Since Jalopnik is so eager to cover all things Tesla, is there any reason the story about the company paying off it's federal loans early has not gotten even a blip? The loan story was the main news in the very same release that this story is from. For all the splash this site will make about a flat tire on Tesla,…

Nice Price!

Or you could just tell people you're a tool and have nothing interesting to add. That's free.

Nope. There is no difference. What you're referring to are sequential turbos. The bi-vs-twin thin is a matter or choice by the Germans on their cars. More linguistics than technical bits.

No argument that cut slicks are illegal but the article isn't anywhere near definitive about whether the tires used are in fact cut slicks.  All we know is that the tires are numbered differently like <i>some</i> slicks and that the pattern is very different from most street tires.  It could very well be some barely…

Is the tire legal to own on the street?  yes?  Moving along.

By Deadspin standards you're actually too late. 

Peter!!!  I don't think there were many electronics available to stuff into the car in the first place.  Folks were still changing their gears with a foot pedal and a stick like savages.

Except for having to drive on different roads, the whole list reads like a high end German luxury sedan.  Depreciation, random meltdowns, the "general car default" light, all of it could be applied to any of the 12 cylinder German sedans.

Cheap, +1

That's easily the most cost effective advertising that company has ever done. If this was Billy Nobody form West Somethingshire they would probably have found a way out of this.

It will be an interesting market to watch when the Chevy SS sedan comes out. I bet the people who aren't doing it solely for the Pontiac badge will jump ship and the price will collapse.

Except fot the GXP versions which are still selling in the $27k range for decent ones and almost $40K for pristine ones.

Ticklefight!!!

But if they did that to all their cars they would just make the problem with all their cars looking alike even worse. The Rapide especially had nowhere else to be modified. The spoilers wouldn't have gone over well and it already had all the led bling at introduction. I honestly think they looked at the Rapide and…

You and I can argue until we're blue but the actors or footballers or sheik buying it, a new gimmick and some bling go a long way. Looks only go so far when the competition is constantly introducing new cars and updates.

I've had a couple of internet spats over this issue so I'll ask the resident Aston expert. Assuming that leaving it alone was completely out of the question, is there a direction they could have taken that wouldn't have pissed some people off? Without changing major body panels I don't think they could have done…

So awesome when it came out.

R230 Mercedes SL. Nothing really wrong with the post 2008(pictured) model but it went from holy shit gorgeous when it was introduced to "nice car". (Original in reply)

Suddenly the X3 looks much better. Maybe that was the plan all along. If people wanting extra space but not a wagon complain about the x3's premium, you show them the GT and they pay right up for an X. It's the only logical reason for this to exist.