My facts are correct. So are yours. Not everyone followed Henry Ford's lead, and not every manufacturer was competing with the same pool of laborers. He only had to compete with employers in the cities where his factories were located.

Once upon a time, the boss man exploited the worker through requiring them to work more than 40 hours per week, in toxic and dangerous workplaces, and forcing them to shop at the company store. OSHA and the EPA oversee the former two now, and they are free to spend their money wherever they want. So, uh, what's the…

All Hail Giugiaro! It doesn't cost more money to design a beautiful and affordable car than it does to design an ugly one. See Golf I, Scirocco I, and a host of other mass produced cars we never got to see on the roads in the States.

You are absolutely correct, sir! It doesn't cost anything more to design a beautiful object than it does an ugly one.

That's a true fact.

1. How do the Germans feel about BMW making bobsleds for the US?

My money is on a bike that's inspired by R90s with the burnt orange or silver smoke paint. Other than that, there's not much to get that excited about. And yes, I've owned four BMW and am an officer in a BMW motorcycle club.

Dumbasses. That's not even remotely how my wife responded when I brought home a motorcycle on two different occasions.

I've got news for 'ya. Steve Martin did an "omlette du fromage" joke that pre-dated "Dexter's Laboratory" by such a long time that DL's use of it is considered an "homage." So there's two French words.

It seems like a normal evolution of TV channels. When it was just "Speed" channel, I could tune in at 2 a.m. and they'd be airing the Corsica Rally from 1975. It was totally car geek, but they couldn't make real money doing that. So now we have Velocity HD running Isle of Man races. How long will that last? Probably…

If you live in Florida, Arizona, Texas, etc., you don't want red or yellow or orange cars because it fades quickly. You don't want black or dark grey or dark green or dark blue or dark maroon because they're too hot. So like, uh what's left? Silver. Light metallic blue. White. Sea foam green. And medium shitty brown.

VW building Porsches in Osnabruck is an affront to my frozen caviar-flavored dacquiri sensibilities. They should outsource it. In fact, they can start by sending me all the parts to build one in my garage.

Miata drivers never have this problem.

Steve McQueen's birthday. Both motorcyclists and car enthusiasts would rally for that. Add in the Hollywood folks. It's really a no brainer.

No car. A trebuchet.

The complaint of the gearheads was that VWs would be watered down and nobody would buy them. Fair enough, except that it only goes to show us that the rest of America really only buys cars on price. Fahrvegneugen? More like not going far for fig newtons.

So if Kia and Hyundai are following Toyota, Nissan and VW up the ladder, and MINI and Fiat have returned further up the ladder, then who will be at the "entry level?"