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I think it’s intriguing on paper—400 hp with torque-vectoring all-wheel drive is nothing to sneeze at. I’d like to see it in person, but could be more intrigued when the inevitable dirt-cheap lease is announced two weeks after the car hits the market with a resounding thud.

Gotcha. What year F-body? Even that last of those were incredibly crude appliances, as if the single most important feature of the interior was finding the lowest possible bid on materials.

Hah! Nice screen name. What are the reported curb weights of ‘88 Turbo Coupe and ‘89 S/C? Just curious as I had read that the weight difference was far greater, particularly given that the Fox platform was lighter all around.

I should have added that I put a ton of miles on a manual, S/C back when it was just out. Not…

The real shame is that the Turbo Coupe, despite being down on power from the later SC, was more fun to drive. The SC turned into a bloated beast and allegedly got a bunch of people canned/moved at Ford in 1990 or so, knowing they were stuck with the car for years to come.

Except you missed the single most important point about non-Suburban-sized three-row SUVs, which is that, in addition to small seats out back, the second row is often compromised.

Mostly agreed. Big Luc Besson fan here, and Jean Reno absolute owns this movie. I saw it in the theaters and then when I bought the DVD a couple of years back, I was disappointed in the director’s cut (?) that included Mathilda going on hits. Totally ruined the innocence part of her character for me. I guess this is…

Wait, what Alain Prost party? Nobody told me and now I have a sad.

My favorite Trophée Andros master and all-time most calculating F1 driver and I missed his birthday? Well, shit. Right. Shit is the word for it.

With a full tank of electrons, it probably doesn’t quite hit the three-ton mark, but with that massive load of owner smugness, it absolutely blows through the legal load limit of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Clearly, your definition of “everyone” is not the same as well, everyone else’s.

Since when has sports car racing filled the stands or made ANY money in the U.S. the last 30 years or so?

The problem with the S7 is that is has the unfinished look and one-at-a-time construction feel of an actual race car.

A supercar should be what the Veyron and McLaren F1 were—absolutely docile and streetable when getting groceries and rip-snortingly insane when the hammer goes down.

The S7 was only good at the latter.…

Mystic Seaport, eh? I grew up in Mystic, but it has been a good dozen years or so since visiting the museum, which was a regular field trip destination in every grade. Of course, those trips were a looooooong time ago.

I still despise the fact that the U.S. Coast guard sunk that thing. It is the work of genius and should be in the freaking Smithsonian.

They all need to get rid of that freaking iPad on top of the dash. Whose idea was that? What the hell? And you seemingly can’t get a German sedan without one these days.

I should add that the ceramic touch surfaces are really supremely amazing, particularly in cold weather. They got that right.

I sure as hell hope so. That’s why I plan on ordering one, so I can have my cake and eat it to, all year long. Otherwise, something-something-cross-over-something will be the next car because I don’t want to pay BMW/Audi/M-B money for AWD.

Of course, that statistic was completely pulled out of thin air. It made front-page news because the organization that invented it (the bullshit stat) made a big splash during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Someone coined the nonsense term “Abuse Bowl” and it stuck briefly.

When the few reporters who actually…

You beat me to the punch. You can pull branding stunts all day long, but without any worthwhile, fresh product, your brand will die. Saturn had the very best ratings from customers and GM just let all of that goodwill die on the vine. Scion has been an experiment since day one. Starving it of product killed it off.

Unfortunately, I can give this rationally thought out, internet-rage-free and well written response but a single star.

So, then, should we deny health care (private or publically financed; “we all end up paying”) to anyone who made poor diet decisions? Or smoked? Or drank?