoplectic rage that the fastest car from Stuttgart doesn't have a single chromosome of Beetle DNA in it.

Wow, you really have no issue with being branded a heretic, huh

Nibbles hates me - it's a candy-apple red '73 Thunderbird, tubbed out, with a chrome Roots blower sticking out of the hood.

I'm a fan of T-Bird's 1973 Thunderbird from "The Crow." Luxury, power, and complete lack of taste... I'd replicate it if I had the money.

#COTDnominations

A lot of folks around here really need to watch street cars driven in anger more often and get a more realistic perspective on what is, and isn't, a lot of body roll. I've seen Miatas roll more than this on a Solo course. Granted, this isn't all that tight of a course, but still, the Challenger definitely didn't…

Now, this one I happen to like. I know the question was design conceits you hate, but this is one I love. The flaring around the wheel wells is, to me, a brilliant callback to one of M-B's all-time underappreciated greats. It's subtly and tastefully done, but the reference is unmistakable to car nerds.

On a related note, how about the persistent nerfing of the Boxster / Cayman design to keep it below the almighty 911 in the food chain, when it's inherently a superior platform? Not really a design issue, but it definitely bugs me.

I'm guessing in this context "to the rear wheels" is just saying that the car will be rear-wheel-drive... I don't see why they'd release the WHP figure and not the invariably-more-impressive crank HP number. Poor phrasing either way, and I may very well be wrong.

I don't doubt for a minute that you're right about who they're aiming it at, but I still think that not even breaking two bills in horsepower will cripple its appeal to that market. The horsepower war of the last decade has upped the ante; 300 is the new 200, and when you consider what else is readily available at…

...and nothing of value would be lost. All right, I'll go with that. If pricing starts at under $20k, I can see a point to this. Still gonna struggle, I think, considering the glut of S197 Mustangs available on the used market, but people do buy tCs and Fortes, and this looks to be a vast improvement on either of…

I get that that's what it's meant to be. But the problem is, the AE86 hit a spot in the market that no longer exists. The AE86 was cheaper and a better handler than the Mustangs of its day. Well, it's tough to undercut the gazillions of used Mustang GTs out there on price, and while the '80s Mustang was an…

Most people here understand how much fun a slow car can be. But it's been proven over and over again that Jalops are a vanishingly small part of the automotive market, and cars targeted strictly at us don't tend to make money. If they want to make any kind of inroads into the mass market, 197 horsepower is not going…

You can throw all the "LOL 'Mericans" out there you want, but the fact is, in a world with 300+hp Hyundai Genesis... es? Genises? ...eh, whatever and 425hp Mustangs on the market for under $30,000, 197 horsepower is going to be a really tough sell in the US regardless of the weight. If they want to make significant…