They're not niche over here in the UK. The defender sells well to people who need a truly capable car, the Evoque, Discovery, and even Range Rover and RR sport are fairly common, as is the Jaguar XF. Of course, it helps that here they all come with efficient diesel engines.

A sponsor of Shanghai Fashion Week for the past four seasons, Peugeot is seeking to carve a niche for its DS line in China, which McKinsey & Co. has projected to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest luxury vehicle market by 2016. Automakers from General Motors Co.'s Cadillac to Nissan Motor Co.'s Infiniti have…

Fair enough, but is it street legal? Race cars are a different animal entirely, especially endurance racers where fuel consumption and reliability is crucial.

The E30 is a great chassis. To properly exploit a great chassis, you need a great petrol engine. Diesels don't cut it, no matter how much of a fetish this site has for diesels.

This is ridiculous. If this is how NASA spends their time then it's time to start firing people. You make a space suit that does it's job and is safe, to hell with the aesthetics. It's not a work of art, it's a device that someone's life depends on.

America doesn't answer to capitalism. They answer to money, and nothing else.

This is the Jag, I'm 100% sure of it. I'd put money on it.

Capitalism at it's finest. No, wait...

Tesla Model S. Very intuitive, and having a massive screen makes it so much easier to see what's going on.

An enormous semi could also refer to, er, something else. This is the most hilarious headline I've read in a long time.

Oops, wrong button. Sorry.

The keyword there it tech blog. Any engineer with any sense at all will use metric units. The US is halfway to metric already. Engine capacity measured in litres, nutrition facts in grams and kilocalories, money is metric, you consume litres and millilitres of wine and soda, and America's favourite, metric ammunition…

I rode in a Seat Altea on Tuesday, and it was well built, seemed to drive well, and was a generally good car. But the interior materials were a tiny bit cheap, and the design was fairly spartan. VW quality? Yes. VW features and materials? Not quite.

As long as they keep a fairly affordable naturally aspirated model that handles well, I'm happy. Also, make it rev to 9,000 rpm, please?

If by most people you mean most Americans, fair enough. But the rest of the world uses the metric system. And America's population is not nearly the majority of all people.

You've got issues if you use my feet as a unit of measurement.

Cheers, that's the most useful thing anyone's posted in response yet.

I need that car.

Doesn't make it any easier to visualise. I have no real mental concept of what a foot is, but can easily gauge a metre.

It all depends on what you're used to. I'm used to something quite big.